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Ch. 6 Review (The Spirit of Reform)

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  • What is the spoils system?
    appointing people to government jobs based on party loyalty
  • Which president pushed the Indian Removal Act through Congress?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote __________.
    Declaration of Sentiments
  • Prior to Jackson, who chose the presidential nominees?
    Congress
  • Which Native American group suffered under what came to be known as the "Trail of Tears?"
    Cherokee
  • Who was the next president after Andrew Jackson?
    Martin Van Buren
  • Where were the Cherokees originally from?
    Georgia
  • What voting qualification was eliminated in the early 1800s?
    property ownership
  • Which major work did Ralph Waldo Emerson write?
    Nature
  • Who suggested the idea of nullification?
    John C. Calhoun
  • Which new political party formed in the mid-1830s to oppose Jackson and the Democrats?
    Whig
  • Which of the new religions did NOT believe in Hell, and thus ALL would be saved?
    Universalist
  • What is temperance?
    moderation in the consumption of alcohol
  • Who "Americanized" the English language by changing the spellings of words?
    Noah Webster
  • Approximately how many Cherokees died on the "Trail of Tears?"
    4,000
  • Who was the first woman to earn an M.D.?
    Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Why did South Carolina threaten to secede from the Union in the 1820s?
    tariffs being passed
  • Which reformer taught content to women which was originally intended for just men?
    Catherine Beecher
  • The first ever teacher training school (aka a "normal school") was...
    Framingham State University
  • Who started the Mormon religion?
    Joseph Smith
  • In what way did Henry David Thoreau protest the government in regards to the Mexican-American War?
    not paying taxes
  • Which escaped slave started his own abolitionist newspaper and wrote an autobiography?
    Frederick Douglass
  • Who wrote the "Remember the Ladies" letter?
    Abigail Adams
  • According to transcendentalists, we are born knowing __________.
    everything
  • When was the Indian Removal Act passed?
    1830
  • Who won the Election of 1828?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Which two reform movements had members who participated in BOTH groups, although there was some conflict between the two at times.
    women's rights and abolition
  • Who was the leader of the Second Great Awakening?
    Charles Grandison Finney
  • Which reformer used her home as a stop on the Underground Railroad?
    Lucretia Mott
  • Which religion did most Irish immigrants belong to?
    Catholic
  • Who was the editor of "The Dial," a popular Transcendentalist magazine?
    Margaret Fuller
  • Who took over as president once William Henry Harrison passed away?
    John Tyler
  • Who was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?
    Harriet Tubman
  • What was the real name of the "Know-Nothing Party?"
    the American Party
  • Who helped form the Massachusetts Board of Education?
    Horace Mann
  • Which two Christian churches grew the most during the Second Great Awakening?
    Methodist and Baptist
  • Where did Irish immigrants to the U.S. in the mid-1800s settle... Northeast, Midwest, South, or West?
    Northeast
  • During which battle in the War of 1812 did Andrew Jackson gain his status as "war hero?"
    Battle of New Orleans
  • Which of the new religions rejected the idea that Jesus was the son of God, but still followed him as a great teacher.
    Unitarian
  • What continent did most immigrants to the U.S. come from in the 1800s?
    Europe
  • Which reformer opened the 1st school that enabled women to seek higher education?
    Emma Willard
  • How long was William Henry Harrison the president?
    32 days
  • What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison?
    The Liberator
  • Who was Angelina Grimke?
    an abolitionist and women's rights activist
  • Who helped to end the Nullification Crisis?
    Henry Clay
  • The Unitarians believe God is a ________, rather than a trinity.
    unity
  • Who was the first Whig to become president of the US?
    William Henry Harrison
  • Where did Andrew Jackson move the money from the Second Bank of the US to?
    state banks
  • Nativism is hostility towards __________.
    foreigners
  • Which reformer's efforts led to the better treatment of mentally ill patients?
    Dorothea Dix
  • Which president was the one to actually use the Indian Removal Act?
    Martin Van Buren
  • The first tax supported free public school was in the __________ school district.
    Dedham
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