American History 1301

Successes of Jefferson’s frist term included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. A reduction in the size of the federal government
b. purchasing of the Louisiana territory
c. getting rid of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
d. a successful embargo on foreign trade.

a successful embargo on foreign trade

One thing that could be said about women during Jefferson’s administration is:

they wielded a good deal of informal political power

President Jefferson’s secretary of the treasury was

Albert Gallatin

The acquittal of this Supreme Court judge ended the Republican offensive against the judiciary.

Chase

One outcome of the Anglo-French peace in 1800 was:

Napoleon’s renewed interest in reviving the French empire in America

France’s inability to reconquer ______ helped convince Napoleon to sell Louisiana.

Saint-Dominique (Haiti)

President Jefferson failed in his attempt to:

purchase West Florida from Spain

The western terminus of Lewis and Clark’s jouney wa closest to the __________ river.

Columbia

Which statement about the Embargo Act of 1807 in NOT true?

It resulted in a vibrant economic boom in America

Tecumseh and the prophet Tenkswatawa orginally urged a policy of:

recial solidarity and spiritual rebirth

The treaty of Vincennes added which territory to the Untied States?

Western Pennsylvania

Suppport for the War of 1812 was strongest in

the South and the West.

He killed Alexander Hamilton in a gen duel at Weehawken, New Jersey.

Aaron Burr

Jefferson defeated him in a landslide victory in the presidential election of 1804.

Charles C. Pinckney

During his 35 years on the Supreme Court, his forceful personality supported nationalist goals.

John Marshall

Commander of victorious American forces that dromve the British off Lake Eerie.

Oliver Perry

He composed "The Star Spangle Banner" as he watched, with inspiration, the American defense of besieged Baltimore.

Francis Scott Key

By the end of the first year of the War of 1812.

Britain controlled half of the Old Northwest.

This general crossed into Canada ot recruit Canadians to the American cause but found few takers.

Hull

During the War of 1812, most Canadians:

fought against the Americans.

The American victory at New Orleans gained great national fame for:

Andrew Jackson

This restored relations between the British and Americans to what they were at the start of the war.

Treaty of Ghent

During the end of James Madison’s presidency, the Republican Party:

began to embrace economic nationalism

As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall:

made decisions that reflected his nationalists convictions

The Supreme Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland:

strengthened national power over the states

The Anglo-American Accords did all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. provide for American fishing rights off Newfoundland
b. set the northern boundary of the Louisiana Territory
c. extend the boundary of Maine further north
d. create provisions for joint occupaiton of Oregon

extend the boundary further North.

What tribe did Andrew Jackson and his troops attack in Florida?

Seminoles

The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed all of the following policies EXCEPT:
a. the assertion that America would not interfere in European internal affairs
b. the United States was the guardian of liberty in the New World
c. the active American presence in republican revolutions across the globe.
d. the establishment of American autonomy in foreign relations.

the active American presence in republican revoluitons across the globe

Henry Clay’s American System included all of the following policies EXCEPT:

locally-funded internal improvements

The Lewis and Clark expedition can best be compared to:

an extended boy scout hike

In 1821 John Quincy Adams opposed American support for revolutionaries in:

Spain

A major change in American politics by the late 1820’s was:

mass participation through wider voting rights for white males

By the end of the 1820’s the right to vote:

had moved significantly toward universal manhood suffrage for whites

Britain’s Reform Bill of 1832 extended the vote to:

the industrial middle classes

Which group was an active participant in the Second Great Awakening?

Baptists

Many evangelical preachers of the Second Great Awakening:

directly challenged slavery

All of the following statements are true about Andrew Jackson’s background EXCEPT:
a. he was of Scots-Irish ancestry
b. military heroism elevated his image in the popular mind
c. achieving a college education led hi to eventual success
d. he was born and raised in the southern backcountry

achieving a college education led him to eventual success

Jacksonians portrayed John Quincy Adams as a man who:

was arrogant and did not understand the common man

An important legacy of the election of 1824 was

public sympathy for Jackson who lost because of a "corrupt bargain"

The election of 1828 revealed that Jackson had a formidable electoral base:

with farmers of the South and West

Jackson dominated his presidency with:

the sheer force of his personality

The spoils system features a stategy in which:

government jobs are given to supporters of the victorious party

The Cherokee Indians

had their own newspaper and a constitution

The term Train of Tears refers to the:

horrifying conditions experienced by Cherokees during their removal

Which statement would most likely have been said by a supporter of nullification?

"The states shall not adhere to federal law that is deemed to be unconstitutional"

The Indian Removal Act:

Included Indians living in Florida

John C. Calhoun enraged Jackson by doing all of the following things EXCEPT:
a. threatening to implement a doctrine by which states could secede from the union
b. labeling Peggy Eaton as a "loose woman" who caused her husband’s suicide
c. throwing his support to thise who held shares in the Bank of the United States.
d. attempting to discredit Jackson’s military leadership during a raid on Florida

throwing his support to those who held shares in the Bank of the United States.

The Force Bill gave Jackson the power to:

put down nullification with military force.

