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Who was the leader of the
Transcendental movement?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What idea was Henry David
Thoreau advocating in his essay, “On
Civil Disobedience?
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Passive resistance
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Name 2 people who were later influenced by the ideas of Henry David
Thoreau.
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Gandhi & Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Which poet advised Americans to write as Americans instead of copying Europeans?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote “The Last of the
Mohicans,” and what was it
about?
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James Fenimore CooperThe French & Indian War
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How did the artists from the Hudson River
School portray nationalism?
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By painting landscapes
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Who was the leader of the Hudson River
School of Artists?
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Thomas Cole
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Who was the most successful of the
Second Great Awakening revivalists?
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Charles G. Finney
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Who was the mental health
reformer?
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Dorothea Dix
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According to Dorothea Dix,
should criminals be punished or rehabilitated?
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rehabilitated
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Alex de Tocqueville visited the US several times.
What topics did he write about?
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Reform movements (prison & abolition) and democracy
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What did John Marshall decide in McCulloch v.
Maryland?
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The Bank of the US is constitutional but to tax the bank is unconstitutional.
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What kind of policy is
the Monroe
Doctrine?
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Foreign policy
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What slogan is associated
with the Monroe
Doctrine?
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“Hands off the Western Hemisphere”
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What did the Monroe Doctrine
mean for European countries?
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No more colonization in the Western Hemisphere (Americas)
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What were the 3 parts of
Henry Clay’s American System?
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A protective tariffA bankInternal improvements (roads, canals, etc)
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What was the “corrupt bargain”
according to Andrew Jackson?
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Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams made a deal in order for Adams to win in the Election of 1824
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What did Southerners call the
Tariff of 1828?
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The Tariff of Abominations
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Who benefited from the Tariff
of 1828?
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Northern Industries
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What event did the Tariff of
1828 lead to?
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The Nullification Crisis
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What was the spoils system?
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Giving government jobs to political party supporters
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What is another name for the spoils
system?
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Patronage
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Who wrote the SC Exposition and
Protest and what did it allow a state
to do?
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John C. Calhoun
A state could nullify or cancel a federal law
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What was the SC Exposition and
Protest written in response to?
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The tariff of 1828
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What were the “pet banks?”
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State banks that Andrew Jackson deposited federal funds into once he vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the US
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What is universal suffrage?
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It meant that all white males could vote and that they no longer had to own property.
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How does universal
suffrage differ from voting
rights during the Federalist Period?
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With universal suffrage, you no longer had to own property in order to vote.
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Why was the Gag
Rule passed?
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To prevent abolitionist petitions from being read in Congress
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Why did the Gag Rule upset many people, especially
Northerners?
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Northerners believed the Gag Rule threatened their freedom of speech & press.
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What is “Manifest Destiny?”
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The nation’s undeniable fate to possess the entire continent.
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Which treaty ended the Mexican War?
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The Treaty of Guadalupe
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What became the border
between the US & Mexico after the Mexican
War?
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The Rio Grande River
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Which country did Mexico give up its
claim to in the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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Texas
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What land did the US gain from
the Mexican War?
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California, New Mexico & the entire Southwest
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What is the Mexican cession?
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All the land the US gained from the Mexican War
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What did the Wilmot Proviso
propose concerning
slavery?
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It prohibited slavery in the Mexican Cession.
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Did the Wilmot Proviso become
law?
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No
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How would the US benefit from
the Gadsden Purchase?
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It would provide the land needed for a transcontinental railroad.
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How was slavery to be decided in a
territory according the Senator Lewis
Cass?
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By the people
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Which state became a free state in the Compromise
of 1850?
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California
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Excluding California, how was slavery to
be decided according to the Compromise of
1850?
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By popular sovereignty.
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Allowing the people to decide on an issue, such as
slavery, is known as?
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Popular Sovereignty
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What is nativism?
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A movement to ensure that native-born Americans are treated better than immigrants
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The Nativist party is also known by 2 other names. What are they?
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The American Party and the Know-Nothings
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What set the Nativist Party apart from the
established political parties?
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The Nativists were anti-immigrant & anti-Catholic.
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