Deck 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Key

Question 1

The experience of American banking during the War of 1812 revealed the need for

A) currency backed by both gold and silver.
B) more state banks.
C) a reduction in gold and silver reserves.
D) an increase in the number of bank notes in circulation.
E) another national bank.

Answer 1

another national bank.

Question 2

By 1820,American steam-powered shipping

A) stimulated agriculture in both the West and the South.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) increased the transport of manufactured goods westward.
D) had reached as far up the Ohio River as Pittsburgh.
E) carried more cargo on the Mississippi than all other forms of river transport combined.

Answer 2

All these answers are correct.

Question 3

On his last day in office,President James Madison influenced "internal improvements" by

A) establishing a military corps of engineers to help study and contribute to infrastructure development.
B) supporting federal financing of scientific and technological research into steam power.
C) vetoing a bill that would have used federal funds to construct roads and canals.
D) allocating federal funds to finance transportation construction.
E) approving a bill that would have used federal funds to construct roads and canals.

Answer 3

vetoing a bill that would have used federal funds to construct roads and canals.

Question 4

As a result of the War of 1812,

A) the growth of American manufacturing was stimulated.
B) America's internal transportation system proved its worthiness.
C) American shippers experienced a financial boom.
D) American banking was stabilized.
E) politicians spent less time on questions of national economic development.

Question 5

Prior to becoming president,James Monroe had

A) been vice president.
B) served as secretary of state.
C) explored the western frontier.
D) fought in the War of 1812.
E) switched political parties.

Question 6

In the early nineteenth century,the Deep South

A) was largely developed by wealthy planters.
B) included a vast, productive region in Alabama and Mississippi.
C) was slow to organize into states.
D) contemplated seceding from the rest of the Union.
E) saw tobacco as its primary crop.

Question 7

By 1818,the United States' internal road system

A) had been paid for without any federal funds.
B) formed a network that connected most large towns and cities.
C) had for the most part been replaced by railroads.
D) consisted only of a small number of private turnpikes.
E) included a National Road that reached as far as the Ohio River.

Question 8

In the early nineteenth century,"mountain men"

A) were the dominant segment of the population in the Far West.
B) very often became intimately involved with Indian and Mexican women.
C) frequently warred against Indian and Mexican peoples.
D) were mostly older settlers of an earlier era.
E) had little impact on the character of Far West society.

Question 9

The first American mill to carry on the processes of spinning and weaving under a single roof was located in

A) Waltham, Massachusetts.
B) Springfield, Massachusetts.
C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
D) Boston, Massachusetts.
E) Newport, Rhode Island.

Question 10

Francis Cabot Lowell's contribution to American textile mills included

A) improving the power loom.
B) the invention of the cotton spindle.
C) dramatically expanding the textile industry in the South.
D) organizing his workers by task into a primitive assembly line.
E) improving the cotton gin.

Question 11

Between 1800 and 1820,the population of the United States

A) saw its largest increases in southern states.
B) nearly doubled.
C) reached five million.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) generally ignored the rocky soil of the Old Northwest.

Question 12

Which of the following statements about American currency and banking in this era is FALSE?

A) Vast quantities of varying bank notes created confusion over currency.
B) Congress chartered a second Bank of the United States in 1816.
C) Counterfeiting was a serious problem.
D) The national bank forbade state banks from issuing their own notes.
E) The second Bank of the United States had more capital than its predecessor.

Question 13

The Lancaster Pike was a road partially financed by the state of

A) Massachusetts.
B) Virginia.
C) Maryland.
D) Pennsylvania.
E) New York.

Question 14

The "era of good feelings" following the War of 1812 reflected

A) the need for Americans to band together in the wake of economic depression.
B) increased political divisions in the United States federal government.
C) declining violence in the West between the United States and Indian tribes.
D) rising nationalism and optimism in the United States.
E) renewed good relations between the United States and the European continent.

Question 15

After the War of 1812,it was clear that the United States' most pressing economic need was an improved

A) system of currency.
B) trade policy with Europe.
C) system of tariffs.
D) internal transportation system.
E) system for selling public lands.

Question 16

After Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821,it

A) quickly opened its northern territories to trade with the United States.
B) began planning for war against the United States.
C) sought cooperative economic and military arrangements with England.
D) began selling its northern territories to the United States.
E) attempted to close its northern territories to the United States.

Question 17

Who among the following was a part of the "Virginia Dynasty"?

A)John C.Calhoun
B)James Monroe
C)Henry Clay
D)John Adams
E)Rufus King

Question 18

In the early nineteenth century,the explorer Stephen H.Long

A) discovered the source of the Red River.
B) labeled the Great Plains the "American breadbasket."
C) inadvertently brought the United States to the brink of war with Mexico.
D) was one of the most colorful of the "mountain men."
E) agreed with the findings and conclusions of Zebulon Pike.

