Which 2 parties went against each other in the election of 1800?
Federalists and Republicans
The Election of 1800 ended up being a tie between which 2 candidates?
Jefferson and Burr
Because of the tie in the Election it 1800, which house decided the winner?
House of Representatives
What was the result of Gabriel's Rebellion?
Gabriel and his followers were hanged and Virginia made harsher slave laws
What got in the way of Jefferson being able to get rid of the navy?
The Barbary pirates kept taking American merchant ships
What was the conclusion of Marbury v. Madison?
The Supreme Court can invalidate laws
What does strict construction mean?
That the Constitution should be interpreted very tightly
Why could the Louisiana Purchase be considered unconstitutional?
It says nothing in the Constitution about the power of the President to purchase land
Why did Jefferson want free trade in the world?
The trade would keep America from building its own stuff
Why did the Embargo Act not benefit Jefferson's plan to make America focus solely on farming?
People started making their own manufactured goods
What is the most common cause that people give for the War of 1812, though Green argues that the causes were more complicated?
Britain's impressment of American sailors.
What was notable about the War of 1812?
It was the first war that America declared
How does Tecumseh's quote relate to what we learned about Native Americans opinions on land ownership?
Tecumseh thinks it is absurd to own land because Native Americans didn't believe in land ownership
Who was a supporter of the War of 1812 in the US (the Warhawks)?
Henry Clay, southern and western states
How did the Battle of Tippecanoe contribute to the War of 1812?
Americans received reports that the British were supporting Tecumseh
What was NOT one of Great Britain's advantages?
They knew the terrain better
What WERE Great Britain's advantages?
Bigger Navy, many American soldiers were drunk and lazy, and they had more money
What was one of America's advantages?
Britain was busy fighting Napoleon
What happened to the White House during the War of 1812?
The British set fire to it
What resulted from the War of 1812?
Native Americans lost more territory
What was an effect of the Hartford convention?
The Federalist party dissolved
There was only one political party in the US during the era of good feelings, which one was it?
Democratic-Republicans
Whose America was the market economy most like?
Alexander Hamilton
What canal connected the Hudson river to the Great Lakes?
The Erie canal
Factories originally relied on running water for power, but during the market revolution, factories begin to use...?
Steam power
A major economic advantage during this time was the ____, which meant people bought part of the company (they are called shareholders), so if they failed the shareholder would not go broke.
Limited liability cooperation
Work in factories was measured by?
Clock
The Lowell textile mill in Massachusetts, employed, primarily...?
Young single women
How many people moved west of the Appalachian between 1790-1840
4.5 million
What is the phrase used by John O'Sullivan which meant it was God's will that US would spread through the North American continent?
Manifest destiny
First women became the source of labor for factories in the east, but more often it became __ who filled these jobs.
immigrants
By 1829 most states gave the right to vote to...?
All white men
What is the American system?
A program to build a strong infrastructure in the US (canals, roads, banks...)
Who actually wrote the Monroe doctrine?
John Quincy Adams
Which two states were created in the Missouri compromise?
Missouri and Maine
What did all presidential candidate have to do in the 1820 election and after?
Campaign
Who won the election of 1824, I selected by the house of representatives?
John Quincy Adams
Opponents of Andrew Jackson, form their own political party, known as the...?
Whigs
South Carolina attempted to nullify what?
tariffs
Who ruled in favor of the Cherokee nation when they sued for relocation?
The Supreme Court
Jackson's fiscal policies resulted in...?
One of the worst economic depressions in American history
John Green describes utopian societies as groups who attempt to...?
Withdraw from society
Reform society's, especially those in religion, or attempted to make a ___ society.
Perfect
Compulsory education came about to help the...?
Poor
Which African nation was founded by and for former American slaves?
Liberia
Radical, abolitionists believed slavery...?
Was a sin
The gag rule stated that members of Congress could not speak or read in/to Congress about...?
Slavery
Republican motherhood, relied on American women to raise their sons to be productive...?
Citizens
The "cult of domesticity" stated a woman's place was in...?
The home
What woman attempted to reform asylums and prisons?
Dorothea Dix
The women's right to vote movement started because of the wish to restrict or prohibit...?
