Monroes presidency

Question 0

What hurt the Federalist party?

Answer 0

The doubts they expressed about the war of 1812

Question 1

What happened after the war of 1812?

Answer 1

Divisions between states and regions that split the nation was replaced by a feeling of unity and pride

Question 2

Who won the election of 1816?

Answer 2

James Monroe, a Republican

Question 3

How did the Republican Party change?

Answer 3

Admitted Limited government wouldn’t work and promoted the Federalist idea of more Federal involvement in industrial and economic growth

Question 4

Henry Clay

Answer 4

Republican speaker of the house from Kentucky

Question 5

The principles of clays economic plan, the American system?

Answer 5

• A new nation Bank of the United States
• higher tariffs
• infrastructure improvements (roads ,bridges and canals) Congress did not agree with this idea

Question 6

What happened when first banks charter by making a national Bank Necessary?

Answer 6

State banks made too many loans and allowed too much money into circulation leading to inflation (rise in the prices of goods)

Question 7

How the Supreme Court supported the creation of the second national Bank:

Answer 7

Ruled states could not tax the national bank

Question 8

Why did American manufactures want higher tariffs?

Answer 8

British factories where more advanced and turned out more goods of higher quality at lower prices then American factories

Question 9

How did the tariff of 1816 protect American manufacturers?

Answer 9

• Placed high taxes on imports.
• merchants who payed the tariff added the cost of the tariff to the prices, making imported items more expensive
• consumers where more likely to buy cheaper goods from American manufactures

Question 10

Why did the South oppose the high tariffs?

Answer 10

• The South had few factories
• southerners were paying higher prices for the goods they had to buy
• stated the tariff protected northern industries at their expense

Question 11

What is Socialism and what was causing it in the US?

Answer 11

• Differences in the goals and interests of different parts of the country
• differences in geography, economics and history

Question 12

What were the sections in the US?

Answer 12

• North: New England and mid Atlantic states
• South
• West: Appalachian Mountains to Mississippi River

Question 13

What was the problems with Missouri’s statehood?

Answer 13

• Most Missouri settlers were from Kentucky and Tennessee= slave states
• Missouri was mostly north of the Ohio River- official border between slave and free states

Question 14

Describe the Missouri compromise:

Answer 14

-Proposed by Henry Clay

Question 15

The problem with the Missouri compromise:

Answer 15

Did not solve the underlying problem of differing opinions on slavery and how the economy of western states should be organized