Question 1

The Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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Said the Supreme Court had the power to review an act of Congress

Question 2

The invention of the cotton gin in the late eighteenth century

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Had a profound effect on the textile industry in New England.

Question 3

During the Jefferson administration, the British claimed the right to stop American merchant ships and seize

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Naturalized Americans born on British soil

Question 4

Tecumseh

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Believed the only effective means to resist white settlers was Indian tribal unity.

Question 5

Jefferson's Embargo of 1807

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Created a serious economic depression in the nation.

Question 6

Which statement about the War of 1812 is true?

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Despite some opposition, the United States entered the war with enthusiasm and optimism

Question 7

The United States went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

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Prevent France from recapturing the Louisiana Territory

Question 8

The Second Great Awakening

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Began as an eﬀort by church establishments to revitalize their organizations

Question 9

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Maintained the nation's equal number of slave and free states

Question 10

The Monroe Doctrine declared that

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European powers should not engage in new colonization of the American continents

Question 11

In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Marshall Court ruled the Indians could stay on their land and that Georgia had to allow them to, thus aﬃrming federal authority over

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Both individual states and all American Indian tribes

Question 12

The  "corrupt bargain" of 1824 involved

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A political deal to determine the outcome of the presidential election

Question 13

The "Trail of Tears" traveled by the Cherokees led them to the area that later became

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Oklahoma

Question 14

John C. Calhoun drew his doctrine of nulliﬁcation ideas from the

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Ideas of Madison and Jefferson, and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution

Question 15

In his doctrine of nulliﬁcation, John C. Calhoun argued that

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States were the ﬁnal authority on the constitutionality of federal laws

Question 16

In an attempt to end the nulliﬁcation crisis, President Andrew Jackson in 1833

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Threatened the use of military force to see the federal laws were obeyed

Question 17

Although the Supreme Court found in favor of the Cherokee tribes in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia, President Jackson decided

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The Court could not enforce the order, and pushed for removal

Question 18

As president, Andrew Jackson believed the power of the federal government

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Should be reduced, and yet was supreme over individual states

Question 19

The "spoils system" refers to

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Giving out jobs as political rewards

Question 20

Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that

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Political participation by the common man should be increased

Question 21

The "era of good feelings" following the War of 1812 reflected

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Rising nationalism and optimism in the United States

Question 22

One cause of the Panic of 1819 was

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Restrictive credit practices prior to 1819.

Question 23

By 1820, American steam-powered shipping

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Increased the transport of manufactured goods westward.
Carried more cargo on the Mississippi than all other forms of river transport combined
Had reached as far up the Ohio River as Pittsburgh.

Question 24

The great majority of Irish immigrants settled in the

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Eastern cities.

Question 25

As the factory system progressed into the 1840s,

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The owners increasingly used immigrants as their labor force.

Question 26

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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Nat Turner.

Question 27

Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War white Southerners was their

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Perception of white racial superiority.

Question 28

Short-staple cotton

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Helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region.

Question 29

Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from

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Ireland and Germany.

Question 30

By 1860, factories in the United States

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Were concentrated in the Northeast.

Question 31

Most white Southerners held

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No enslaved people.

Question 32

Prior to 1860, the fastest-growing segment in American society was the

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Middle class.

Question 33

By 1860, as a result of the social expectations expressed in the "cult of domesticity,"

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Women became increasingly isolated from the public world.

Question 34

The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in

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Increasing disparities in income between the rich and poor.

Question 35

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the "cotton kingdom"

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Was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.

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