Alcohol
Most 19th century suffragettes were...?
Middle class
How many years after slavery ended did women get the right to vote?
50
How much of the world's cotton came from the American south?
3/4
True or false: the north and south both profited economically from slavery?
True
Slavery continued and grew in America, partially because of the economy. However, people defended it as a positive good. In reality, slavery, pure and simple, was based on...?
Racism
For owners to keep slaves from rebelling they would beat, rape, and whip many of them, essentially depriving them of positive human qualities. Otherwise ____ them.
Dehumanizing
What was the most successful slave revolt in history?
Nat Turner's Revolt
Maria Stewart was a notable...?
Writer
Maria Stewart and her husband lived in Boston and were a part of the...?
Black middle class
Who is a black activist and philosophical leader?
David Walker
Who does David Walker specifically call out as being complicit in slavery and it's brutality?
White Christians
William Lloyd Garrison was...?
A newspaper editor in famous abolitionist
Maria Stewart's work was pivotal to the...?
American anti-slavery movement
True or false: Maria Stewart was a revolutionary figure in history because she was a woman who spoke out in public to a mixed race crowd, speaking about abolition of slavery and feminism.
True
True or false: the idea of Intersectionality is that people in a position of power, create a space for people who have less power, and give them the influence to be heard and represented
True
Which of the following groups did NOT live west of the American settlements prior to the popularization of the manifest destiny?
Irish
Which US state was NOT part of northern Mexico?
Massachusetts
Which president "poked" other nations to turn over more land to the US?
Polk
Which of the following is NOT true about the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
It was ineffective in ending the Mexican-American war
Anti-immigrant anti-catholic sentiments that spread in the 1800s were known as...?
Nativism
The political party that formed because of nativism was known as...?
The know nothing party
Which of the following is NOT true about the population of California from 1848-1860?
It was comprised mostly of young men playing football for the 48ers
How did the California state government discriminate against nonwhites in the 1850s?
People of other ethnicities would not testify in court, people of other ethnicities would not vote, American Indians were removed from land that had mineral value, and American Indian orphan children were sold as slaves
The conditions of the compromise of 1850 included...?
Enacting a harsher fugitive slave law, banning slavery in Washington DC, admitting California as a free state, and deciding the status of remaining territories through popular sovereignty
According to John Green, what made the Civil War inevitable?
slavery
What danger did free African-Americans face under the fugitive slave law?
Being arrested & forced into slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
The idea that people (the citizens) should vote on decisions such as allowing slavery
After all the conflict in Kansas did it eventually become a free or slave state?
Free state
According to Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney, African-Americans were entitled to...?
No rights
Who hoped to capture guns from a federal arsenal and lead a raid against slave owners?
John Brown
True or false: John Brown's raid was a success.
False
How many states seceded from the US after Lincolns election?
7
In the 1830s, about what percentage of states still had slaves?
50%
Which of the following was NOT a reason Dred Scott felt he was experiencing freedom?
His bedroom was no bigger than a king size bed
What WERE the reasons Dred Scott felt he was experiencing freedom?
He could work for other people, his master would leave him for long periods of time, and he met his future wife
Why does Dred sue for his freedom?
He was afraid of his family getting taken away from him
Why did Dred Scott believe he would win his case?
The belief of doctrine called once free, always free since he had visited and lived in a free territory he should always be free
Why did Dred Scott lose the case?
Chief Justice Taney said that Scott was property and had no rights
About how many Americans died in the Civil War?
Between 700,000 and 800,000
What years did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
Four of these states with slavery DID NOT leave the union, but one did. Which one did? (And also held the capital of the confederacy)
Virginia
If the war were really about the differences in economic means or states' rights, the war should have started earlier during the Nullification Crisis - under what president?
Andrew Jackson
What portion of the South's population was enslaved?
about one-third
Who was the general for the union army?
Ulysses S. Grant
What city do the union capture August of 1864?
Atlanta
Who won the presidential election of 1864?
Abraham Lincoln
The emancipation proclamation freed slaves in...?
The states in rebellion (the confederacy)
How many former slaves in free black men joined union forces?
180,000
Lincoln ACTUALLY helped end slavery with the passage of the...?
13th amendment