Reform/Jackson and Road to Civil War

What was an impact on of Samuel Morse's invention?

• People can use slaves more efficiently 
• People can now exchange information from long distance
• It made shipping goods easier
• It made manufacturing goods cheaper.

Writers Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were

• Transcendentalists
• Revivalists
• Utopians
• Enslaved people

Transcendentalism-

• began in England and traveled to America
• valued intuition and self-reliance
• rejected Christianity in favor of Eastern teachings
• All these answers are correct

Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

• Leader in the abolitionist movement
• First woman doctor in the United States
• Leader in improving American schools
• Organizer of the Women's Rights Convention

What did advancement in transportation such as canals, steamboats, and railroads have on manufactured goods?

• Goods became more expensive to produce and ship.
• Goods became cheaper and easier to ship.
• Nothing changed in goods produced.
• The South started making less goods.

Transcendentalism

• a philosophy practiced by readers  who stressed the relationship between science and space over material things, and theimportance of the group conscience
• a philosophy practiced by writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience
• migrating (moving) to another country,usually for permanent residence
• the increase in the number of peopleliving in towns or cities due to migration,employment opportuities, or a changein birth & death rates; city life

What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?

• Only the federal government had the right to control interstate commerce.
• States had power over the national government in matters involving taxation.
• A state bank could not tax a national bank.
• A state had the right to control its own commerce.

The Supreme Court decision ruled that a state could not tax a national bank.

• Gibbons v. Ogden
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Marbury v. Madison
• Doctrine of Nullification

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted —

• spiritual revival and the need for social reform
• the use of reason and scientific theory
• states’ rights and governmental reform
• mercantilism and the development of global trade

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use popular sovereignty to determine whether the territory would be free or slave. This decision applied to much of the land gained from the...?

• Revolutionary War
• Treaty of 1846 (Oregon)
• U.S - Mexican War
• War of 1812