- attacked the US Constitution because it condoned slavery.
- was a minister who came to his antislavery convictions through the evangelical crusades of the 1820s.
- demanded the immediate abolition of slavery, with federally funded compensation for former slaveholders.
- criticized the colonizationists for moving too slowly in their efforts to emancipate slaves.
ANSWER: The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison attacked the US Constitution because it condoned slavery.
- insisting that high protective tariffs were in the national interest.
- attempting unsuccessfully to have Congress repeal the Tariff of 1832.
- persuading Congress to pass new legislation enacting a compromise tariff to gradually reduce duties.
- ignoring the issue.
ANSWER: In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by persuading Congress to pass new legislation enacting a compromise tariff to gradually reduce duties.
- came to hold the same cultural and religious values as wage earners in contrast to the elitism that in the eighteenth century had kept the gentry and the "common people" apart.
- openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
- became more hypocritical, pretending to share cultural and religious values with wage earners, but actually behaving very differently.
- tended to claim that they had risen "from rags to riches" and to flaunt their crude taste and rough manners in contrast to "gentlemanly" values of the eighteenth-century elites.
ANSWER: One social change resulting from the Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth century America was that members of the upper class openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
- As the 1840 election demonstrated, the Whigs held the edge in party discipline and mass loyalty.
- The two parties offered virtually the same social and economic platform but employed differing campaign styles to attract voters.
- The practice of Americans voting for a particular party along ethnic and religious lines began to emerge.
- The Democrats had a major advantage in their wealth and the cohesiveness of their leadership and support.
ANSWER: The practice of Americans voting for a particular party along ethnic and religious lines began to emerge.
- tried to impose cultural assimilation and forced labor along with religious conversion of indigenous peoples.
- became large landowners who collected tribute from the Indians.
- outlawed slavery in the Spanish colonies.
- adapted to native culture almost completely.
ANSWER: The Spanish Franciscan missionaries tried to impose cultural assimilation and forced labor along with religious conversion of indigenous peoples.
- doubled the size of their population.
- produced an agricultural surplus--enough to trade with the Native Americans.
- lived remarkably disease-free.
- suffered from famine and diseases that killed more than half the population.
ANSWER: During their first couple of years in the Jamestown colony, the English migrants suffered from famine and diseases that killed more than half the population.
- prohibited state governments from using property requirements to disqualify blacks from voting.
- gave the full vote to all adult African Americans.
- prohibited state governments from using literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent blacks from voting.
- forbade states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition as a slave.
ANSWER: The Fifteenth Amendment forbade states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition as a slave.
