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Question #1
The protectionism that Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun urged for the country would have
A.   imposed restrictions on imported goods to foster the development of American industry.
B.   actively encouraged American manufacturers to establish trade links with Canadian business interests across the Great Lakes.
C.   limited the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi.
D.   limited access by westward moving settlers to Indian reservations and treaty designated land 'set - asides'.
Question #2
The Missouri Compromise
A.   admitted Missouri and Maine as slave states.
B.   admitted Missouri and Maine as free states.
C.   banned slavery from territory of the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern boundary.
D.   allowed France free access up the Mississippi River as far as St. Louis, Missouri.
Question #3
The policy known as the ________________ expressed a spirit of solidarity with the new independent republics of Latin America.
A.   Adams Act
B.   Monroe Doctrine
C.   Holy Alliance
D.   Missouri Compromise
Question #4
John Quincy Adams was not a popular president because
A.   it was believed he "stole" the presidential election of 1824.
B.   he allowed his father, John Adams, to intervene on important national issues.
C.   he had a cold intellectual temperament which did not win him friends.
D.   efforts to establish a national system of roads and canals was done using graft and bribery.
Question #5
In the presidential election of 1828, Andrew Jackson drew his support from the wealthy eastern establishment.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest declared
A.   national tariffs were Constitutionally illegal.
B.   states had the right to nullify oppressive national legislation.
C.   slavery could not be regulated by the national government.
D.   cotton should be declared a protected commodity.
Question #7
Americans became very concerned when the Holy Alliance
A.   declared it would ban future Protestant missions in South and Central America.
B.   blocked British trade with North American and Latin America.
C.   announced its intention of restoring to Spain its former colonies.
D.   intervened in the building of the Panama Canal.
Question #8
The case in which the Supreme Court established the right to review the constitutionality of any law of Congress, or state legislature, was
A.   McCulloch vs. Maryland of 1819.
B.   Federal Aid Road Act of 1916.
C.   Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
D.   Marbury vs. Madison of 1803.
Question #9
The cotton growing industry in the South was stimulated by
A.   extension of the international slave trade by Congress in 1811
B.   new markets for the product in China and India.
C.   the decline in tobacco production because of the Shoebox beetle.
D.   the invention of the cotton gin in 1793.
Question #10
The "era of good feelings" is linked to the presidency of
A.   Thomas Jefferson
B.   John Quincy Adams
C.   James Monroe
D.   Andrew Jackson

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