The person most responsible for the Panic if 1837 was:

Andrew Jackson

The first crisis that besieged the administration of Martin Van Buren was the:

Panic of 1837

Anti-Jacksonians called themselves Whigs because:

they accused Jackson of acting like a monarch

The gag rule:

allowed congress to automatically table all antislavery petitions

Before 1800, slavery was associated with all of the following cash crops EXCEPT:
a. long-staple cotton
b. short-staple cotton
c. rice
d. tobacco

short-staple cotton

The most=valued slaves in the slave market of 1815-1850 were male field hands and:

females of child-bearing age used as a means of increasing the slave population

A particularly cruel aspect of the internal slave trade was that it:

separated slaves from their families

Southern planters believed that the system of slavery would be weakened by:

urbanization and industralization

In 1860, Corn was most likely to be grown in

MIssouri

Marl was used in the attempt to:

replenish the soil in the Upper South

All of the following statements about slave codes EXCEPT:
a. they were only enacted in the cotton kingdom of the lower South
b. many slave states declared it was illegal to teach slaves to read to write.
c. they authorized whippings as a common form of punishment
d. most codes did not recognize marriages between slaves as legal.

they were only enacted in the cotton kingdom of the lower south

The housing of slaves revealed that:

housing was meager and provided little more than basic shelter

Slave owners commonly used all of the following incentives to motivate hard work EXCEPT:
a. the promises of extra rations or time off
b. the spread of fear through whippings
c. the transfer from field slaves to house slaves
d. the insincere promise of eventual freedom

the insincere promise of eventual freedom

Slaves followed West African customs in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

rejecting extended kinship ties

The plan for a huge slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina failed when:

two domestic servants betrayed the plan

All of the following statements about Denmark Vesey’s planned rebellion are true EXCEPT:

the plan failed because it did not direct the rebels to seize specific buildings

Which religious group was largely involved in beginning the Underground Railroad?

Quakers

What did the recipient of the letter try to do in Louisville?

escape to Canada

By the 1850’s, southern planters felt threatened regarding slavery for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

they were making very low profits

Which event happened first:
a.Virginia’s legislature considered gradual emancipation
b. Congress banned the African slave trade
c. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
d. Texas admitted as a slave state

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

In Review of the Debates in the Virginia Legislature of 1832 Thomas R. Dew:

provided a defense of slavery in the south

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:

Blacks were not citizens of the United States

In the Dred Scott decision, Roger Taney argued that:

President Pierce had exceeded his authority regarding slavery in Kansas

All of the following were effects of the Dred Scott decision EXCEPT that:

Free Blacks of the North organized in protest of the decision

The election of 1828 revealed that Jackson had a formidable electoral base:

with farmers of the South and West

As the Democratic Party’s first president, he claimed the legacy of Thomas Jefferson by appealing to the common man.

Andrew Jackson

The Wig Party was:

a supporter of government for economic development.

Which statement about John Tyler is true?

He was expelled from the Whig Party when he was President.

In the election of 1844…

James Polk expressed expansionist ideas.

Which of the following is not a state in the Lower South?

North Carolina

The most-valued slaves in the slave market of 1815-1850 were male field hands and :

females of child-bearing age used as a means of increasing the slave population.

a particularly cruel aspect of the internal slave trade was that it:

separated slaves from their families.

All of the following statements about urban slavery are true except:
a. it allowed slaves much more freedom of social interaction
b. urban slaves often lived apart from their owners.
c. urban slaves could sometimes hire out their labor for wages.
d. it increased dramatically in the years leading to the Civil War.

it increased dramatically in the years leading to the Civil War.

In 1860 tobacco as an important crop in:

Virginia

The general health of slaves included all of the following factors except:

a life expectancy that was roughly the same as their whigte contemporaries

The housing of slaves revealed that:

housing was meager and provided little more than basic shelter.

Slave owners commonly used all of the following incentives to motivate hard work except

the insincere promise of eventual freedom

The plan for a huge slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina failed when

two domestic servants betrayed the plan

Over 60 Whites in Virginia were killed in a rebellion led by

Nat Turner

It was difficult for American slaves to mount armed rebellions because

they lacked the numbers to overpower whites

Approximately ______ percent of southern black families were free in 1860.

3

________ were the wealthiest class in America in 1860.

Large plantation owners

What percentage of southern white families did not own slaves in 1860.

75%

Yeoman farmers of the Lower South

wanted to limit the authority of government

Which statement about southern whites without property of slaves is not true

They lacked self-reliance and depended on government welfare.

All of the following statements about black codes are true except:

they applied only to slaves and not free blacks

Most free blacks in the South lived in

the Upper South

Southern evangelicals who supported slavery used all of the following to support their arguments except:

the teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible

Which event happened last?

Florida and Texas admitted as slave states

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that:

Blacks were not citizens of the United States.

In the Dred Scott decision, Roger Taney argued that:

Slavery could not be banned in any territory

All of the following were effects of the Dred Scott decision except that:

There was apathy on the part of the most people in the North and South.