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A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
a. slavery should not be permitted in the American territories above latitude 36°30'.
b. European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
c. Congress is entitled to pass any law to promote the "general welfare," except where explicitly barred by the Constitution.
d. the United States needs a world-class national university for women.
b. European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting, at least for a time.
True
False
False
Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the Presidential Election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a "corrupt bargain" between some of the participants.
True
False
False
Both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson believed in states' rights to nullify federal law.
True
False
False
During the market revolution, the emergence of organized political parties spurred newspaper publication.
True
False
True
Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called
a. paternalism.
b. the spoils system.
c. despotism.
d. the fair-and-square system.
b. the spoils system.
In Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice Marshall described Indians as "wards" of the federal government, deserving paternal protection.
True
False
False
In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.
True
False
False
President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a solemn, elite dinner.
True
False
False
President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as
a. the Hamiltonian System.
b. the American System.
c. the Madisonian System.
d. the Union System of Manufactures.
b. the American System.
The "Era of Good Feelings" was so-called because
a. they were years of one-party government.
b. there were more inventions manufactured at this time than ever before.
c. many Americans experienced a boost in their personal economies at this time.
d. Whigs defeated Democrats in the midterm elections.
a. they were years of one-party government.
The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the Nullification Crisis.
True
False
True
The Democrats nominated William Henry Harrison without a platform, instead promoting him as the "log cabin" candidate, or a champion of the common man.
True
False
False
The Panic of 1819 was caused by
a. disease that spread rapidly up the eastern seaboard that was ultimately responsible for mass panic in Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore.
b. a sudden and deliberate attack by naval forces of the British Admiralty on the nation's capitol.
c. Chief Pontiac's attack on Detroit and surrounding areas.
d. the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.
d. the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.
The author of Democracy in America was
a. Alexis de Tocqueville, from France.
b. Marquis de Lafayette, from France.
c. Alexander Hamilton, originally from the British West Indies.
d. Herman Melville, from New York City.
a. Alexis de Tocqueville, from France.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to
a. the Federalist Party's duplicity at the Hartford Convention.
b. the Sedition Act of 1798 for which he had written the Kentucky resolution.
c. the westward expansion of slavery.
d. the events surrounding John Quincy Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives.
c. the westward expansion of slavery.
Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?
a. The idea of a "common man" and "manliness" became an important factor with candidates.
b. Selling candidates and their images was as important as the positions for which they stood.
c. A spirit of popular involvement in politics enlivened the public sphere.
d. Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.
d. Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.
Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
a. Missouri was admitted without having to agree to end slavery.
b. Maine, a free state (without slavery), was admitted into the Union.
c. Slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of 36°30'.
d. It permanently settled the question of the expansion of slavery.
d. It permanently settled the question of the expansion of slavery.
While Whigs considered individual morality a private matter, not a public concern, Democrats insisted that liberty and power reinforced each other.
True
False
False
William Henry Harrison's presidency ended as he
a. was impeached for accepting financial kickbacks from backers in his political party.
b. died from pneumonia a month after taking office.
c. was unsuccessful in having his Supreme Court justices accepted and resigned.
d. was assassinated while on a tour of Pennsylvania.
b. died from pneumonia a month after taking office.
The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated:
A. the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.
B. an end to fighting between France and the United States.
C. the purchase of land in which to construct the National Road.
D. an agreement not to allow slavery in the new states of Indiana and Ohio.
A. the sale of parts of Florida from Spain to the United States.
Which of the following was a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?
A. the rise of employment
B. the increase of small businesses
C. America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe
D. the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor
D. the increasing dependence of workers upon wage labor
What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
A. revolver
B. steam engine
C. cotton gin
D. iron smelter
C. cotton gin
Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to:
A. canals.
B. steel plow.
C. railroads.
D. steamboat.
C. railroads.
What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?
A. reduced it gradually
D. caused a sharp collapse in U.S. manufacturers
C. stimulated its growth
D. reduced production in the North, but increased production in the South
C. stimulated its growth
Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of:
A. indentured servants.
B. men organized into early trade unions (earlier called "guilds").
C. unskilled labor of boys and young men fresh from the farm.
D. women and children.
D. women and children.
"Manifest destiny" was:
A, the name of the frigate invented by Robert Fulton that first sailed up the Hudson River.
