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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.   limited the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi.
C.   actively encouraged American manufacturers to establish trade links with Canadian business interests across the Great Lakes.
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.   Missouri Compromise
B.   Adams Act
C.   Holy Alliance
D.   Monroe Doctrine
Question #4
John Quincy Adams was not a popular president because
A.   he allowed his father, John Adams, to intervene on important national issues.
B.   efforts to establish a national system of roads and canals was done using graft and bribery.
C.   it was believed he "stole" the presidential election of 1824.
D.   he had a cold intellectual temperament which did not win him friends.
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.   states had the right to nullify oppressive national legislation.
B.   slavery could not be regulated by the national government.
C.   cotton should be declared a protected commodity.
D.   national tariffs were Constitutionally illegal.
Question #7
Americans became very concerned when the Holy Alliance
A.   intervened in the building of the Panama Canal.
B.   declared it would ban future Protestant missions in South and Central America.
C.   blocked British trade with North American and Latin 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.   Marbury vs. Madison of 1803.
D.   Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Question #9
The cotton growing industry in the South was stimulated by
A.   the invention of the cotton gin in 1793.
B.   the decline in tobacco production because of the Shoebox beetle.
C.   new markets for the product in China and India.
D.   extension of the international slave trade by Congress in 1811
Question #10
The "era of good feelings" is linked to the presidency of
A.   Thomas Jefferson
B.   Andrew Jackson
C.   John Quincy Adams
D.   James Monroe

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