American History I Unit IV Notes

A practice especially common with Jackson which rewarded loyal voters and campaigners with government jobs thereby repaying them for their patronage and also filling the bureaucracy with those of the winning party.

A) Nullification Contraversy
B) Southern Code of Honor
C) Spoils System
D) Manifest Destiny

The tarrif of 1828 (tariff of abomination) pitted Jackson against JC Calhoun and exposed the sectional defferences, particularly southern opposition to tarrifs.

A) Nativism
B) Spoils System
C) Phrenology
D) Nullification Controversy

Jacksons Opposition to rechartering the federal bank led him to help create state banks to be depositories of federal revenue and most often choosing them based on their loyalty to the Democratic party.

A) American Renaissance
B) Pet Banks
C) Presidios
D) Southern Code of Honor

Jackson's hand picked successor to the Presidency, elected in 1836 from the Democratic Party.

A) Martin Van Buren
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Horace Mann
D) William Lloyd Garrison

A new political party created during Jackson's second term as president and consisting of his opponents from North and South to include southern advocates of nullification.

A) Presidios
B) Southern Code of Honor
C) Pigdin
D) Whigs

Father of public schools and influential reformer who advocated the creation of public education to instill common civic and moral values and combat ignorance in the population.

A) Gabriel Prosser
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Hinton R. Helper
D) Horace Mann

Northern reformers and northern advocates of the national bank, commercial farmers, merchants, and anti-masons.

A) Southern Code of Honor
B) Nativism
C) Whigs
D) Prenology

Firey white abolitionist who published The Liberator, a newspaper advocating "immediate emancipation" for slaves.

A) William Lloyde Garrison
B) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C) Martin Van Buren
D) James K. Polk

Organizer of the seneca falls convention and author of the Declaration of Sentiments calling for women's equality and woman suffrage; Seneca Falls Convention - representative of the reform movement and the consensus among reformers of the need to address women's rights.

A) Gabriel Prosser
B) Denmark Vesey
C) Martin Van Buren
D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Popular health movement of the antebellum period which stated that a person's personality could be revealed by studying and interpreting the bumps on one's skull.

A) Phrenology
B) Nativism
C) Pigdin
D) Presidios

The creation of a uniquely American literature and art which included Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Cooper and Alcott.

A) American Renaissance
B) Nativism
C) Whigs
D) Southern Code of Honor

Wrote realistic fiction whose themes exposed the conflicting emotions of humans and the sometimes tragic results of their failures.

A) James K. Polk
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Hinton R. Helper

Published Impending Crisis of the South calling upon non slaveholding white Southerners to abolish slavery in their own interests.

A) Hinton R. Helper
B) William Lloyd Garrison
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Denmark Vesey

Societal expectations and behaviors of southern whites used as a means of dealing with insults and affronts; led to a higher rate of violence.

A) Whigs
B) Nativism
C) Southern Code of Honor
D) Manifest Destiny

A Christianized Virginia slave responsible for planning a slave revolt, he was betrayed and executed for the conspiracy.

A) Gabriel Prosser
B) Denmark Vesey
C) James K. Polk
D) Frederick Douglass

A South Carolina slave who bought his freedom then planned a slave revolt for which he and his followers were executed.

A) William Lloyd Garrison
B) Denmark Vesey
C) Gabriel Prosser
D) Horace Mann

A rather unorganized method of helping southern slaves escape from the South through a network of safehouses; often aided by former slaves like Harriet Tubman and Josiah Henson.

A) Slave Resistance
B) Underground Railroad
C) Slave Escape Routes

Former slave and articulate abolitionist who advocated immediate abolition and worked toward freedmen's citzenship rights.

A) Josiah Henson
B) Denmark Vesey
C) Gabriel Prosser
D) Frederick Douglass

Ideology which developed in direct response to early 19^th century immigration; based on the idea of native born white Americans that Irish immigrants took jobs from them, fear of a Catholic conspiracy and resistance to their Democratic Activity.

A) Presidios
B) Bible Riots
C) Pigdin
D) Nativism

Violence born of nativism in Philadelphia where Whig anti-immigrants attacked Irish Catholics over the liquor regulations and Bibles used in schools.

A) Religion Controversy
B) Bible Riots
C) Immigration Act
D) Philidelphia v. Immigration

Spanish forts or garrisons constructed in the Southwest to protect Catholic missions.

A) Alamo
B) Presidios
C) Overland Trail
D) Pigdin

Unique Language of American born slaves which allowed them to communicate with one another and develop their own culture.

A) Pig Latin
B) Ebonics
C) Pigdin

An abandoned mission in Texas that became the site of a Texas defeat at the hands of Santa Anna and the Mexican army in the Texas Revolution.

A) Alamo
B) Brejo
C) Mexican War
D) Presidios

The path taken by American migrants to the far west - Oregon and California; extremely harsh conditions characterized the trip usually made by groups of families who worked cooperatively.

A) Oregon Trail
B) California Trail
C) Trail of Tears
D) Overland Trail

Phrase which describes the antebellum philosophy that god had ordained the U.S. would eventually and inevitably own the continent from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.

A) Manifest Destiny
B) Underground Railroad
C) American Renaissance
D) Nativism

Democrats "Dark Horse" candidate elected president in 1844.

A) James K. Polk
B) Horace Mann
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Martin Van Buren

He Orchestrated the Mexican War by provoking a border dispute in Texas from which he hoped to gain both California and Mexico; he also intended to settle the territorial dispute in Oregon by dividing it at the 49^th parallel.

A) William Lloyd Garrison
B) Frederick Douglass
C) James K. Polk
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne

A movement for more democracy in American Governmet in the 1830's

A) The American Movement
B) Democratic Revolution
C) Democratic Revolt
D) Jacksonian Democracy

Who was charged by Jackson and his supporters for Corruption?

A) Abraham Lincoln
B) John Q. Adams
C) Martin Van Buren
D) Teddy Roosevelt