Chapter 10 Self-Quiz 1

. Following the War of 1812, wageworkers and their advocates felt that

. The first cross-trade citywide labor organization was the __________, established in Philadelphia in 1827.

. The __________ led the way in expanding white male suffrage.

. As suffrage was extended to all white males, it was _________ African Americans.

. The Masonic movement originated as an organization to

. All of the following men epitomized the National Republican Party except

. The bill to create the Second Bank of the United States, endorsed by the National Republicans led by Henry Clay, which came before Congress after the War of 1812,

. When the election of 1824 was held, __________ claimed a majority of the popular vote.

. All of the following accusations were made during the presidential campaign of 1828 except

. Andrew Jackson was elected by

. Following the election of Andrew Jackson, white Georgians invalidated the constitution of the Cherokee nation within Georgia, proclaimed the Cherokees subject to the authority of Georgia, and surged onto to Cherokee land looking for gold. President Jackson responded by

. In 1830 Congress passed and President Jackson signed the Removal Act, which provided for an exchange of lands with the Native Americans residing in any of the states or territories. This act called for the Indians' removal to lands

. In order to dismantle the Second Bank of the United States, which he viewed as symbol of wealthy easterners' power and privilege, President Jackson asked the secretary of the treasury to

. Believing that the Tariff of 1828 presented unfairly inflicted injury on southern states, John C. Calhoun wrote a justification for the theory of __________, under which states might declare particular federal laws null and void within their borders.

. In the summer of 1831, an African American driver and preacher named __________ led a slave uprising in Virginia that lasted for two days and resulted in the deaths of 57 whites.

. Over the course of the early nineteenth century, the price of land per acre and the size of minimum-permitted individual purchase had fallen steadily; thus, small land buyers faced few obstacles to acquiring land in the new states of the Union.

. By the second decade of the nineteenth century, farm labor's dominance had peaked and nonfarm waged labor had become more common.

. Territorial expansion raised the question of suffrage because settlers who owned little more than the mortgages on their land saw themselves as the chief embodiment of the republican spirit; they wanted their votes to count as much as the votes of the wealthy.

. Early in the nineteenth century, people began to view chartered corporations in a positive light as visible symbols of equal opportunity for all Americans.

. On his last day in office, President Madison signed a bill creating a federal fund for internal improvements (such as transportation initiatives) which had passed with great confidence in Congress.

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