Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
1. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793:
A) tied the southern economy to cotton production.
B) undermined the plantation system.
C) slowed expansion into the Southwest.
D) revived the subject of abolitionism.
2. Why was the family important to the slave community?
A) It taught them how to be assimilated into white society.
B) Slave families were given preferential treatment by slave
owners.
C) It provided unity and stability for its slave family members.
D) It protected its members from the master.
3. Why did slave owners introduce their slaves to Christian
religion?
A) To use religion to help prevent cruel treatment.
B) To allow the slaves religious freedom.
C) To educate the slaves in their proper role in society.
D) To provide the slaves an opportunity for a education.
4. In his first inaugural address, Jefferson indicated his desire
for:
A) revenge of the Federalists.
B) war with Great Britain and France to secure neutral rights.
C) minimizing the differences between Federalists and
Republicans "we are all Federalists, we are all Republicans."
D) increased government spending to provide better services for
citizens.
5. In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall cleverly
established the power of the Supreme Court to:
A) issue writs which could order government officials to perform
certain duties.
B) invalidate federal laws held to be in conflict with the
Constitution or idea judicial review.
C) award damages to governmental officials deprived of their
jobs.
D) remove governmental officials who refused to perform their
duties.
6. For Jefferson, one of the most important reasons for the
Louisiana Purchase was that it:
A) secured access to the mouth of the Mississippi River.
B) supported American claims to gold deposits in the Midwest.
C) opened new territory for the expansion of slavery.
D) provided land which could be used to back up the new paper
money issued by the National Bank.
7. The Louisiana Purchase:
A) secured Florida for the U.S..
B) was completed partially because Napoleon needed money.
C) was offered by French Foreign Minister Talleyrand against
Napoleon's wishes.
D) was clearly permissible because the Constitution gave the
federal government the right to purchase territory.
8. The British violated the neutrality rights of the United States
between 1805-1812 in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A) by the impressment of U.S. seamen.
B) by seizure of U.S. ships bound for Europe.
C) by violation of U.S. coastal waters.
D) by placing an embargo on all U.S. commerce.
9. Among the causes of the War of 1812 was the British:
A) burning of public buildings in Washington, D.C..
B) repeal of the Orders in Council.
C) violation of the neutrality rights.
D) plan to invade the United States from Canada.
10. Britain was willing to sign the Treaty of Ghent, to end the War
of 1812, without notable gains because:
A) its European difficulties made peace and possibly even
alliance with U.S. urgent and it was a chance to stop
fighting.
B) the U.S. victory at New Orleans was overwhelming.
C) it was ready to concede that the U.S. was an equal in
military power.
D) it had exhausted all of its military power.
11. Where states' rights and national power were involved, the
Marshall Court:
A) tended to favor national supremacy over the states.
B) tended to favor states' rights.
C) refused to hear the cases because of their "political"
nature.
D) showed no clear leaning toward either side.
12. A senate debate over nullification featured brilliant oration
from both:
A) Robert Hayne and Daniel Webster.
B) Henry Clary and Daniel Webster.
C) Robert Hayne and Thomas Benton.
D) John C. Calhoun and Thomas Hart Benton.
13. All of the following are true about Jackson's view of
nullification EXCEPT:
A) he showed his strong belief in the sanctity of the Union.
B) he had developed a dislike of Calhoun and this affected his
view of nullification.
C) he supported a Force Bill in reaction to South Carolina's
attempt to nullify federal tariffs.
D) He favored letting the states determine tariffs.
14. President Jackson vetoed the bill to re charter the Second Bank
of the United States because:
A) he wanted to stop the practice of speculators setting up "pet
banks" in various states.
B) he wanted to give Henry Clay an election issue in 1832.
C) he felt that the bank did not help Western farmers and that
it helped to create the wealthy Northeast.
D) the bill called for the removal of federal deposits from the
bank.
15. Dorothea Dix was:
A) an extremely effective crusader for the rights of mentally
ill persons.
B) the head of the American Temperance Society.
C) a leading new England transcendentalist.
D) a leading organizer of communitarian experiments.
16. A reaction to the immigrants becoming important in the labor
force and having political power was all of these EXCEPT:
A) the rise of nativism.
B) the Know Nothing party.
C) the increase in wages.
D) the demand by some to stop immigration.
Multiple-Choice
1. A Type: MC - 2
2. C Type: MC - 6
3. C Type: MC - 7
4. C Type: MC - 1
5. B Type: MC - 2
6. A Type: MC - 3
7. B Type: MC - 4
8. D Type: MC - 10
9. C Type: MC - 12
10. A Type: MC - 16
11. A Type: MC - 25
12. A Type: MC - 33
13. D Type: MC - 36
14. C Type: MC - 37
15. A Type: MC - 45
16. C Type: MC - 56