front 1 In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was | back 1 to be decided by popular sovereignty |
front 2 The case of Marbury v.Madison involved the question of who had the right to | back 2 declare an act of congress unconstitutional |
front 3 The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in | back 3 all of above |
front 4 Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was | back 4 the forced separation of slave families |
front 5 The First Continental Congress was called in order to | back 5 consider ways of redressing colonial grievances |
front 6 In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America's military by | back 6 defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton |
front 7 In the pre-Civil War South, the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance was | back 7 armed insurrection |
front 8 Harriet Tubman gained fame | back 8 by helping slaves escape to Canada |
front 9 Most Americans considered which of the following to be fundamental for any successful republican government? | back 9 civic virtue |
front 10 The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have | back 10 prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War |
front 11 The War of 1812 was one of the worst-fought wars in American history for all of the following reasons except that | back 11 there was no militia to draw on to supplement the regular army |
front 12 Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following except | back 12 become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible |
front 13 Members of the planter aristocracy | back 13 dominated society and politics in the South |
front 14 French aid to the colonies | back 14 all of the above |
front 15 The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in | back 15 the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs |
front 16 All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that | back 16 sectionalism was reduced |
front 17 John Quincy Adams's weaknesses as president included all of the following except | back 17 his firing good office holders to appoint his own people |
front 18 All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except | back 18 the right to vote for all citizens |
front 19 President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution | back 19 Hopelessely divided the democratic party |
front 20 The Era of Good Feelings | back 20 was actually a troubled period |
front 21 Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in | back 21 the formation of permanent political parties |
front 22 When Abraham Lincoln was the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina | back 22 rejoiced because it gave them an excuse to secede |
front 23 The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was | back 23 henry clay |
front 24 In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners | back 24 placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the Western world |
front 25 For a majority of northerners, the most outrageous part of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case was | back 25 that Congress had never had the power to prohibit slavery in any territory |
front 26 The Monroe Doctrine was | back 26 an expression of the illusion of deepening American isolationism from world affairs |
front 27 Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it | back 27 marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties |
front 28 The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning | back 28 the new Fugitive Slave Law |
front 29 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except | back 29 the impulse to satisfy those asking for "spot" resolutions |
front 30 Republican belief held that the stability of society and the authority of the government | back 30 depended upon the virtue of its citizenry |
front 31 The Federalist-dominated Congress's Alien Act was aimed at whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at | back 31 recent immigrants, newspapers |
front 32 After the War of 1812, Europe | back 32 returned to conservatism, illiberalism, and reaction |
front 33 the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included | back 33 United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico |
front 34 The Wilmot Proviso | back 34 symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories |
front 35 5. According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by | back 35 the vote of the people in any given territory |
front 36 As the War for Independence began, Britain had the advantage of | back 36 overwhelming national wealth and naval power |
front 37 Alexander Hamilton's financial plan for strengthening the economy and bolstering national credit proposed all of the following except | back 37 abolishing tariffs |
front 38 Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders | back 38 were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France |
front 39 The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that | back 39 slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States |