MCQ Quiz Flashcards
When an image of a log cabin or hard cider pops up, what President comes to mind?
William Henry Harrison
When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, “We are all republicans – we are all federalists,” he meant that
That a united gov’t was above politics, for the nation
What was a major reason for the War of 1812 against the British?
Impressment
What group in America did not support the War of 1812?
Natives
What transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
Turnpikes & canals
The Missouri compromise of 1820 admitted what two states, under what circumstances?
Missour = slave & Maine = free
What was “the Lowell system” in early nineteenth-century New England?
Textile manufacturing in the north
What state fought the most for states’ rights in the 1800s?
South Carolina
What was one way during the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves?
Working slowly & breaking tools
What was the major idea of the Monroe Doctrine, that President Monroe conveyed when addressing congress?
War to Europe if they interfered with the western hemisphere
Politics in the antebellum (early 1800s) United States changed dramatically because of what?
Universal male white suffrage
The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of what?
tariffs/taxes
What best explains the cause of the emergence of new political parties in the early nineteenth century?
Continued debates over the proper role of the federal government
What was John Marshall’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland establish?
Implied powers
What did the case of Marbury v. Madison establish?
judicial review
The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of _________
Jefferson’s previous interpretation of the U.S. Constitution
What was Thomas Jefferson’s least favored policy while president?
Neutrality toward France & Britain
President Andrew Jackson’s creation of a monetary system based on state-chartered banks most likely contributed to what?
Panic of 1837
The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson’s attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was _________________________ and _________________________
an expansion of credit and speculation
Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that
The common man deserved to participate in government
The dramatic increase in the South’s slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to
Natural reproduction
What did the Embargo Act of 1807 do to the U.S.?
Disrupted American shipping
In addition to the cotton gin, Eli Whitney’s major contribution to American Technology was his
interchangeable parts
Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from
The supreme court
One important factor in Andrew Jackson’s successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his
American hero standing
An important consequence of the “tariff of abominations” (1828) is that it led to the
Nullification crisis
The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by
Banning discussion on anti-slavery petitions
The rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in which of the following by 1848?
A larger middle class in the North