Question 19

In the early nineteenth century,the westward movement of white Americans was encouraged by all of the following EXCEPT for

A) the exhaustion of agricultural lands in the East.
B) the federal government's policy toward Indian tribes in the West.
C) the expansion of a slave labor in the South.
D) the spread of the plantation system in the South.
E) the lure of mineral mining in the mountainous regions of the West.

Question 20

The rapid growth of the Northwest and Southwest led to which of the following in the immediate aftermath of the War of 1812?

A) a rapid reduction in the political popularity of slavery in the South
B) the admission of four new states to the Union
C) the establishment of two large territories in the West with provincial governments
D) the breakout of two major wars between federal forces and united Indian tribes
E) the development of a new western-expansion political party that pushed for secession from the United States

Question 21

One cause of the Panic of 1819 was

A) decreased foreign demand for American agricultural goods.
B) the announcement that year that dozens of new state banks were to be chartered.
C) new management practices within the Bank of the United States.
D) an English embargo of American goods.
E) restrictive credit practices prior to 1819.

Question 22

The Monroe Doctrine declared that

A) the United States had a "manifest destiny" to colonize North America.
B) European powers should not engage in new colonization of the American continents.
C) Cuba should come under the control of the United States.
D) European powers should abandon all their interests in the Western Hemisphere.
E) the United States reserved the right to involve itself in European affairs.

Question 23

,the Marshall Court affirmed federal authority over

A) the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
B) all American Indian tribes.
C) both American Indian tribes and the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
D) individual states.
E) both individual states and all American Indian tribes.

Question 24

that

A) Indians had a basic right to their tribal lands.
B) individual Americans had the right to buy land from Indian tribes.
C) Indians had all the rights and protections afforded to U.S. citizens.
D) the laws of the United States invalidated all Indian rights.
E) the federal government had no right to take lands from tribes.

Question 25

During the administration of James Monroe,

A)all cabinet positions were filled by New Englanders.
B)the Federalist Party in effect ceased to exist.
C)his vice president was charged with corruption.
D)Henry Clay became secretary of war.
E)John C.Calhoun served as secretary of state.

Question 26

was a victory for

A) corporations.
B) state courts.
C) the Republican Party.
D) state government.
E) public education.

Question 27

The Missouri Compromise of 1819

A) extended slavery throughout the Louisiana Territory.
B) maintained the nation's equal number of slave and free states.
C) was roundly criticized by nationalists in the North.
D) created a northern boundary of slavery at the 42°40ʹ parallel.
E) denied statehood for Missouri for two more years.

Question 28

,Chief Justice John Marshall affirmed the constitutionality of

A) state court review of state laws.
B) Supreme Court review of state court decisions.
C) state court review of congressional laws.
D) Supreme Court review of congressional laws.
E) state courts' overturning of corporate charters.

Question 29

The Supreme Court ruling in Gibbons v.Ogden (1824)

A)narrowed the federal government's role in regulating the economy.
B)declared transportation monopolies unconstitutional.
C)strengthened the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
D)reaffirmed the New York court's ruling regarding interstate trade.
E)was a victory for Aaron Ogden,Robert Fulton,and Robert Livingston.

Question 30

In 1819,the Adams-Onís Treaty dealt with the American purchase of

A) Ohio.
B) Texas.
C) Puerto Rico.
D) Florida.
E) Illinois.

Question 31

,the Supreme Court confirmed the

A) right of the federal government to tax states.
B) "implied powers" of Congress.
C) right of states to abolish slavery within their borders.
D) right of states to tax the Bank of the United States.
E) right of states to prohibit the Bank of the United States.

Question 32

Shortly after becoming president,James Monroe

A) called for an end to political parties.
B) undertook a goodwill tour of the country.
C) called for increased manumissions in the South.
D) became the first president to leave the country while in office.
E) acted to limit the future influence of Federalists.

Question 33

In the presidential election of 1824,

A) Henry Clay received the fourth-most electoral votes and was elected president by the House of Representatives.
B) None of these answers is correct.
C) Andrew Jackson received the most electoral votes and became president.
D) John Q. Adams received the second-most electoral votes and was elected president by the House of Representatives.
E) William Crawford received the most electoral votes, but he died before a president was chosen.

Question 34

The so-called "corrupt bargain" of 1824 involved

A) the sale of public land to supporters of the Monroe administration.
B) federal funds for internal improvements to certain states in exchange for electoral votes.
C) political payoffs and bribery involving the Treasury Department.
D) a political deal to determine the outcome of the presidential election.
E) illegal contracts between the State Department and private corporations.

Question 35

The writing of the Monroe Doctrine

A) was an important example of American nationalism.
B) was primarily based on the earlier writings of Thomas Jefferson.
C) was motivated by American interests in Hawaii.
D) had an immediate and dramatic effect on American policy.
E) deeply angered the European powers.

Question 36

The Panic of 1819 resulted in a depression that lasted

A) six years.
B) four years.
C) six months.
D) one year.
E) two years.

