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| 999041238 | All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812: | a. They were ill-trained and ill-disciplined. b. They were widely scattered. c. Most of the generals were leftovers from the Revolutionary War and lacked vigor and vision. d. There was no burning national anger to unite them | 0 | |
| 999041239 | When the United States entered the War of 1812... | it was militarily unprepared | 1 | |
| 999041240 | Why did Canada became an important battleground in the War of 1812? | because British forces were weakest there. | 2 | |
| 999041241 | The performance of the United States' Navy in the War of 1812 could be best described as... | much better than that of the army | 3 | |
| 999041242 | Why was America's campaign against Canada in the War of 1812 poorly conceived? | because it split-up the military | 4 | |
| 999041243 | What was perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812? | the Battle of Plattsburgh, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution | 5 | |
| 999041244 | British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include what? | action in Florida | 6 | |
| 999041245 | What inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner"? | The British attack on Fort McHenry | 7 | |
| 999041246 | The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place where? | at the Battle of New Orleans | 8 | |
| 999041247 | The Battle of New Orleans saw British troops defeated by whom? | Andrew Jackson's soldiers | 9 | |
| 999041248 | What resulted after the Battle of New Orleans? | nationalism and self confidence | 10 | |
| 999041249 | What was one result of the American naval victories during the War of 1812? | a British naval blockade of the American coast | 11 | |
| 999041250 | At the peace conference at Ghent, the British began to withdraw many of its earlier demands for all of the following reasons: | a. Reverses in upper New York b. A loss at Baltimore c. Increasing war weariness in Britain d. Concern about the still dangerous France | 12 | |
| 999521983 | The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that included... | a call for a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war was declared. | 13 | |
| 999521987 | The resolutions from the Hartford convention helped to cause... | the death of the Federalist Party | 14 | |
| 999521989 | From a global perspective, the War of 1812 was... | of little importance | 15 | |
| 999521990 | In diplomatic and economic terms, the War of 1812 bred... | greater American independence | 16 | |
| 999521991 | What was the outcome of the War of 1812? | a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States | 17 | |
| 999521992 | Where did the Rush-Bagot agreement limit naval armaments? | on the Great Lakes | 18 | |
| 999521994 | After the War of 1812, Europe returned to... | conservativism, illiberalism, and reaction | 19 | |
| 999521995 | What was one of the most important by-products of the War of 1812? | a heightened spirit of nationalism | 20 | |
| 999521997 | Who was one of the nationally recognized American authors in the 1820s? | Washington Irving | 21 | |
| 999521999 | Post-War 1812 nationalism could be seen in all of the following: | a. The way in which American painters depicted the beauty of American landscapes. b. The building of a more handsome national capital. c. An expanded army and navy. d. Development of a national literature. | 22 | |
| 999522001 | At the end of the War of 1812, British manufacturers began... | dumping their goods in America at extremely low prices | 23 | |
| 999522003 | The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history that did what? | aimed to protect American industry | 24 | |
| 999522004 | Henry Clay's call for federally funded roads and canals received whole-hearted endorsement from whom? | the West | 25 | |
| 999522006 | Why did New England oppose the American System's federally constructed roads? | because they would drain away needed population to the West | 26 | |
| 999522008 | Why did Democratic-Republicans oppose Henry Clay's American System? | because they believed that it was unconstitutional | 27 | |
| 999522009 | Why was The Era of Good Feelings was a misnomer? | because the period was a troubled one | 28 | |
| 999522010 | With the demise of the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republicans... | established one-party rule | 29 | |
| 999522015 | The panic of 1819 brought with it all of the following: | a. Unemployment b. Bank failures c. Debtor's prisons d. Bankruptcies | 30 | |
| 999522021 | What was one of the major causes of the panic of 1819? | overspeculation in frontier lands | 31 | |
| 999522023 | The western land boom resulted from all of the following: | a. It was a continuation of the old westward movement. b. Land exhaustion in older tobacco states c. Speculators accepted small down payments. d. The frontier was pacified with the defeat of the Indians. | 32 | |
| 999522024 | One of the demands made by the West to help it to grow was... | cheap money | 33 | |
| 999522025 | When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment in response to Missouri's request for admission to the Union, the South thought... | that the amendment would threaten the sectional balance | 34 | |
| 999522027 | What was the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River to be carved out of the Louisiana Territory? | Missouri | 35 | |
| 999522028 | As a result of the Missouri Compromise... | slavery was banned north of 36-30 in the Louisiana Purchase territory. | 36 | |
| 999522030 | All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise: | a. Extremists in both the North and South were not satisfied. b. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state. c. Maine entered the Union as a free state. d. The balance between the North and South was kept even. | 37 | |
| 999535379 | In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall favored... | "loose construction." | 38 | |
| 999522031 | What was John Marshall's famous legal dictum that he uttered in McCulloch v. Maryland? | "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" | 39 | |
| 999522032 | In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings... | limited the extent of states' rights. | 40 | |
| 999522035 | People moved into the Old Northwest for all of the following reasons: | a. Better transportation b. The Indian threat was gone c. To achieve better social position d. To get their own democratic community | 41 | |
| 999522036 | Settlers from the South who moved into the Old Northwest territory were... | known as Butternuts | 42 | |
| 999522037 | When moving to the Old Northwest, settlers from the North wanted to do all of the following: | a. tame the land b. tame the people c. build canals d. build roads | 43 | |
| 999522038 | John Marshall's rulings upheld a defense of property rights against... | public pressure in Fletcher v. Peck | 44 | |
| 999522039 | The United States' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feelings was... | John Quincy Adams | 45 | |
| 999522040 | The Treaty of 1818 with England called for a ten-year joint occupation of... | the Oregon country by both American citizens and British subjects. | 46 | |
| 999522041 | Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States... | gaining possession of Florida from the Spanish. | 47 | |
| 999522042 | Spain sold Florida to the United States because... | it could not defend the area and would lose it in any case. | 48 | |
| 999522043 | Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in Latin American countries that had successfully revolted because... | the ports of these nations were now open to lucrative trade with Britain | 49 | |
| 999522044 | The doctrine of non-colonization in the Monroe Doctrine was a response to.. | the apparent designs of the Russians in Alaska and Oregon | 50 | |
| 999522045 | At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was... | incapable of being enforced by the United States. | 51 | |
| 999522046 | Latin America's reaction to the Monroe Doctrine can best be described as... | unconcerned or unimpressed | 52 | |
| 999522047 | The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 fixed... | the southernmost limits of Russian occupation of North America at 54/40. | 53 | |
| 999522048 | The Monroe Doctrine was an expression of the illusion of... | deepening American isolationism from world affairs. | 54 |
