STAAR Points 16

Question 0

Called for a tariff on imported goods to protect American manufacturers, the money would be used to build American infrastructure (roads, bridges, canals) to transport goods

Answer 0

Clay’a American System

Question 1

The “Great Compromiser”, responsive for the “American System”, MO Compromise, and Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

Loyalty to one’s own regional culture and economic interests over that of the whole nation

Answer 2

Sectionalism

Question 3

Established the Federal governments right to regulate commerce (trade) between the states

Answer 3

Gibbons v Ogden (1824)

Question 4

Supreme Court decided that the “necessary and proper” (elastic) clause of the Constitution gave Congress the power to do what is needed to carry out its duties under the Constitution

Answer 4

McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

Question 5

Admitted Maine to the union as a “free” state and Missouri as a slave state to maintain the balance the balance in Congress, forbade slavery north of the MO Compromise line at 36’,30’ north latitude

Answer 5

Missouri Compromise