5227223460 | Why was the the American Electorate in the 1820s expanded? | To include and allow more white males to vote other than just rich land owners | 0 | |
5227223461 | What did the efforts to to expand voting rights result in during 1840? | In two governments claiming control of the state | 1 | |
5227223462 | What was still being used in Rhode Island? | The old colonial charter | 2 | |
5227223463 | Who gathered at a convention to draft a constitution and submit it to popular vote? | A lawyer and activist named Thomas Dorr and a group of followers | 3 | |
5227223464 | What did the group of activists form? | A people's party | 4 | |
5227223465 | Was the constitution drafted by Dorr approved? | Yes, overwhelmingly. | 5 | |
5227223466 | How did the existing government of Rhode Island react to Dorr's constitution? | They refused to accept it and submitted their own | 6 | |
5227223467 | Was the document submitted by the existing legislature favored? | No, it was defeated | 7 | |
5227223468 | What were Dorr followers referred to as? | Dorritoes... SIKE LMAO Dorrites | 8 | |
5227223469 | What did the Dorrites begin to do? | They began setting up a new government under their constitution and Dorr as governor | 9 | |
5227223470 | In 1842, how many governments were claiming legitimacy in Rhode Island? | Two | 10 | |
5227223471 | What did the Dorr rebellion help do? | Expand the suffrage | 11 | |
5227223472 | In 1800, how were electors chosen? | Legislature had chosen the electors in 10 of the states while the people elected them from only 6 | 12 | |
5227223473 | In 1828, how were electors chosen? | They were chosen by popular vote in every state except South Carolina | 13 | |
5227223474 | After the War of 1812, where was the support for the idea of political party greatest at? | New York; they favored the idea of political parties the most. | 14 | |
5227223475 | In the 1830s, how were political parties generally regarded as? | As a desired and essential part of the democratic process | 15 | |
5229899925 | In the 1830s, what was one argument that was in favor of political parties? | The idea that a permanent political opposition made parties sensitive to the people's will | 16 | |
5230299874 | According to Andrew Jackson's theory of democracy, who should be treated equally? | All white male citizens. | 17 | |
5230299875 | What is the oldest political party in the United States? | The Democratic Party | 18 | |
5230299876 | What did Andrew Jackson believe about the power of the federal government during his presidency? | That it should be reduced | 19 | |
5230299877 | How did President Andrew Jackson sought to apply his democratic principles first? | By targeting federal office holders | 20 | |
5230299878 | What refers to giving out jobs as political awards? | The "spoil system" | 21 | |
5230299879 | In in 1832, what did supporters of President Jackson do in order to make the nominating process more democratic? | They held a national convention | 22 | |
5230299880 | Who is John C Calhoun? | Andrew Jackson's vice President | 23 | |
5230299881 | Who is Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State? | Martin Van Buren | 24 | |
5230299882 | What did Calhoun and Van Buren have in common? | They were both ambitious and rivals for Andrew Jackson's attention and favor | 25 | |
5230299883 | Who came up with a theory/doctrine of nullification? | John C Calhoun | 26 | |
5230299884 | From who did Calhoun draw his ideas from? | Madison and Jefferson and their Virginia and Kentucky resolutions | 27 | |
5230299885 | What does Calhoun site in the doctrine? | He cited the 10th amendment to the constitution | 28 | |
5230299886 | What did Calhoun argue and his doctrine? | He argued that since the federal government is a creation of the states, the states are the one with the final say of the constitutionality of federal laws. (In other words, since the states pretty much made the government they get to decide for themselves if a law is constitutional) | 29 | |
5230299887 | What would happen if the state found that Congress had passed and unconstitutional law? | The state would hold a special convention and declare the federal law null and void within the state | 30 | |
5230299888 | What was the idea behind the doctrine of nullification? | To notify the 1828 tariff and was an alternative to possible secession of the South Carolinians | 31 | |
5230299889 | Did the doctor go if Acacian help Calhoun's standing within the new administration? | No, in part because he had a powerful rival in Martin Van Buren. The doctrine was not enough to put him ahead | 32 | |
5230299890 | What was part of the reason Van Buren beat out Calhoun? | Because Van Buren if that was some stuff in both the The official cabinet and the "kitchen cabinet" of Andrew Jackson's administration | 33 | |
5230299891 | What was another reason as to why Calhoun was defeated? | Due to the Peggy Eaton a fair/scandal | 34 | |
5230299892 | How did the scandal originate? | Peggy O'Neale was rumored of a possible affair between John Eaton and her even before her husband died | 35 | |
5230299893 | What happened after Peggy O'Neale officially married John? | She became a cabinet wife, but the wives did not accept her and this made Andrew Jackson furious | 36 | |
5230299894 | Why didn't make Jackson furious that Peggy wasn't allowed into the circle? | Andrew Jackson's late wife had also been a victim of public slander | 37 | |
5230299895 | How did Van Buren play a role? | February didn't have a wife holding him back and consequently took advantage of situation and befriended Eaton | 38 | |
5230299896 | What was the significance of the Peggy Eaton scandal? | Andrew Jackson chose Van Buren to succeed him in the White House, ending Calhoun's dreams of the presidency | 39 | |
5230299897 | As a controversy over notification of the tariff grew, what debate went on? | A great debate over the sale of public lands began in the United States Senate | 40 | |
5230299898 | Who was involved in the debate? | Robert Y Hayne and Daniel Webster | 41 | |
5230299899 | What did Hayne argue? | That's slowing down the sales of Lance to the west was away for the east to retain its political and economic power | 42 | |
5230299900 | Who did Hayne believe were victims of tyranny from the east? | The west and south | 43 | |
5230299901 | Ultimately, what did Hayne gope to gain? | Support against the tariff | 44 | |
