Us History Unit Iii Exam

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Judith Sargent Murray insisted that women had as much right as men to exercise all their talents and needed what to do this?

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educational opportunities

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What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?

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It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly dedicated to a weak central government.

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In its decision in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court:

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exercised the authority to overturn a state law that the Court considered in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

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Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states?

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Tripoli had declared war on the United States after Jefferson had refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates.

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The Sedition Act of 1798:

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led Jefferson to argue that it was a violation of the First Amendment.

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The Kentucky resolution originally stated that:

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states could nullify laws of Congress.

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The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against:

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Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

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The treaty that ended the War of 1812:

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restored the prewar status quo.

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Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812?

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The Hartford Convention’s allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist Party’s reputation.

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Opponents of Hamilton’s economic plan:

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agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South.

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With whom did Alexander Hamilton and his supporters believe that the United States needed to cultivate a firm relationship in order to survive as a nation?

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the British

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Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to:

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make the United States a major commercial and military power.

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Which one of the following is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule?

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Free blacks had nearly the same rights as white citizens.

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Pierre Charles L’Enfant is well known for:

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;designing Washington, D.C.

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:

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the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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Which one of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton’s proposals?

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The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America’s future.

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"Strict constructionists” believed:

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the federal government could exercise only powers specifically listed in the Constitution.

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Which one of the following is NOT true of the presidential election of 1800?

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Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election.

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Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election

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Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism.

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What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?

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The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review.

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The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from:

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Germany and Ireland.

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The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in:

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transportation and communication.

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The “American System of manufactures”:

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relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts.

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Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?

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Methodist

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The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century:

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stimulated the coal-mining industry.

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Most of the states that entered the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located:

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west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to:

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a divine mission.

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What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

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Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.

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Which one of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin?

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The completion of the Erie Canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day.

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What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s?

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Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power.

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The “German triangle” in the mid-nineteenth century referred to:

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Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee—cities with large German populations.

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Women who worked at the Lowell mills:

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lived in closely supervised boardinghouses.

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The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?

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New York

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For which one of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s?

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increased Protestantism

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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was:

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textiles.

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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans?

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Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks.

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Which one of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South?

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The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east.

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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?

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cotton

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The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to:

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focus her energies on the home and children.

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At the Lowell textile mills:

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the owners established lecture halls, churches, and a worker-edited periodical to occupy the workers’ free time.

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The Force Act of 1833:

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gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs

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Thomas Jefferson suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820–1821:

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revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.

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A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

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that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.

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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:

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did not exist for white males in the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen.

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By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics:

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often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:

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promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.

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The Monroe Doctrine:

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declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.

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The nullification crisis:

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involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.

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The nullification crisis ended:

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with a compromise tariff.

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In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?

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Andrew Jackson

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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:

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the spoils system

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Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

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the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free areas.

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Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina’s Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?

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Daniel Webster

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Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?

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John C. Calhoun

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The Panic of 1837:

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was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.

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By 1840, approximately __________ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.

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90

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decisi

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supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.

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How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?

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He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.

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In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:

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Indians were wards of the federal government.

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Many of the members of Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:

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newspaper editors.