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61 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following statements about education in the early national period is not true?
A) As late as 1815, only Jefferson's Virginia had a comprehensive public school system. B) Religious groups ran most schools in the South and Mid-Atlantic. C) Private academies proliferated in New York and New England that were secular and elitist in outlook. D) In the South, slaveowners generally tried to prevent their black workers from learning to read or write. |
As late as 1815, only Jefferson's Virginia had a comprehensive public school system.
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Which schoolmaster and lawyer first published the best-selling American Spelling in 1783?
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Noah Webster
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Which Anglican clergyman penned the eulogistic Life of Washington in 1806 (and invented the story of Washington and the Cherry Tree)?
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Mason Weems
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Which of the following is not true of the Unitarian movement?
A) They rejected Calvinist predestination. B) They rejected Christian morality. C) They rejected the divinity of Christ. D) They rejected the idea of the Trinity. |
They rejected Christian morality.
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Where was the first "camp meeting" of the Second Great Awakening held in 1801?
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Cane Ridge, Kentucky
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Which of the following is not true of the Second Great Awakening?
A) It helped create a broad popular acceptance of Christian diversity. B) It appealed strongly to women, Native Americans, and blacks. C) It reemphasized the Calvinist doctrine of predestination. D) It provided a vehicle for establishing a sense of order and social stability in new communities. |
It reemphasized the Calvinist doctrine of predestination.
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What Seneca prophet was directly influenced by the Second Great Awakening?
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Handsome Lake
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Who built the first modern factory in America at Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790?
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Samuel Slater
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Which of the following was not a consequence of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?
A) The total cotton crop increased eightfold in a decade. B) The fledgling textile industry of the North gained steam. C) Slaves made redundant by the gin were manumitted. D) The southern economy became focused on "King Cotton." |
Slaves made redundant by the gin were manumitted.
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Which of the following did not play a part in the birth of the steamboat era?
A) Nicholas J. Roosevelt B) Robert Fulton C) James Wilkinson D) Robert Livingston |
James Wilkinson
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What percentage of the non-Indian population lived in towns of 8000 or more in 1800?
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3%
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Who is responsible for designing the layout of Washington, DC?
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Albert Gallatin
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Which of the following did not occur under President Jefferson?
A) The national debt was cut in half. B) All internal taxes were abolished. C) The armed forces were doubled. D) West Point was established. |
The armed forces were doubled.
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What was the Supreme Court's determination in Marbury v. Madison?
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Marbury had a right to his commission, but the Court could not force Madison to deliver it.
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What was the Jefferson administration's policy toward the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Overture?
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He did not recognize the new government, and considered it a bad example to the world.
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What was the Jefferson administration's policy toward the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Overture?
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He did not recognize the new government, and considered it a bad example to the world.
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How much did the United States pay Napoleon for the Louisiana Purchase?
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$15 million
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Who served as guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition?
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Sacajawea
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Who did the Essex Junto turn to for support in their secessionist plans for New England?
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Aaron Burr
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What ill-advised legislation did Jefferson enact in response to the Chesapeake-Leonard Incident?
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Embargo
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At what battle did William Henry Harrison break the growing Indian alliance under Tecumseh and the Prophet?
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Who led the American naval forces to victory at the Battle of Put-In Bay?
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Oliver Hazard Perry
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In what city was Francis Scott Key when moved to compose the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
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Baltimore
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Why did the Hartford Convention go over so badly with most Americans?
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The convention occurred almost simultaneously with Jackson's victory at New Orleans and the end of the war.
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What did the Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 stipulate?
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Mutual disarmament on the Great Lakes
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Camp meeting
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A staple of the Second Great Awakening, camp meetings were fervent revivals lasting several days and characterized by great outpourings of religious emotion.
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Charles C. Pinckney
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Federalist candidate for President who lost to Thomas Jefferson in 1804.
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Clermont
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Passenger steamboat launched on the Hudson River in 1807.
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Deism
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Religious philosophy rooted in the Enlightenment. Deists accepted the existence of God, but they considered Him a remote building who, after having created the universe, had withdrawn from direct involvement with the human race and its sins.
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Embargo
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An act that prohibits ships from entering or leaving a nation's ports.
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Hartford Convention
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1814 meeting of New England states in which secession was considered.
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Impeachment
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The bringing of charges against a governmental official by the House of Representatives. Removal from office cannot come from impeachment alone. A trial must be held in the Senate, and upon conviction there, the offender may be removed from his or her post.