B. the famous list of the cargo--the manifest--carried by HMS Destiny.
C. an idea that the truth will manifest itself regarding the politics of the early nation.
D. the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.
D. the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.
The Second Great Awakening was:
A. a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.
B. Emerson and Thoreau's utopian vision of the labor movement.
C. the rebirth of classical learning in the rising American university.
D. a celebration of the factory replacing outdated methods of producing goods.
A. a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?
A. a southerner
B. a transcendentalist
C. proslavery
D. the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
B. a transcendentalist
Democracy in America was written by:
A. Andrew Jackson.
B. Thomas Jefferson.
C. Alexis de Tocqueville.
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C. Alexis de Tocqueville.
Between 1800 and 1860, around 1 million slaves moved from older slave states to the Deep South, traveling:
A. with their owners to work as free people.
B. with local Native American tribes.
C. to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.
D. by themselves.
C. to the Deep South to work in cotton fields.
Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?
A. France and England
B. Poland and Italy
C. Spain and Portugal
D. Germany and Ireland
D. Germany and Ireland
This religion started after its leader claimed to have been led by an angel to a set of golden plates covered with strange writing, which he translated and later published.
A. Anabaptism
B. Lutheran
C. Quaker
D. Mormonism
D. Mormonism
New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?
A. bread riots led by women
B. slave rebellions
C. Indian attacks
D. anti-immigrant riots
D. anti-immigrant riots
The Alien Act of 1798 reflected fear of immigrants possessing:
A. pro-U.S. literature.
B. birth control information.
C. passports.
D. radical political views.
D. radical political views.
T/F: The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.
False
T/F: During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.
True
T/F: Florida was victoriously delivered to American hands with the assistance of local Indians and Spain's suggestion to sell the area.
False
T/F: Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.
True
Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for:
A. a decreased tax on whiskey.
B. the acceptance of unrestricted slave trade in the lower states.
C. an early form of the three-fifths clause.
D. the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.
D. the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.
The Hartford Convention:
A. called for secession and disunion.
B. called for amending the Constitution to require a three-fifths clause that would strengthen southern political power.
C. was, at best, a weak attempt by the Anti-Federalists to obtain more power.
D. affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.
D. affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.
Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by:
A. German stonemasons.
B. Irish immigrants.
C. African-American slaves.
D. indentured servants from Genoa.
C. African-American slaves.
"Impressment" as practiced by the British was:
A. the gentlemanly virtue of chivalric honor toward women.
B. the act of formally publishing a legal document.
C. kidnapping sailors.
D. enslaving Indians.
C. kidnapping sailors.
The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the:
A. Republicans and Democrats.
B. Republicans and Federalists.
C. Federalists and Whigs.
D. Democrats and Whigs.
B. Republicans and Federalists.
In the XYZ affair of 1797:
A. French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.
B. Thomas Jefferson's affair with a slave was kept private.
C. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton.
D. the British legation was excoriated for the British system of impressment.
A. French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.
Which of the following statements accurately reflects Fries' Rebellion of 1799?
A. Farmers in southeastern Georgia obstructed tax assessments.
B. President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.
C. John Fries, a local militia leader and auctioneer, was hanged.
D. John Fries was arrested for insurrection.
B. President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.
The "Revolution of 1800" was:
A. a recrudescence of the Whiskey Rebellion of four years earlier.
B. the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.
C. a rebellion of disgruntled western Massachusetts farmers over increased taxes.
D. a slave revolution on the Island of Haiti.
B. the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.
The case that established judicial review was:
A. Fletcher v. Peck.
B. Ex parte Milligan.
C. Marbury v. Madison.
D. Leopard v. Chesapeake.
C. Marbury v. Madison.
With the Louisiana Purchase:
A. Louisiana entered the Union as the eighteenth state.
B. the size of the nation was doubled.
C. the country was bankrupted.
D. France gained control of New Orleans.
B. the size of the nation was doubled.
On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter:
A. Squanto.
B. Hiawatha.
C. Sitting Bull.
D. Sacajawea.
D. Sacajawea.
The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to:
A. blow up the White House in Washington D.C.
B. seize a naval warship and sail to the West Indies.
C. take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.
D. join the American army and foster a military coup against the presidency.
C. take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.
The "Second War of Independence" was:
A. the Civil War.
B. the Spanish-American War.
C. the quasi-war with France.
D. the War of 1812.
D. the War of 1812.
The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?
