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Question #1
The protectionism that Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun urged for the country would have
A.   actively encouraged American manufacturers to establish trade links with Canadian business interests across the Great Lakes.
B.   limited the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi.
C.   imposed restrictions on imported goods to foster the development of American industry.
D.   limited access by westward moving settlers to Indian reservations and treaty designated land 'set - asides'.
Question #2
The Missouri Compromise
A.   banned slavery from territory of the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern boundary.
B.   admitted Missouri and Maine as slave states.
C.   admitted Missouri and Maine as free states.
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.   he had a cold intellectual temperament which did not win him friends.
B.   efforts to establish a national system of roads and canals was done using graft and bribery.
C.   he allowed his father, John Adams, to intervene on important national issues.
D.   it was believed he "stole" the presidential election of 1824.
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.   cotton should be declared a protected commodity.
D.   slavery could not be regulated by the national government.
Question #7
Americans became very concerned when the Holy Alliance
A.   intervened in the building of the Panama Canal.
B.   blocked British trade with North American and Latin America.
C.   declared it would ban future Protestant missions in South and Central America.
D.   announced its intention of restoring to Spain its former colonies.
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.   Federal Aid Road Act of 1916.
B.   McCulloch vs. Maryland of 1819.
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.   the invention of the cotton gin in 1793.
C.   new markets for the product in China and India.
D.   the decline in tobacco production because of the Shoebox beetle.
Question #10
The "era of good feelings" is linked to the presidency of
A.   John Quincy Adams
B.   Andrew Jackson
C.   Thomas Jefferson
D.   James Monroe

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