CHAPTER FOUR STUDY QUESTIONS
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Why was the election of 1824 important?
What was the corrupt bargain?
What were some of John Quincy Adams’ goals and plans as president?
What was the Coffin Handbill? How does that connect to the significance of the
election of 1828 (it was the first time that __________ entered into presidential
campaigns)?
5) What was Andrew Jackson’s Spoils System?
6) What was Jeffersonian Republicanism?
7) What was Jacksonian Democracy?
8) What was the Indian Removal Act?
9) Why were the Cherokee considered a “civilized tribe?”
10) What is the significance of Jackson’s response to Marshall’s rulings in Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia?
11) What was the Trail of Tears?
12) How does nullification connect to the Tariff of 1828 and 1832?
13) What did John C. Calhoun do in response to the Tariff of 1828?
14) What was the Force Bill?
15) What did Jackson do to the Second Bank of the United States?
16) What was Jackson’s Specie Circular?
17) How did wildcat banks get the chance to spring up?
18) What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion, and how does it connect to the black codes?
19) What did Whigs believe in?
20) What’s Martin Van Buren’s legacy?
21) What’s William Henry Harrison’s legacy?
22) Why was John Tyler called the president without a party?
23) What made the creation of a market economy possible?
24) What are boom and bust cycles?
25) Why was the cotton gin created, and what happened as a result?
26) What did the use of interchangeable parts lead to?
27) What did use of the power loom lead to?
28) What was the Lowell system?
29) What was the significance of the Erie Canal?
30) What effect did the use of steamships have?
31) How did the American government respond to privately owned railroads having
different gauges?
32) What was the result of the train age?
33) What advantage did industrialization give the North over the South?
34) Compare farming in the North, Midwest, and South.
35) What was Manifest Destiny?
36) Describe Texas’s journey towards statehood.
37) What was the Gold Rush?
38) Describe how city life was in the North.
39) What was the cult of domesticity?
40) How did immigration from Germany and Ireland affect the North?
41) Compare commerce/trade in the North to the South.
42) What was southern paternalism?
43) What percentages of white southerners owned slaves?
44) When was importing slaves from Africa banned in America?
45) What was life like for landless whites in the South?
46) What was life like for free blacks in the South?
47) Who were the 49ers?
48) Who were the squatters?
49) What was the Second Great Awakening in response to?
50) What was the burned-over district?
51) What were temperance societies?
52) What was the Female Moral Reform Society?
53) Who was Dorothea Dix?
54) Who were the Shakers?
55) Who were the Transcendentalists of Brook Farm? What did they believe in?
56) Who were the Hudson River School painters?
57) Who were the Mormons?
58) Who wrote the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments of Women, and when did
they do so?
59) Who was Horace Mann (HORSE MAN!)?
60) Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
61) What was the gag rule?
62) Who was Frederick Douglas?
63) Who was Harriet Tubman?
64) Who was Sojourner Truth?
65) How many boards could the Mongols hoard, if the Mongol hordes got bored?