Question 37

The so-called "corrupt bargain" was negotiated between

A)John C.Calhoun and Andrew Jackson.
B)John Quincy Adams and John C.Calhoun.
C)Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.
D)Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
E)William Crawford and John Quincy Adams.

Question 38

)The representative from New York who proposed an 1819 amendment prohibiting slavery in Missouri was

A)James Tallmadge Jr.
B)Henry Clay.
C)John C.Calhoun.
D)Rufus King.
E)John Jacob Astor.

Question 39

What event prompted Spain to negotiate the sale of Florida to the United States?

A) the Panic of 1819
B) civil war in Spain
C) the Mexican war for independence against Spain
D) the Missouri Compromise
E) the Seminole War

Question 40

The policy expressed in the Monroe Doctrine was principally directed at

A) Mexico.
B) Asia.
C) American Indians.
D) Europe.
E) southern slaveholders.

Question 41

The Missouri Compromise preserved equality between free and slave state representatives in the House of Representatives.

Question 42

Fur traders consistently relied on Indians to trap,while they served as the middlemen.

Question 43

The election of 1828

A) saw Andrew Jackson sweep most of New England.
B) saw Andrew Jackson receive the largest majority in American political history.
C) was decided by the House of Representatives.
D) represented to Jacksonians a victory for the forces of privilege.
E) saw the emergence of a new two-party system.

Question 44

Andrew Jackson's presidential victory in 1828 was

A) extremely narrow.
B) likely a product of corrupt voting in several key states.
C) decisive, but sectional.
D) a result of the support he received from New England states.
E) an overwhelming victory.

Question 45

Between 1800 and 1820 the population of America grew very slowly.

Question 46

The Marshall Court accepted the argument that Indian tribes were foreign nations.

Question 47

American forces during the War of 1812 made good use of a powerful new American transportation system.

Question 48

The Federalist Party made a surprising comeback during the presidency of James Monroe.

Question 49

Western settlements were generally opened by people who lived in eastern seaboard cities.

Question 50

The Marshall Court upheld the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.

Question 51

New management and more specifically new business practices at the Bank of the United States caused several state banks to fail.

Question 52

The Marshall Court strengthened the federal government at the expense of the states.

Question 53

President Madison believed that federal funding of internal improvements required a constitutional amendment.

Question 54

President James Monroe began his administration under what seemed to be remarkably favorable circumstances.

Question 55

The first national bank had gone out of existence before the War of 1812.

Question 56

During the presidential campaign of 1828,

A) the major election issue was the Bank of the United States.
B) Andrew Jackson was labeled a murderer.
C) John Quincy Adams gave a strong showing in the South.
D) President Adams was accused of adultery.
E) Republicans were able to effectively unite.

Question 57

As president,James Monroe acted to preserve the "Virginia Dynasty."

Question 58

Western Americans tended to blame the national bank for the Panic of 1819.

Question 59

In Worcester v.Georgia,the Marshall Court upheld the right of a state legislature to regulate Indian affairs.

Question 60

The presidential administration of John Quincy Adams was

A) noted for its inability to carry out its policies effectively.
B) plagued by financial corruption.
C) deeply antagonistic to the ideas behind Clay's "American System."
D) successful in domestic policies, but had little success in foreign policies.
E) widely popular in the South for its tariff policies.

Question 61

How did the War of 1812 affect industry in the United States,and how did American industry evolve in the aftermath of the war?

Question 62

Both the 1824 and 1828 presidential elections were decided by the House of Representatives.

Question 63

What motivated the development of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823? How did its development relate to American nationalism?

Question 64

Describe the evolution of the plantation system in the Southwest during the early nineteenth century.

Question 65

During the first decades of the nineteenth century,what role did the federal government play in internal improvements of transportation?

Question 66

How did fur trading and trapping develop as a business market in the West? How did it change relations with Indian tribes there?

Question 67

What rulings by the Marshall Court enhanced its own power and that of the federal government?

Question 68

The Monroe Doctrine was consistent with the spirit of nationalism at work in the United States during the 1820s.

Question 69

The Monroe Doctrine was primarily the work of John Quincy Adams.

Question 70

In 1824,Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes and electoral votes.

Question 71

What factors motivated Americans to engage in a westward migration in the early nineteenth century? What type of American was more likely to move into the West?

Question 72

Was the "corrupt bargain" of 1824 really corrupt? Explain.

Question 73

What effect did the Marshall Court have on the legal status of Indian tribes?

Question 74

Describe the "era of good feelings" and explain how it eventually faded.

Question 75

The "tariff of abominations" was most strenuously opposed by the people of New England.

Question 76

What effect did the Missouri Compromise have on the sectional conflict in the United States? Why was it only a temporary solution to a growing conflict?

Question 77

By examining the Missouri Compromise,what can one learn about slavery as a political issue in the United States during the early nineteenth century?

Question 78

How did the United States government attempt to stimulate economic growth during the early nineteenth century?