A. the Treaty of Ghent
B. the Treaty of New Orleans
C. the Treaty of Paris
D. the Treaty of Versailles
A. the Treaty of Ghent
T/F: The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
False
T/F: In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
True
T/F: The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World.
True
T/F: The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution.
True
T/F: The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.
False
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to:
a) abolish slavery
b) levy taxes
c) declare war
d) regulate interstate trade
c) declare war
One of the leading Federalist thinkers, known as the "father of the Constitution," was
a) Sam Adams
b) James Madison
c) Patrick Henry
d) John Hancock
b) James Madison
Of the possible uses for the western lands and its settlement, the Confederation government faced conflicting pressures, including
a) land companies fearing a loss of profits as they purchased real estate and resold it to settlers
b) reverting the land back to the Indians as a symbol of good faith
c) land sales as they would not be a potential source of revenue due to Indian involvement
d) the economic health of the new republic as farmers obtained access to land in the West
d) the economic health of the new republic as farmers obtained access to land in the West
As a result of the three-fifths clause,
a) the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted
b) tensions were eased over time between the North and South
c) slaves were provided the same "free air" as that in Britain
d) the northern states, with fewer slaves, had more political and cultural control over the South
a) the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted
Shay's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of
a) backcountry farmers in western Virginia who sought to diminish government
b) western Pennsylvania farmers who refused to pay the tax on whiskey
c) debt ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts
d) a group of soldier scholars near Detroit
c) debt ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts
Why did the founding fathers create the initial House of Representatives with a relatively small number of members?
a) It was thought that slaveholders from the South might dominate the election process in the House
b) It was thought that if too many members were placed in the House a rebellion might break out
c) It was thought that it was best to keep the House small to deal with Indian political issues
d) It was thought that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts
d) It was thought that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts
Federalism refers to:
a) the party of Jefferson
b) rule by the Federalist Party
c) the autonomy and unified power of the federal government
d) the relationship between the national government and the states
d) the relationship between the national government and the states
In James Madison's view in The Federalist, the "first object of government" is:
a) universal suffrage
b) the protection of property rights
c) a strong military, especially a navy
d) enacting the enthusiasms of the majority
b) the protection of property rights
The U.S. Constitution
a) asserts that the United States is a Christian nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all
b) declares the centrality of the Judeo-Christian traditions to our nation's form of governance
c) is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders
d) asserts that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, among these, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
c) is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders
Jefferson's idea of the "empire of liberty" involved
a) the political measure of allowing Indians and all women to become citizens so that they could vote
b) ruling over the West as a colonial power
c) the United States admitting the area's population as equal members of the political system
d) the creation of one state north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi
c) the United States admitting the area's population as equal members of the political system
The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States must be a(n)
a) "natural born citizen"
b) "man of wealth and means"
c) "experienced military veteran"
d) "paragon of virtue"
a) "natural born citizen"
What territory did the United States acquire from France in 1803?
a) Louisiana
b) the Pacific Northwest
c) Florida
d) California
a) Louisiana
In what era did the U.S. Congress pass into law "birthright citizenship"?
a) the Modern era of the 1920s
b) the Progressive era
c) the Reconstruction era
d) the Early Republic era
c) the Reconstruction era
To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to
a) white women
b) Indian soldiers
c) children
d) black sailors
d) black sailors
T or F: Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch
False
T or F: One of America's earliest trade experiences was with China.
True
T or F: The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of a despotic national government
True
T or F: The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship
True
T or F: Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers
False
T or F: Charles Willson Peale painted portraits of the founding fathers
True
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