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VCHS APUSH Ch. 12&13
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 | there was no burning national anger to unite Americans against the British |
| The performance of the United States' Navy in the War of 1812 could be best described as | overall surprisingly successful and skillful against the accomplished British ships and commanders |
| America's military campaigns against Canada in the War of 1812 were | poorly conceived strategically and successfully repelled by the British and Canadians |
| Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812,;because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution; was the Battle of, | Plattsburgh. |
| British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in | Florida |
| The British attack on Fort McHenry | inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key |
| The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of | New Orleans |
| The Battle of New Orleans resulted in | the launching of Andrew Jackson as a national hero; an impressive American military victory over the British; a wave of patriotism washing over the entire country |
| Andrew Jackson sought to recruit free blacks to defend New Orleans by appealing to the governor of Louisiana using all of the following arguments except | many of the free black men are idle and lazy and would become better workers after the war through the discipline of military service |
| The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions in 1814 that included a call for | a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war could be declared; new states admitted; or a trade embargo instituted by the federal government |
| The resolutions enacted by the delegates at the Hartford Convention | helped to cause the death of the Federalist party |
| For Native Americans | the War of 1812 meant |
| The two most internationally recognized American writers in the 1820s were | Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history | that aimed to protect American industry |
| Henry Clay embraced a program in 1824 called the American System which would create all of the following | a strong banking system; a protective tariff to enable manufacturing to grow; a network of roads and canals for transporting foodstuffs; raw materials and manufactured goods nationwide |
| The Panic of 1819 brought with it all of the following | unemployment; bank failures of speculative "wildcat" western banks; a massive wave of personal and commercial bankruptcies |
| The western land boom from 1791 to 1824 resulted from all of the following | the Land Act of 1820 and the development of inexpensive transportation to and through the Northwest and West; acute economic distress in the East during the embargo years prompted many Americans to settle in the West; the frontier was pacified in the Nort |
| One of the West's persistent political demands was for | cheap money issued by unregulated banks |
| When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment in response to Missouri's request for admission to the Union; the South thought that the amendment | would threaten the precarious sectional balance in the country |
| All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise | the political balance between the North and South was kept even; Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; sectionalism was significantly reduced |
| John Marshall uttered his famous legal dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" in | McCulloch v Maryland |
| In the cases of Fletcher v Peck and Dartmouth College v Woodward | Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings |
| John Marshall uttered his famous legal dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" in | In McCulloch v Maryland |
| US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings almost single-handedly shaped constitutional interpretation | toward favoring nationalistic centralism and curbing the powers of popularly elected state legislatures in national political and economic affairs |
| Chief Justice John Marshall's ruling in ____ upheld the Constitution's protection of property rights against interference by a popular state law | Fletcher v Peck |
| The United States' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feelings was | John Quincy Adams |
| The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 with Great Britain | called for a ten-year joint occupation of the Oregon country by both American citizens and British subjects |
| At the time it was issued the Monroe Doctrine | was incapable of being effectively enforced by the United States armed forces. |
| Latin America's reaction to the Monroe Doctrine can best be described as | unconcerned or unimpressed |
| The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 fixed the southernmost limits of Russian occupation of North America at; 54° 40' | the present southern tip of the Alaska panhandle |
| When the Monroe Doctrine was issued in 1823 | it might more accurately have been called the American Self-Defense Doctrine |
| In the 1820s and 1830s | the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were |
| In the 1820s and 1830s | the public's attitude regarding political parties |
| By the 1840s | voter participation in the presidential election reached |
| The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when | no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College |
| People in the West tended to prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election because he | campaigned against the forces of corruption and privilege in government |
| John Quincy Adams | elected president in 1825 |
| John Quincy Adams could be described as | possessing almost none of the arts of the politician |
| Despite President Adams's discomfort | his political supporters in the election of 1828 used all of the following dirty tactics against his rival Andrew Jackson |
| Despite his suspicions of the federal government; Andrew Jackson's Democratic political party | created the spoils system in the federal government |
| Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the | newly won ascendancy of the masses |
| The purpose behind the spoils system was | to reward political supporters with public office |
| The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in | the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs |
| What interest group supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828? | Wool and textile manufacturers from New England Opposing the Tariff of 1828 |
| John C Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition was an argument for | states' rights |
| The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over | tariff policy |
| The Force Bill of 1833 provided that the | President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties |
| The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was | Henry Clay |
| The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when | Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833 |
| Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because | whites wanted the Indians' lands |
| In their treatment of Native Americans | white Americans did all of the following |
| In an effort to assimilate themselves into white society | the Cherokees did all of the following |
| The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved | forced removal from their traditional lands |
| One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the United States was | its function as a source of credit and stability |
| Andrew Jackson based his veto of the re-charter bill for the Bank of the United States on | the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation as well as unconstitutional |
| The Anti-Masonic party of 1832 appealed to | American suspicions of secret societies |
| All of the following were characteristics of Henry Clay's election campaign of 1832 | overconfidence of his campaign and the National Republicans; a hefty and ample campaign chest of $50 |
| Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following | backers of southern states' rights; large northern industrialists; backers of the American System |
| The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was | hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress |
| The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by | forcing the election into the House of Representatives |
| The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following | excessive speculation; President Jackson's banking and financial policies including the Bank War and the Specie Circular; financial problems abroad |
| The Whigs offered all of the following proposals for the remedies of the economic ills facing America in 1837 | expansion of bank credit; proposal of higher tariffs; proposal of subsidies for internal improvements |
| Americans moved into Texas | after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas three hundred families who were to become properly Mexicanized |
| The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over all of the following issues | continued legality of slavery in Texas; numerical limits on American immigration to Texas; local rights and responsibilities of Americans living in Texas |
| Texas gained its independence with | help from Americans |
| Spanish authorities allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas because | they believed that Austin and his settlers might be able to "civilize the territory |
| One major reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that the | Anglo-Texans wanted to break away from a government that had grown too authoritarian |
| Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because | antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery |
| The "Tippecanoe" in the Whigs' 1840 presidential campaign slogan was | William Harrison |
| William Henry Harrison | the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840 |
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