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GML Chapter 10 – Democracy in America (1815–1840)
Review Questions
1.
John Quincy Adams was an ardent expansionist. What actions did he support to help the United States
become the “first and mightiest nation in the world”?
2.
How did Andrew Jackson represent all of the major developments of the era: a self-made man, the
westward movement, the market revolution, and the growth of democracy?
3.
How did the expansion of white male democracy run counter to the ideals of the founders, who
believed government should be sheltered from excessive influence by ordinary people?
4.
What were the components of the American System, and how were they designed to promote the
national economy under the guidance of the federal government?
5.
How did the Missouri Compromise and the nullification crisis demonstrate increasing sectional
competition and disagreements over slavery?
6.
According to Martin Van Buren, why were political parties a desirable element of public life?
7.
What were the major economic, humanitarian, political, and social arguments for and against Indian
removal?
8.
What actions by Andrew Jackson prompted charges of tyranny and led to the growth of the Whig
Party?
9.
Explain the causes and effects of the Panic of 1837.
Freedom Questions
10.
How did freedom become more democratic in the period, and what were the limits to that
development?
11.
How did the three-fifths clause of the Constitution enter into the debates over the expansion of slavery
into Missouri?
12.
Considering economic policies and the balance of power between national and local authority, how did
Whigs and Democrats differ in their definitions of American freedom and its relationship to
government authority?
13.
Whigs denounced Andrew Jackson as a tyrant. What actions did they see as a threat to American
freedom and why?
Key Terms
14.
the Dorr War (p. 373)
15.
Democracy in America (p. 374)
16.
“information revolution” (p. 375)
17.
“infant industries” (p. 378)
18.
American System (p. 378)
19.
internal improvements (p. 379)
20.
Second Bank of the United States (p. 379)
21.
Panic of 1819 (p. 380)
22.
McCulloch v. Maryland (p. 381)
23.
Missouri controversy (p. 381)
24.
Monroe Doctrine (p. 384)
25.
“spoils system” (p. 391)
26.
Eaton affair (p. 396)
27.
Exposition and Protest (p. 396)
28.
Force Act (p. 397)
29.
Indian Removal Act (p. 398)
30.
Worcester v. Georgia (p. 399)
31.
the Bank War (p. 401)
32.
“hard money” v. “soft money” (pp. 402-403)
33.
“pet banks” (p. 403)
34.
Panic of 1837 (p. 403)