American Pageant Chapter 12 Flashcards

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