Deck 7: National Growing Pains

Question 1

Although Macon's Bill No. 2 temporarily removed all restrictions on trade,

A) non-intercourse would be reapplied to either major power if the other ceased violating American neutral rights.
B) Americans did not take advantage of the chance to trade with Great Britain.
C) Americans preferred to trade with other neutral nations.
D) the Embargo Act would be reapplied in December 1810 if war in Europe continued.

Answer 1

non-intercourse would be reapplied to either major power if the other ceased violating American neutral rights.

Question 2

President Madison reapplied the non-intercourse policy to Great Britain because

A) his cabinet members strongly urged him to do so.
B) the French threatened to attack American shipping unless he did so.
C) he mistakenly believed that France was no longer seizing American ships.
D) he had pledged to do so during his election campaign.

Answer 2

he mistakenly believed that France was no longer seizing American ships.

Question 3

One of the major reasons for American entry in the War of 1812 was the

A) American belief that the Spanish were inspiring Native American resistance to American expansion.
B) French attacks on American shipping.
C) American belief that the French were inspiring Native American resistance to American expansion.
D) American belief that the British were inspiring Native American resistance to American expansion.

Answer 3

American belief that the British were inspiring Native American resistance to American expansion.

Question 4

The Shawnee chief who tried to bind all of the tribes east of the Mississippi into a great confederation in the early 1800s was

A) Little Turtle.
B) Chief Joseph.
C) Osceola.
D) Tecumseh.

Question 5

Tecumseh's brother, Tenskwatawa (or "The Prophet")

A) called upon Native Americans to farm and copy the ways of whites.
B) was a spy for General William Henry Harrison.
C) declared Native Americans should reject white ways, clothes, and liquor.
D) was paid by the French to disrupt American settlement of the Ohio River Valley.

Question 6

In the early 1800s, American settlers blamed frontier warfare on a scheme by

A) General Harrison.
B) the French.
C) the Federalists.
D) the British.

Question 7

Among the causes of the War of 1812 was the

A) demand from New England merchants that their shipping be protected.
B) desire of Westerners to expand into Canada.
C) British repeal of the Orders in Council.
D) French blockade of American ports.

Question 8

The War Hawks called for war against Great Britain because they

A) agreed with the New England merchants' desire to stop impressment of their sailors.
B) wanted to defend the national honor and save the republic from British domination.
C) hoped to reopen European ports to US trade.
D) were trying to divert public attention away from their immoral treatment of the Native Americans.

Question 9

The greatest opposition to the War of 1812 came from

A) churches.
B) Westerners.
C) expansionists.
D) shipowners.

Question 10

In the War of 1812, Captain Isaac Hull commanded the frigate ________ to a brilliant victory over the H.M.S. Guerriere.

A) Chesapeake
B) Constitution
C) Leopard
D) United States

Question 11

In the War of 1812, the most effective American action against British shipping was by

A) U.S. frigates.
B) navies of the individual states.
C) pirates in the Caribbean.
D) privateering merchantmen.

Question 12

The map "The War of 1812" depicts the British tactic in America of a(n)

A) naval blockade of the American coast.
B) amphibious attack on Boston.
C) major offensive by Native Americans from west of the Mississippi.
D) coordinated attack on the Mississippi River Valley from Canada and New Orleans.

Question 13

The British changed their strategy against the United States in 1814 because

A) they could expect the support of France and Spain at that time.
B) the war in Europe, which had diverted their attention earlier, was now over.
C) the American military effort had broken down completely.
D) they had been soundly defeated in Europe.

Question 14

The major U.S. city sacked and burned by the British in 1814 was

A) Washington, D.C.
B) New Orleans.
C) Baltimore.
D) Philadelphia.

Question 15

The Treaty of Ghent (1814) ending the War of 1812

A) required the British to stop the impressment of seamen.
B) simply reestablished the status quo ante bellum.
C) clearly defined the rights of neutral nations.
D) was merely a temporary halt in the ongoing violent conflicts between the British and the Americans.

Question 16

During the War of 1812, Federalists in New England

A) refused to provide militia to aid in the fight.
B) supplied the American army with goods at prices below their cost.
C) purchased most of the government bonds to fund the war.
D) tried to negotiate an unofficial peace with France.

Question 17

In January 1815, which of the following gave states the right to assert their authority should "deliberate, dangerous and palpable infractions of the Constitution" be made?

