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