5230299902 | What did Webster consider Haynes argument? | As an attack on federal authority | 45 | |
5230299903 | What did this debate results in? | Rivalry between Andrew Jackson and John C Calhoun | 46 | |
5230299904 | What was Andrew Jackson's a famous quote on the matter? | "Our federal union-it must be preserved." | 47 | |
5230299905 | What was Calhoun's famous quote on the matter? | "The union next to our liberty most dear." | 48 | |
5230299906 | When and why did the nullification crisis come to an end? | In 1833 because Andrew Jackson authorized the use of military force to see the acts of Congress or obeyed | 49 | |
5230299907 | What was the United States primary goal and policy towards the Indians in the early 1800s? | To acquire the land is occupied by the Indian tribes | 50 | |
5230299908 | Why was the Black Hawk war notable? | it was notable due to the vicious behavior by the American military | 51 | |
5230299909 | Although the Supreme Court found in favor of the Cherokee tribes in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia, what did President Jackson decide? | That's with the court cannot enforce the order | 52 | |
5230299910 | What was Jackson recalled saying? | "John marshal has made his decision," "now let him enforce it." | 53 | |
5230299911 | What was the result of the United States government is Indian policy in the 1830s and 1840s? | Nearly all American Indian societies were moved to the west of the Mississippi | 54 | |
5230299912 | Of the "five civilized Tribes" what was the tribe that best resisted the pressures of removal? | The Seminole Indians | 55 | |
5230299913 | What was the first of the "five civilized Tribes" to be removed to the west? | The Choctaw tribe | 56 | |
5230299914 | And 1820s, under who's management was the bank of the United States financially sound and profitable? | Nicholas Biddle | 57 | |
5230299915 | In the 1830s, the bank of by United States was opposed by who? | By BOTH soft money (paper money) advocates and hard money (silver and gold) advocates | 58 | |
5230299916 | Who did Andrew Jackson agree with? | The hard money advocates | 59 | |
5230299917 | I need teen 30, what did President Jackson vetoed and why? | He vetoed a federal subsidy to the proposed Maysville Road because the road was not part of any system of interstate commerce | 60 | |
5230299918 | Who sought to use the debate over the bank of the United States primarily to boost his presidential election? | Henry Clay | 61 | |
5230299919 | What resulted in President Andrew Jackson abolishing the bank of the United States? | I nation with an unstable banking system for many years | 62 | |
5230299920 | What did Jackson do in order to weaken the bank? | He went through several secretaries before finding one who would help him | 63 | |
5230299921 | When was the bank of United States charter due to expire? | 1836 | 64 | |
5230299922 | Who had the support of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster? | Nicholas Biddle | 65 | |
5230299923 | What controversy became the leading issue in the 1832 election? | The controversy over the bank | 66 | |
5230299924 | What was the financial system to replace the bank of the United States? | The "sub treasury" system created by Martin Van Buren | 67 | |
5230299925 | What Supreme Court ruling reflect the Jacksonian ideas of democracy and economic opportunity? | Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) | 68 | |
5230299926 | What two parties were political opponents the face each other in the mid-1830s? | Jacksonian Democrats and Whigs | 69 | |
5230299927 | What party had the strongest support from planters, farmers, mechanics, and labors and supported territorial expansion? | Jacksonian Democrats | 70 | |
5230299928 | What did the Whigs call President Jackson? | "King Andrew I" | 71 | |
5230299929 | Who supported the Whigs? | Wolfie Southern planters, New England manufacturers, aristocratic Americans, and evangelical protestants | 72 | |
5230299930 | What did the political philosophy of the Whigs favor? | If favored expanding the power of the federal government | 73 | |
5230299931 | What demonstrated the Whigs desire for the party to attract the largest possible number of votes? | Their support for the anti-Mason party | 74 | |
5230299932 | During the two dick in history, who won the presidency two times? | The Whigs | 75 | |
5230299933 | What party was the least successful are uniting behind a strong national leader? | The Whigs | 76 | |
5230299934 | Who were the Locofocos? | The radical Democrats | 77 | |
5230299935 | What did the presidential election campaign of 1840 see? | It's saw the first influence of the "penny press" in politics | 78 | |
5230299936 | What did the penny press do? | It carried news to large audiences of workers and trades people | 79 | |
5230299937 | Who won the election of 1840 and for what party? | William Henry Harrison; the Whig party | 80 | |
5230299938 | Who died of pneumonia after a month in office? | William H Harrison | 81 | |
5230299939 | Who took over after Henry Harrison died? | His vice President, John Tyler | 82 | |
5230299940 | Who was John Tyler? | A Whig who had once been a democrat | 83 | |
5230299941 | What did the Webster-Ashburton Treaty do? | It's settled the Aroostook War | 84 | |
5230299942 | What did the treaty result in? | In new territory being added to United States | 85 | |
5230299943 | What's the treatt include? | Included a British pledge not to interfere with American ships | 86 | |
5230299944 | What significantly improved Anglo-American relations? | The Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 87 | |
5230299945 | In 1841 what government support of the rights and the freedoms of slaves on the Creole? | The British | 88 | |
5230299946 | In 1836 who wins the presidency and why? | Martin Van Buren because the political opposition offered multiple candidates | 89 | |
5230299947 | What resulted in a severe financial panic? | Jackson's "specie circular" (the specie circular basically required payment for land to be in gold or silver) | 90 | |
5230299948 | What did the distribution act that Congress passed in 1836 do? | Required the federal government to disburse it surplus funds to the states | 91 | |
5230299949 | What require the federal government to disburse it surplus funds to the states? | A distribution act passed by Congress in 1836 | 92 |
AP US History Chpt 9 - Jacksonian America Flashcards
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