A) the Essex Junto
B) the Hartford Convention
C) the Federalist Papers
D) the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves

Question 18

As a result of the War of 1812, the Federalists

A) increased their popularity in all regions.
B) were discredited as a political party.
C) lost popularity in the South.
D) regained the presidency in the election of 1816.

Question 19

The Battle of New Orleans in 1815 resulted in the

A) negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent on terms favorable to the United States.
B) acquisition of the area through the Louisiana Purchase.
C) emergence of Andrew Jackson as a military hero.
D) writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key.

Question 20

The measure in which Great Britain and the United States agreed to set a limit on the number of armed vessels on the Great Lakes was the

A) Rush-Bagot Agreement.
B) Transcontinental Treaty.
C) St. Lawrence Accord.
D) Monroe Doctrine.

Question 21

The American general who pursued the Seminole Native Americans into Florida and seized two Spanish forts was

A) Henry Dearborn.
B) William Henry Harrison.
C) Oliver Hazard Perry.
D) Andrew Jackson.

Question 22

The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819

A) gave the United States claim to the entire Texas area.
B) settled American boundary disputes with Canada.
C) established joint occupation of the Oregon country.
D) transferred Florida to the United States for $5 million and settled the southern boundary of the Louisiana territory to the Pacific.

Question 23

The Monroe Doctrine

A) proclaimed President Monroe's intention of intervening actively in Europe.
B) followed precisely a suggestion made earlier by the British government.
C) hoped to isolate the United States from involvement in European affairs.
D) asserted American claims to all of the Oregon country.

Question 24

The Monroe Doctrine's warning against European interference in America came because ________ colonies rebelled to gain their independence.

A) France's
B) Spain's
C) Portugal's
D) England's

Question 25

"The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." The source of this quote is

A) the Embargo Act.
B) the Transcontinental Treaty.
C) Washington's Neutrality Proclamation.
D) the Monroe Doctrine.

Question 26

What "may be seen as the final stage in the evolution of American independence"?

A) Louisiana Purchase
B) Monroe Doctrine
C) War of 1812
D) Battle of New Orleans

Question 27

The "Era of Good Feelings" was noted for the

A) absence of organized political parties opposing each other.
B) return to the political and economic philosophy of Jefferson.
C) exceptionally strong leadership by Monroe as head of his party.
D) absence of any divisive political and economic issues.

Question 28

By 1820 the American population and geographic area both

A) remained constant.
B) increased by half.
C) doubled.
D) tripled.

Question 29

The original Bank of the United States that Hamilton proposed

A) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1814.
B) did not have its charter renewed when it expired in 1811.
C) was strongly supported by southern planters.
D) was unable to interest foreign investors in purchasing its stock.

Question 30

The depression of 1819 was worsened by the policies of

A) New England merchants.
B) James Madison.
C) the second Bank of the United States.
D) the Treasury Department.

Question 31

Western opinion on public land policy in the early nineteenth century generally favored

A) increasing the price and the minimum size offered for sale.
B) reducing the price, but increasing the minimum size offered for sale.
C) reducing the price and the minimum size offered for sale.
D) increasing the price, but reducing the minimum size offered for sale.

Question 32

The group which consistently favored low prices and easy credit for western lands was

A) westerner settlers.
B) northern manufacturers.
C) southern planters.
D) northern farmers.

Question 33

How was slavery a sectional issue before 1820?

A) Westerners tended to disagree with the South because their major markets were in the North.
B) The cotton boom dampened southern support of slavery.
C) Westerners tended to support the South because most Westerners owned slaves also.
D) Most white Americans saw slavery as mainly a local issue.

Question 34

The best-known political leader of the North in the early 1820s, who served brilliantly as Monroe's secretary of state, was

A) Daniel Webster.
B) James Madison.
C) Alexander J. Dallas.
D) John Quincy Adams.

Question 35

The gregarious New York politician who never took a political position if he could avoid doing so and who led a political machine known as the Albany Regency was

A) De Witt Clinton.
B) Martin Van Buren.
C) Thomas Hart Benton.
D) William Harris Crawford.

Question 36

In the 1820s, the most prominent southern leader, the highly successful secretary of the treasury under Monroe, was

A) John C. Calhoun.
B) Henry Clay.
C) William Henry Harrison.
D) William H. Crawford.

Question 37

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was

A) a smooth political manipulator who avoided taking political positions whenever possible.
B) a poorly educated, rough-and-tumble, frontier politician.
C) possessed by all of the virtues and most of vices of the puritan, being suspicious both of himself and of others.
D) devoted to the South, but known for his broad national view of political affairs.

