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The key insight of alexis de tocqueville's tocqueville on democracy was that:
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American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
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In its decision in MulCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
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The second bank of the U.S. Was constitutional.
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By the time of Jacksons presidency, politics:
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Often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
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The Dorr war:
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Divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.
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Andrew Jacksons inauguration was:
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A large, rowdy event.
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The nullification crisis:
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Involved the fears of some slave holders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
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The controversy over Peggy eaton:
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Helped to enhance Martin Van Buren's influence during the Jackson administration.
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Under the Missouri compromise of 1820:
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The remaining Louisiana purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
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Democrats in the 1830's generally believed that:
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New corporate enterprises were suspicious.
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The term Era of good feelings refers to the period of American history when:
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There seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration.
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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
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The spoils system.
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In the 1830's, Andrew Jackson believed all the following about the second bank of the U.S. Except that:
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The bank did not allow for the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand.
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The national political parties of the second American party system were:
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Democrats and Whigs.
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In the early to mid 19th century, property, qualifications for voting:
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Continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated he states politics.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
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Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
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In his Cherokee nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice john Marshall stated that:
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Indians were wards of the federal government.
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A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:
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That both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.
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How does the bank war demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of presidency?
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He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.
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Hard money in the 1830's referred to:
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Money backed by government guarantees.
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The force act of 1833:
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Gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.
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Many of the members of Jacksons kitchen cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:
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Newspaper editors.
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The panic of 1819:
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Prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors.
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The second bank of the U.S. Was created:
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By congress in 1816, with the support of president Madison.
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Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:
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Revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the union.
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In the presidential election of 1840:
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The Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by democrats.
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The Monroe doctrine:
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Declared the Americans off limits for further European colonization.
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As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for the activist state, which called for all of the following except:
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Free homesteads for settlers on western public land.
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In the first half of the 19th century, paper money:
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Promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.
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In response to he demand for internal improvements, president James Madison:
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Call for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals.
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Which of the following did not happen during the election of 1828?
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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the corrupt bargain of 1824.
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The nullification crisis ended:
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With a compromise tariff.
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The panic of 1837:
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Was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.
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In the wake of the war of 1812, younger republicans like Henry clay and John Calhoun:
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Continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nations economic independence required a manufacturing sector.
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By the 1830's, the term citizen in America had become synonymous with the right to:
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vote.
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Which is not true about the Whigs?
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Their strongest support came from the lower northwest and the southern backcountry.
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What was president Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal governments relationship to banking?
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He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.
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Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830's as he most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?
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John C. Calhoun.
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