Ch 10 Study Guide
McCulloch v. Maryland
Spoils system
Andrew Jackson’s nickname
1840s Percentage of white male voting population
When Thomas Jefferson wrote, “This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with
terror,” he was referring to
Monroe Doctrine
Description of Andrew Jackson’s inauguration
Era of Good Feeling
mid-19th century voter qualifications
Missouri Compromise
Dorr War
Reasons for split between Jackson and Calhoun
Changes to voter qualifications by 1860
Andrew Jackson’s beliefs regarding the Election of 1824
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
By 1830s term “citizen” meant
Women writers benefited from
Primary reason women and blacks largely excluded from expansion of democracy
1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in
Wake of War of 1812, younger Republicans such as Henry clay and John Calhoun
Pres. Madison’s response to demand for internal improvements
Second Bank of the US
1st half of 19th century, paper money
Panic of 1819
Reason for second Missouri Compromise
Both Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821
Independence movements in Latin American between 1810 and 1822
John Quincy Adams
Controversy of presidential election of 1824
Martin Van Buren
Pres. John Quincy Adams’ comprehensive plan for an activist state
Description of politics in the Age of Jackson
Characteristics of election of 1828
National political parties of the second American party system
Beliefs of Democrats iin the 1830s
Description of Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet
Characteristics of Whigs
“Exposition and Protest”
Most prominent spokesman for right of nullification
Nullification crisis
Force Act of 1833
Peggy Eaton
Debater who stated that the people, not the states, created the Cosntitution
Indian nation that fought with the US army from 1835-1842 to resist removal to the West
Cherokee nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
“hard money”
Panic of 1837
President of Second Bank of the US in 1832
How the Bank War demonstrates that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency
William Henry Harrison’s 1840 presidential campaign
Actions taken by Pres. Tyler
Pres. Van Buren’s solution as to how to handle the federal government’s relationship to banking
American System
Presidential election of 1840
Significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine
Trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s
Key focus of political controversy during the Age of Jackson
Paradoxical features of Andrew Jackson’s public career
Significant developments during the decade following Jackson’s presidency
Key difference between the Democrats and Whigs during the Jackson years
Political party that organized to oppose Pres. Jackson
Andrew Jackson’s political party
Alexis de Tocqueville’s vision of democracy
“Suffrage was “the first mark of liberty, the only true badge of the freeman,” define suffrage
Pres. Madison’s plan for America
Ways women became increasingly active in the public sphere in the early 19th century