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Jeffersonian democracy
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Not actually a democrat, in the classic sense of the word, Jefferson believed that the masses were capable of selecting their own representatives and, if properly educated and informed, would select the best and the wisest to govern. Once these were chosen, however, this "natural aristocracy" should be allowed to govern without interference from those who selected them.
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Judicial review
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The power of a court to review a law, compare it with the Constitution, and rule on if it is constitutional or unconstitutional (whether it does or does not conform to the principles of the Constitution). Judicial review began in the United States after Justice Marshall’s decision in "Marbury v. Madison".
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Judith Sargent Murray
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Writer whose 1784 essay defended the right of women to equal education.
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Marbury v. Madison
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1803 Supreme Court case that established the principle of "judicial review."
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Noah Webster
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Connecticut schoolmaster and lawyer who penned a widely used dictionary.
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Noble Savages
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View that Native Americans were uncivilized but not necessarily uncivilizable.
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Non-Intercourse Act
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Act passed by Madison which opened trade with all nations but England and France.
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Oliver Hazard Perry
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American naval officer who defeated British forces at Put-in-Bay in 1813.
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Patronage
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The control of political appointments assumed by the victors in an election--the "spoils" of victory, which the victors hand out as rewards to their followers; hence the practice became known as the "spoils system."
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Pierre L'Enfant
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French architect responsible for the design of Washington, D.C.
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Robert Fulton
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Inventor whose advances in steam-powered navigation led to the creation of the "Clermont".
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Rush-Bagot Agreement
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1817 pact with England which provided for the mutual disarmament of the Great Lakes.
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War Hawks
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Group of determined young congressmen who pushed for a conflict with England or Spain.
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Washington Irving
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New York writer whose popular folk heroes included Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.
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William Henry Harrison
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Governor of Indiana Territory who crushed Indian forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe. He became the Whig candidate for President in 1840.
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Second Great Awakening
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a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, which expressed Arminian theology by which every person could be saved through revivals. It enrolled millions of new members, and led to the formation of new denominations.
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Albert Galatin
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He was an important leader of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and its chief spokesman on financial matters and opposed the entire program of Alexander Hamilton. He also helped found the House Committee on Finance and often engineered withholding of finances by the House as a method of overriding executive actions to which he objected.
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Marbury v. Madison
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The landmark decision helped define the "checks and balances" of the American form of government.
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McCullough v. Maryland and the constitutionality of the bank.
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This fundamental case established the following two principles:
i. The Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government. ii. State action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government. |
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Gibbons v. Ogden and Congressional control of commerce
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- the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Supported the growth of monopolies protected by the federal government.
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Dartmouth College V. Woodward* – property rights
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The decision settled the nature of public versus private charters and resulted in the rise of the American business corporation.
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Burr conspiracy
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a suspected treasonous cabal of planters, politicians, and army officers led by former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. According to the accusations against him, Burr’s goal was to create an independent nation in the center of North America and/or the Southwest and parts of Mexico.
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“peaceable coercion” and the embargo
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An embargo is the partial or complete prohibition of the movement of merchant ships into or out of a country's ports, in order to isolate it.
i. Embargo to all foreign sea ports crippled the economy. ii. Then revised to only exclude British and French. iii. Then later only British |
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War of 1812
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a military conflict fought between the forces of theUnited States of America and those of the British Empire
i. Causes - The Americans declared war in 1812 for a number of reasons, 1. including trade restrictions, 2. impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, 3. British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, 4. and the humiliation of American honor. |
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War Hawk
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is a term originally used to describe members of the Twelfth Congress of the United States who advocated waging war against the United Kingdom in the War of 1812. The term has evolved into an informal Americanism used to describe a political stance of being for aggression, by diplomatic and ultimately military means,
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Tecumseh
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was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. He grew up in the Ohio country during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, where he was constantly exposed to warfare. On side of the British
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Hartford Convention
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The Hartford Convention was an event spanning from December 15, 1814–January 4, 1815 in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed
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Battle of New Orleans
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The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.[7][8] American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory America had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase
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Treaty of Ghent
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An agreement negotiated in Ghent, Belgium, and signed on December 24, 1814, by Great Britain and the United States to end the War of 1812. Peace was established on the status quo ante bellum. It included the concession to the United States of all British territory in the American Northwest, which enabled American expansion
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