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History Test Chapter 10
Mr. Stringer
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History
8th Grade
02/18/2014

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What term describes government by one powerful ruler?
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Autocracy
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What term describes making malicious statements about opponents?
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Mudslinging
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What term describes a current officeholder who is running again for the same office?
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incumbent
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What term describes the selling and transporting of goods from one state to another?
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interstate commerce
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What body decided the outcome of the election of 1824?
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House of Representatives
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What temporary settlement was made over the question of the expansion of slavery in 1820 and established 36° 30´ as a boundary?
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Missouri Compromise
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What is the selling and transporting of goods from one state to another called?
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interstate commerce
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What American declaration warned Europe not to meddle with the lands of the Western Hemisphere?
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Monroe Doctrine
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What foreign power was laying claim to much of the Pacific coast of North America and thereby threatening the claims of Britain and the United States?
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Spain
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What were Creoles?
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(p. 182)people born in Latin America but of European descent
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What property did the United States buy in 1819 for $5 million?
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East Florida - Florida Purchase
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What was a closed meeting of party leaders to choose a candidate?
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Caucus
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What phrase was used to describe the years of James Monroe's presidency?
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Era of Good Feelings
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The Panic of 1819 was caused by
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too many bank notes issued by state banks.
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Which court case ruled that the "power to tax includes the power to destroy"?
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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What are mestizos?
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people who are half-Spanish and half-English
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Which man served as vice president for both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson?
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John C. Calhoun
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Whose nickname was "Old Hickory"?
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Andrew Jackson
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The supposed "corrupt bargain" was between
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Adams and Clay.
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The Monroe Doctrine
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warned against European intervention in the Americas.
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Jose de San Martín and Simón Bolívar are names associated with
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Latin America.
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Who was president during the "Era of Good Feelings"?
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James Monroe
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