Question 1

What was the "second party system"? Why did it come into existence? What were its basic characteristics?

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Question 2

What were the reasons for the controversy over the Bank of the United States? Explain both the pro-bank and anti-bank positions. What does the controversy reveal about the American economy, attitudes about business and banking, and the relationship between the economy and the political system?

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Question 3

How did politics become more democratic between 1824 and 1840? Make sure you discuss changes in voter participation, political parties, and campaigning.

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Question 4

Discuss the reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s. What were the major movements? Why did the movements begin? Who were their leaders? How successful were they in achieving their goals?

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Question 5

Analyze the unique qualities of the 1824 election. Who were the major candidates? What were the major issues? What was the campaign like? How did the president actually get selected?

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Question 6

How did Andrew Jackson's policies and the Panic of 1837 help launch and solidify the Whig Party?

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Question 7

Examine the Second Great Awakening and discuss its significance to American history. Who were the leaders? Why did the Awakening occur? How did it influence American society in the 19^th century?

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Question 8

Women hold their first national women's rights convention in 1848 at

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The first national women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. This event marked the beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

Question 9

Charles Finney is often considered the "father of modern revivalism" because he

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Charles Finney is considered the "father of modern revivalism" because he introduced special revival techniques and reached out to all Protestant denominations, emphasizing human agency in the process of conversion.

Question 10

How did the reliance of the American economy on cotton as its main export make it vulnerable to poor wheat harvests in Britain?

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Question 11

The main objective of the American Colonization Society was to

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The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, aimed to free African-American slaves and transport them back to Africa, leading to the establishment of Liberia as a colony for freed slaves.

Question 12

Did the reform movements aim primarily at making Americans more free or more orderly?

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Question 13

Joseph Smith presented the Book of Mormon as

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Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates that he said were given to him by an angel named Moroni. He presented the book as a historical record of ancient American peoples, specifically focusing on their Christian beliefs and practices. The other options do not accurately describe the content or purpose of the Book of Mormon as presented by Joseph Smith.

Question 14

How did the democratization of American politics contribute to the rise of Andrew Jackson?

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Question 15

What new assumptions about human nature lay behind the religious movements of the 1820s and 1830s?

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Question 16

How did attitudes toward poverty and crime change in the antebellum era?

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During the antebellum era, there was a shift in thinking where reformers began to attribute poverty and crime to environmental factors such as poor home environments, lack of discipline, and bad parenting, rather than innate sinfulness or the rise of the factory system.

Question 17

In what ways did American attitudes toward poverty, crime, and insanity change during the first half of the nineteenth century? Why did those changes occur, and what were the results of such changing attitudes?

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Question 18

How did the women's rights movement evolve out of other reform movements, especially the abolition movement? Why did the women's rights movement make only slow advances?

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Question 19

Discuss how religious movements began to remake American society during the Age of Jackson.

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Question 20

Sectional controversy began to grow during the 1820s and 1830s. Discuss how the following issues aroused sectional differences: internal improvements, protective tariffs, and nullification.

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Quiz 10: Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform