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Chapter 7
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Although Macon's Bill No.2 temporarily removed all restrictions on trade,
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non-intercourse would be reapplied to either major power if the other ceased violating American neutral rights.
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President Madison reapplied the non-intercourse policy to Great Britain because
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he mistakenly believed that France was no longer seizing American ships.
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One of the major reasons for American entry in the War of 1812 was the
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American belief that the British were inspiring Native American resistance to American expansion.
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The Shawnee chief who tried to bind all of the tribes east of the Mississippi into a great confederation in the early 1800's was...
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Tecumseh
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Tecumseh's brother, Tenskwatawa (or "The Prophet")...
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declared Native Americans should reject white ways, clothes, and liquor.
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In the early 1800's, American settlers blamed frontier warfare on a scheme by...
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the British.
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Among the causes of the War of 1812 was the...
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desire of Westerners to expand into Canada and Florida.
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The War Hawks called for war against Great Britain because they...
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wanted to defend the national honor and save the republic from British domination.
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The greatest opposition to the War of 1812 came from...
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shipowners.
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In the War of 1812, Captain Isaac Hull commanded the frigate  ________ to a brilliant victory over the H.M.S. Guerriere.
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Constitution
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In the War of 1812, the most effective American action against British shipping was by...
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privateering merchantmen.
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The map "The War of 1812" depicts the British tactic in America of a(n)...
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naval blockade of the American coast.
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The British changed their strategy against the United States in 1814 because...
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the war in Europe, which had diverted their attention earlier, was now over.
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The major U.S. city sacked and burned by the British in 1814 was...
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Washington.
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The Treaty of Ghent(1814) ending the War of 1812...
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simply reestablished the staus quo ante bellum.
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During the War of 1812, Federalists in New England...
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refused to provide militia to aid in the fight.
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In January 1815, which of the following gave states the right to assert their authority should "deliberate, dangerous and palpable infractions of the Constitution" be made?
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the Hartford Convention
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As a result of the War of 1812, the Federalists...
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were discredited as a political party.
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The Battle of New Orleans in 1815 resulted in the...
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emergence of Andrew Jackson as a military hero.
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The measure in which Great Britain and the United States agreed to set a limit on the number of armed vessels on the Great Lakes was the...
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Rush-Bagot Agreement
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The American general who pursued the Seminole Native Americans into Florida and seized two Spanish forts was...
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Andrew Jackson
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The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819...
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transferred Florida to the United States for $5 million and settled the southern boundary of the Louisiana territory to the Pacific.
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The Monroe Doctrine...
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hoped to isolate the United States from involvement in European affairs.
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The Monroe Doctrine's warning against European interference in America came because ________ colonies rebelled to gain their independence.
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Spain's
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"The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, and henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." The source of this quote is...
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the Monroe Doctrine.
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What "may be seen as the final stage in the evolution of American independence"?
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Monroe Doctrine
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The "Era of Good Feelings" was noted for the...
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absence of organized political parties opposing each other.
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By 1820 the American population and geographic area both...
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doubled.
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The original Bank of the United States that Hamilton proposed...
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did not have its charter renewed when it expired in 1811.
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The depression of 1819 was worsened by the policies of...
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the second Bank of the United States.
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Western opinion on public land policy in the early nineteenth century generally favored...
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reducing the price and the minimum size offered for sale.
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The group which consistently favored low prices and easy credit for western lands was...
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westerner settlers.
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How was slavery a sectional issue before 1820?
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Most white Americans saw slavery as mainly a local issue.
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The best known political leader of the North in the early 1820's, who served brilliantly as Monroe's secretary of state, was...
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John Quincy Adams.
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The gregarious New York politician who never took a political position if he could avoid doing so and who led a political machine known as the Albany Regency was...
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Martin Van Buren.
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In the 1820's, the most prominent southern leader, the highly successful secretary of the treasury under Monroe, was...
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William H. Crawford.
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John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was...
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devoted to the South, but known for his broad national view of political affairs.
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The outstanding western leader of the 1820's, combining a charismatic personality with great skills at arranging political compromises, was...
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Henry Clay.
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The essential question involved in the Missouri Compromise was whether or not Missouri would...
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come into the Union as a free or slave state.
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As a result of the Missouri Compromise, which two states were admitted into the Union?
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Missouri and Maine
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The vote in the House of Representatives on Tallmadge's amendment to the Missouri Enabling Act in 1819 demonstrated that...
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the rapidly growing North controlled the House of Representatives.
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Northern objections to admitting Missouri as a slave state were based on...
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the overrepresentation they thought Missouri would have because of the Three-Fifths Compromise.
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The state admitted to the Union on the condition that, in the future, slavery was prohibited in the area of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36°30' line was...
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Missouri.
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The election of 1824 was waged on mainly personal grounds because the...
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previous party system had collapsed.
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The president chosen in 1824 by the House of Representatives when no candidate received a majority of votes in the Electoral College was...
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John Quincy Adams.
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As president, John Quincy Adams...
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was an inept politician.
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The Tariff of 1828 was so high that in the South it was called the...
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Tariff of Abominations.
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The "Tariff of Abominations" was

so-called by its detractors because it...

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threatened to impoverish the South with its excessively high rates.
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The author of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest who, drawing on the works of John Locke, stated that it was within the authority of a state to nullify a law within its boundaries if a state convention found an act of Congress unconstitutional was...
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John C. Calhoun
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In the face of growing sectionalism, which of the following was NOT a unifying force among the American landscape?
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the ideas of preeminent politicians, such as those found in Calhoun's Exposition and Protest.
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