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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The Rise of Democracy (1820-1840)

Multiple Choice


1	An irony of the decades after 1820 was that:
		A)	the United States was becoming more stratified economically while developing a political system that stressed equality.
		B)	more people in the United States had the chance to get rich while at the same time they had fewer opportunities to participate in politics.
		C)	farmers who had previously been engaged in subsistence agriculture became the richest group in America.
		D)	poor people often voted for wealthy candidates, while rich people tended to support candidates who were common men.


2	Many Europeans who traveled to the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century:
		A)	expressed surprise that Americans' manners were not much different from the manners of Europeans.
		B)	found that Americans treated each other rudely, but they treated foreigners with deference and respect.
		C)	were favorably impressed by the way Americans treated all people with politeness and respect.
		D)	were often shocked by the rudeness and poor manners of Americans.


3	All of the following were democratic reforms of the 1820s EXCEPT:
		A)	the popular election of presidential electors.
		B)	the emergence of nominating conventions.
		C)	the use of secret ballots.
		D)	the elimination of property requirements to hold office.


4	In the presidential election of 1824:
		A)	John Quincy Adams won re-election to a second term.
		B)	the Whigs defeated the Democrats, who backed Andrew Jackson.
		C)	the House of Representatives chose the president, electing the candidate who came in second in both the popular and electoral votes.
		D)	John Calhoun finished second in the popular vote and became vice president.


5	To prevent removal, the Cherokees:
		A)	appealed to the Supreme Court.
		B)	preserved their traditional way of life.
		C)	waged a costly war against the United States.
		D)	followed the lead of Black Hawk.


6	During the Jacksonian era, free blacks in the North:
		A)	could not vote in any state.
		B)	were subject to segregation.
		C)	found jobs in minstrel shows.
		D)	were subject to the same laws as whites.


7	In the face of economic hardships during the 1820s, South Carolinians increasingly blamed their problems on:
		A)	the federal tariff.
		B)	high income taxes.
		C)	the Republican party.
		D)	Henry Clay.


8	Calhoun's theory of nullification:
		A)	advanced the idea of a perpetual union.
		B)	was never put into operation because the southern states opposed it.
		C)	argued that the Union was a compact of sovereign states.
		D)	upheld the right of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution.


9	The Second Bank of the United States:
		A)	was opposed by business leaders because it restrained economic growth.
		B)	was controlled by the federal government.
		C)	used its power to drive all state bank notes out of circulation.
		D)	used its power to regulate the amount of credit in society


10	Jackson destroyed the national bank by:
		A)	refusing to continue to deposit federal funds in it.
		B)	precipitating an economic panic in 1833.
		C)	getting Congress to pass a new law authorizing him to withdraw all federal funds from it.
		D)	issuing the Specie Circular refusing to accept paper money.


11	When a depression began in 1837, Van Buren responded by:
		A)	lifting restrictions on state bank notes in order to increase the number in circulation.
		B)	issuing the Specie Circular.
		C)	chartering a new national bank.
		D)	calling for establishment of an independent Treasury.


12	The presidential campaign of 1840 had special significance because it:
		A)	demonstrated the importance of party principles in carrying a national election.
		B)	marked the final transition from deferential to egalitarian politics.
		C)	restored deferential politics to the American electoral system.
		D)	showed that appealing to the common man did not work.

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