APUSH Test ch. 10-14

In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of

states' rights

Match the individual with his office in the new government

A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1

Match each individual below with the correct description

A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

Western farmers were most directly affected by the exercise tax on which item?

Whiskey

Lewis and Clarke demonstrated the viability of

an overland trail to the Pacific

Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise?

After Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state, slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36°30'.

Which of the following was a result of the building of canals such as the Erie Canal?

Canals established important transportation links between the Midwest and the North.

Angry over the Jay Treaty, the French government ordered French vessels to seize American merchant ships carrying British goods. How did the United States government respond to this order?

Congress voted to increase military spending by increasing the size of the American navy and army.

Through his fiscal policies, Hamilton wanted to

Consolidate power at the national level

The argument over the creation of the Bank of the United States focused on which of the following questions?

Does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to create the bank?

Which of the following was a Federalist meeting tat was perceived as disloyalty during time of war and began the downfall of the party?

Hartford Convention

How did President Jefferson respond to the Chesapeake affair?

He increased military and naval expenditures and persuaded to enact the Embargo Act

Which of the following is true of Chief Justice John Marshall?

He made the Supreme court the equal of the branches of government in practice as well as theory.

Why did Hamilton favor the assumption of stat debts by the national government?

He wanted to give the holders of public securities financial stake in the survival of the national government

The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was

Henry Clay

John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed _____ to become ______.

Henry Clay, secretary of state

What was the significance of Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?

His decisive action made it clear that the national government would not tolerate violent resistance to its laws and now had the power to deal with such uprisings.

What was the outcome of the contested presidential election of 1796 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson was elected vice president.

The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who, more than any other federal official, was able to carry out the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning strengthening the power of the federal government was

John Marshall

Analysis of the vote in favor of a declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812 supports which of the following conclusions?

Most representatives from New England opposed the war

The major issue in Jackson's campaign for re-election in 1832 was the

Second Bank of the United States

The Rush-Bagot agreement

Severely limited British and American naval guard on Great Lakes.

Which section of the country tended to oppose tariffs?

South

What was the dispute in the 1830s Nullification Crisis?

South Carolina argued that a state had the right to override a federally-enacted tariff.

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his political support from the

South and West

Which of the following was a provision of the Adams-Onis Treaty?

Spain gave up its claims to Florida

The ______ Amendment might rightly be called the states' rights amendment

Tenth

Which of the following is true of Supreme Court's decision in Marbury v. Madison?

The Court declared that a section of the Judiciary Act of 189 was unconstitutional firmly establishing the principle of "judicial review."

Who served as the crucial guide(s), aiding Lewis and Clarke in their expedition through the Louisiana Territory?

The Shoshone woman Sacajawea

Which of the following was a result of the Louisiana Purchase?

The United States doubled its size by gaining control of the Mississippi River delta

Hwy did the war that began between France and Great Britain in 1793 pose a dilemma for the United States?

The United States was diplomatically bund to France through treaty and also owed France for its independence, but it was economically bound to Great Britain

Which of the following best describes the initial impact of the renewed conflict between Great Britain and France on American commerce?

The United States, as the world's largest neutral carrier, benefited commercially during the first two years of the war.

The Antimasons introduced which of the following to national politics

The convention system for choosing candidates

Which of the following would have been most likely to benefit form the Embargo Act?

The owner of a New England textile mill

Which of the following is true concerning the British policy of impressment?

The practice made a mockery of U.S. citizenship and was an attack on America's sovereignty.

Which of the following was a consequence of the War of the 1812?

The war served to encourage the growth of young industries such as the textile industry.

Which of the following was true of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions?

They advanced the theory that the people, speaking through their states, could judge the constitutionality of acts of Congress and nullify them.

Which of the following is not true of the Cherokee Indians?

They overwhelmingly supported the movement of Indians out of the South.

In 1838, why did thousands of Cherokees move from the Southeastern United Sates to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma?

They were forced to move by the federal government.

The hero of the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain in upper state New York was

Thomas MacDonough

Why was Aaron Burr tried for treason?

Using the West as his base, he plotted to use a military force to create a new empire.

The two most internationally recognized American writers in the 1820s were

Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.

Which of the following was true of Washington's Farewell Address?

Washington warned against entering future "entangling alliances" with other nations

In the late 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson won the deadlocked election because

a few Federalists, unwilling to elect Aaron Burr as president, decided to abstain from voting in the House of Representatives, throwing the presidential election to Jefferson

The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to

a forced enlistment

Hamilton's proposal concerning the assumption of state debts became law as a result of which of the following?

a political deal was struck by which the site for the nation's capital was to be on the Potomac River.

The outcome of the War of 1812 was a(n)

a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States

The legal basis for Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States was

based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution which gave "implied powers."

When Thomas Jefferson was elected president in 1800, one of his goals was to

limit the power of the federal government

In an effort to improve the defense of America's coastal shores, Thomas Jefferson

constructed two hundred small gunboats

Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from

customs duties (tariffs) and excise tax

In the Monroe Doctrine, the United States

demanded nonintervention by European powers in the affairs of independent nations in the New World.

After Jackson was re-elected in 1832, he took away the power of the Bank of the United States to regulate the economy by _____________.

depositing federal funds in state-chartered banks

In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court

expanded Congress's power by ruling that trade on the nation's waterways fell under the commerce clause of the Constitution.

The 1836 Specie Circular provided that only gold and silver would be acceptable as payment for

federal lands sold to speculators

The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was

hatred of Andrew Jackson

Presidential Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that

he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade.

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.

All of the following were true of Alexander Hamilton except

his intelligence was constantly under question

The Bill of Rights was intended to protect ______ against the potential tyranny of _____.

individual liberties, a strong central government

The British attack on Fort McHenry

inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key

By 1814, the British strategy included all of the following except

invading the Delaware Valleys.

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties

All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except

most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities

Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

newly won ascendancy of the masses.

The house of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when

no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College

All of the following were part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program except

paying only domestic but not foreign debts

John Quincy Adams could be described as

possessing almost none of the arts of the politician

Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining

possession of Florida from the Spanish

Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for all of the following reasons except it

put public service first, not profits

Jefferson's policy toward naturalization was seen in The Naturalization Act of 1802 which

reduced the residency requirement for citizenship to five years from fourteen established by Adams

John Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest

the "Tariff of Abominations"

The Battle of New Orleans resulted in all of the following except

the British deciding to conclude a peace treaty with the Americans at Ghent, Belgium in late 1814.

With the demise of the Federalist party following the election of 1816 the Era of Good Feelings was ushered in where

the Democratic-Republicans quickly established one-party rule.

Henry Clay embraced a program in 1824 called the American System which would create all of the following except

the constitutional right of individual states to nullify laws enacted by Congress that adversely affected their economic interests

As chief justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that

the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.

All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except

the right to vote for all citizens

Opposing the Tariff of 1828, Southerners labeled it a "Yankee Tariff" because

the tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expanse.

All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 except

their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on state militas

The purpose behind the spoils system was

to reward political supporters with public office

The Force Bill authorized President Jackson to

use arms to collect customs duties in South Carolina

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

was based on calculations of American self-interest.

The fight over the admission of Missouri to the Union

was of great political significance because Missouri's admission would disrupt the balance between slave and free states in the Senate

Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because

whites wanted the Indians' land