In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was
to be decided by popular sovereignty
The case of Marbury v.Madison involved the question of who had the right to
declare an act of congress unconstitutional
The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in
all of above
Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was
the forced separation of slave families
The First Continental Congress was called in order to
consider ways of redressing colonial grievances
In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America's military by
defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton
In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was
armed insurrection
Harriet Tubman gained fame
by helping slaves escape to Canada
Most Americans considered which of the following to be fundamental for any successful republican government?
civic virtue
The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War
The War of 1812 was one of the worst-fought wars in American history for all of the following reasons except that
there was no militia to draw on to supplement the regular army
Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following except
become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible
Members of the planter aristocracy
dominated society and politics in the South
French aid to the colonies
all of the above
The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs
All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that
sectionalism was reduced
John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except
his firing good office holders to appoint his own people
All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except
the right to vote for all citizens
President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution
Hopelessely divided the democratic party
The Era of Good Feelings
was actually a troubled period
Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in
the formation of permanent political parties
When Abraham Lincoln was the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede
The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was
henry clay
In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners
placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world
For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was
that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory
The Monroe Doctrine was
an expression of the illusion of deepening American isolationism from world affairs
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
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning
the new Fugitive Slave Law
1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except
the impulse to satisfy those asking for "spot" resolutions
Republican belief held that the stability of society and the authority of the government
depended upon the virtue of its citizenry
The Federalist-dominated Congress's Alien Act was aimed at whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at
recent immigrants, newspapers
After the War of 1812, Europe
returned to conservatism, illiberalism, and reaction
the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso
symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories
5. According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
the vote of the people in any given territory
As the War for Independence began, Britain had the advantage of
overwhelming national wealth and naval power
Alexander Hamilton's financial plan for strengthening the economy and bolstering national credit proposed all of the following except
abolishing tariffs
Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders
were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States