Question 38

The outstanding western leader of the 1820s, combining a charismatic personality with great skills at arranging political compromises, was

A) John Quincy Adams.
B) Martin Van Buren.
C) John C. Calhoun.
D) Henry Clay.

Question 39

The essential question involved in the Missouri Compromise was whether or not Missouri would

A) be allowed to import slaves from abroad.
B) include present-day Kansas in its boundaries.
C) come into the Union as a free or slave state.
D) be forced to pay its share of the cost of the Louisiana Purchase.

Question 40

As a result of the Missouri Compromise, which two states were admitted into the Union?

A) Missouri and Maine
B) Missouri and Massachusetts
C) Arkansas and Kansas
D) Rhode Island and Kentucky

Question 41

The vote in the House of Representatives on Tallmadge's amendment to the Missouri Enabling Act in 1819 demonstrated that

A) the rapidly growing North controlled the House of Representatives.
B) only a small minority of politicians favored restricting the expansion of slavery.
C) the South retained the power to limit the actions of the House.
D) the emerging West held the balance of power in the House.

Question 42

Northern objections to admitting Missouri as a slave state were based on

A) the immorality of slavery.
B) the overrepresentation they thought Missouri would have because of the Three-Fifths Compromise.
C) the loss of revenue the federal treasury would suffer when plantations rather than homesteads were established.
D) their fears that this would lead to resumption of the international slave trade.

Question 43

The state admitted to the Union on the condition that, in the future, slavery was prohibited in the area of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36° 30' line was

A) Kansas.
B) Ohio.
C) Kentucky.
D) Missouri.

Question 44

The election of 1824 was waged on mainly personal grounds because the

A) Democrats were trying to destroy their political opponents.
B) previous party system had collapsed.
C) newspapers encouraged a mudslinging, negative campaign.
D) Whigs were out to win at any price.

Question 45

As president, John Quincy Adams

A) was an inept politician.
B) eloquently aroused public support for his programs.
C) was extraordinarily sensitive to the mood of public opinion.
D) strongly opposed federal support for internal improvements.

Question 46

The Tariff of 1828 was so high that in the South it was called the

A) Tariff of No Return.
B) Extravagant Tariff.
C) Tariff of Abominations.
D) Bloody Tariff.

Question 47

The "Tariff of Abominations" was so-called by its detractors because it

A) threatened to impoverish the South with its excessively high rates.
B) established rates on raw materials which were too low to protect southern crops.
C) seemed to be designed to promote the candidacy of John Quincy Adams.
D) dramatically cut tariffs and flooded the South with cheap imported goods.

Question 48

The author of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest who, drawing on the works of John Locke, stated that it was within the authority of a state to nullify a law within its boundaries if a state convention found an act of Congress unconstitutional was

A) Henry Clay.
B) John C. Calhoun.
C) Andrew Jackson.
D) William H. Crawford.

Question 49

In the face of growing sectionalism, which of the following was NOT a unifying force among the American landscape?

A) growth and prosperity
B) patriotism
C) the uniqueness of the American system of government
D) the ideas of preeminent politicians, such as those found in Calhoun's Exposition and Protest

Question 50

William Henry Harrison's sordid and aggressive behavior toward the Native Americans was a major cause of Tecumseh's effort to unite tribes against white expansion.

Question 51

America should have avoided war with England in 1812 because Napoleon posed a far greater threat than England.

Question 52

Frances Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" as he watched the British ransack Washington.

Question 53

American forces won the Battle of New Orleans because of the firepower they were able to concentrate on the advancing British.

Question 54

At the time of its origin, the Monroe Doctrine was dismissed with contempt by many European countries.

Question 55

Despite how serious they were, the War of 1812 and the depression of 1819 had little impact on political issues during the Era of Good Feelings.

Question 56

Most of the settlers in Missouri were originally Southerners.

Question 57

Southerners insisted on admitting Missouri as a slave state to preserve a balance of power in the Senate.

Question 58

In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams received the most electoral votes, even though he did not have a majority in the Electoral College.

Question 59

The title of chapter seven in your text is "National Growing Pains." Describe those growing pains and explain how they affected the nation between 1808 and 1823.

Question 60

Summarize the factors that led the United States to declare war on England in the War of 1812. Evaluate what the United States gained as a result of the war.

Question 61

Describe the major achievements of American foreign policy from 1814 to 1823.

Question 62

Explain why tariff policy became a controversial sectional issue in the early nineteenth century. Describe how each of the sections tended to view tariffs. What conflicts arose over the differences among the sections?

Question 63

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Transcontinental Treaty :