In the purchase of Louisiana, Jefferson violated which principle that he had earlier upheld? A) strict interpretation of executive power B) a loose construction of the Constitution C) using debt to fund national expansion D) a pro-British foreign policy ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The three elements of Henry Clay’s American System were __________. A) Indian removal, national bank, income tax B) neutrality, limited construction, larger Army and Navy C) national bank, tariff, roads and canals D) Indian removal, tariff, support of farmers ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The admission of Missouri as a slave state was balanced by the admission of what free state? A) Kentucky B) Illinois C) Vermont D) Maine ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Following the “Alabama Fever” of 1816-1820, several later surges of southern expansion carried cotton planting into __________. A) Georgia B) Texas C) Kentucky D) South Carolina ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Southern politics was largely controlled by __________. A) the slave-owning elite B) southern land speculators C) the professional class D) the small slave owners ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Southerners blamed Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy on __________. A) the invention of the cotton gin B) the publication of the Liberator C) the Missouri Compromise crisis D) British abolition of slavery in the West Indies ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was life like for slaves living on a large plantation in the South in the early nineteenth century? How much control did masters have? How did slaves exert control over their own lives? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: field work; house work; crafts and trades; punishment; community; family; religion
Date: September 9th, 2020
In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court __________. A) upheld the constitutionality of the Removal Act B) ruled that the state of Georgia could not force the Cherokees to give up their land C) gave the federal government total control of the “Indian question” D) refused to hear the Cherokees’ […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The force in Jackson’s Force Bill was using military power to __________. A) enforce the Specie Circular B) protect pro-slavery settlers in the West C) remove the Five Civilized Tribes to the West D) enforce the collection of tariff duties ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Samuel F. B. Morse is most closely associated with the invention of the __________. A) telegraph B) phonograph C) cotton gin D) telephone ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
