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True or False The Bucktail faction believed that control of the Democratic Party should be in the hands of established and powerful party leaders. |
FALSE |
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True or False Eary in the nation's history, the right to vote was based on property ownership or the payment of taxes. |
TRUE |
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True or False An important event in the advent of popular democracy was the rapid growth of the printing industry. |
TRUE |
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True or False The inauguration of Andrew Jackson marked the strengthening of traditional politics in America. |
FALSE |
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True or False The Nullification Controversy constituted the most serious threat to national unity that the nation had ever faced. |
TRUE |
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True or False The Trail of Tears was a tragic event that occurred as a result of the policy of Indian removal. |
TRUE |
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True or False The growth of large-scale business was delayed until the Civil War because states refused to pass laws that allowed for big corporations. |
FALSE |
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True or False The Panic of 1837 resulted from policies established during the administration of Martin Van Buren. |
False |
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True or False The first president to die in office was the Whig William Henry Harrison. |
TRUE |
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True or False Balloon-frame housing made nice homes much more affordable to common folks in the United States. |
TRUE |
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The second American Party System... |
created truly national political parties for the first time in American history. |
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During the early years of the 1800s... |
the United States was unique in the way popular democracy developed in a nation. |
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The American political system developed in such a way that... |
most adult white males gained the right to vote. |
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The period called the Era of Good Feelings came to an end with... |
the election of 1824. |
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A significant characteristic of popular democracy was... |
an insistence that voters express loyalty to a specific party. |
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Andrew Jackson ushered in a period of American history known as the ... |
Age of the Common Man |
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During his administration, Andrew Jackson... |
used the presidential veto quite frequently. |
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The Nullification Crisis... |
epitomized growing sectional differences and the constitutional questions associated with those differences. |
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The nation's approach to Indian policy rested primarily on the idea of... |
Native-American assimilation into white culture or the removal of the Native Americans to western lands. |
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In his letter in 1836, John Ross... |
protested American policies toward the Cherokee Indians. |
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The proposals that Henry Clay advocated came to be known as... |
the American System. |
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President Andrew Jackson... |
generally mistrusted banks and so moved to destroy the Bank of the United States. |
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The political coalition that emerged in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats was the... |
Whig Party. |
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During the era of Andrew Jackson... |
Americans begn to create a viable natinal artistic culture. |
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During the 1820s and 1830s... |
a sense of national identity coincided with the emergence of powerful sectional differences. |