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Second Six Weeks MC
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11/05/2009

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Thomas Jefferson's embargo in 1807
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Led to significant increase in American manufacturing
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John C. Calhoun accepted the Tarrif of 1816 because he
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Expected the South would become a manufacturing center
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"This momentous question like a firebell in the night..." TJ said this about the
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debate over the Missouri Compromise
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The Rush-Bagot Agreement
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Ended naval competition on the Great Lakes by limiting naval forces there
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In 1825, Florida belonged to
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the United States
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The Panic of 1819
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was brought on by a severe drop in cotton prices
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The Missouri Compromise
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prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of Missouri's southern border
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In the case of McCullough v Maryland, the Supreme Court
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Denied the right of states to tax the Bank of the United States
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In 1824, the United States signed a treaty with Russia concerning
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claims in Oregon
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Andrew Jackson led American troops into Florida in 1818
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in pursuit of hostile Seminoles
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The state milita units
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often appeared at crucial moments and then disappeared
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Which of the following provided most of the money raised by the Continental Congress for the War?
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New issue of paper money
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A problem with the Spainish entry into the revolution against Britain was that Spain
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entered as an ally of France rather than the new United States
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The victory over the British at Yorktown was made possible by
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The French Navy
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Which of the following was NOT one of the provisions of the treaty ending the American Revolution?
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Congress would restore all the property confiscated from Loyalist during the war
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During the American Revolution, African American soldiers and sailors
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Were present at most major battles from Lexington to Concord

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The Prussian Baron von Steuben's great contribution to the Continental Army was

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Training its soldiers
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During the war, Virginia's govenor, Lord Dunmore
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recruited slaves to fight for the British

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The woman who asked her husband to "remember the ladies" or to risk their rebellion was
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Abigail Adams
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After the war, the most important public ritual in the United States soon became
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Independence Day
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TJ's inaugural address reflected
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A tone of simplicty and conciliation
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Marbury v Madison
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A law of Congress was declared unconstitutional
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The Lousiana Purchase was a problem for Jefferson because
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he believed that the Constitution did not give authority to acquire new land
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Besides keeping a journal of their travels, Lewis and Clark also
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drew maps of unexplored regions
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In the Essex case
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A British court ruled the enemy goods were subject to seizure even if shipped through neutral ports
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Jefferson's response to British and French interference with American shipping was
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what he referred to as a "policy of coercion"
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The greatest support for the declaration of war in 1812 came from
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The agriculture regions from Pennsylvania southward and westward
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The greatest humiliation to the US in the War of 1812 occurred when the British
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Invaded and burned Washington, D.C.
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At the Hartford Convention, delegates from New England states
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Proposed a series of constitutional amendments to limit Republican influence in government
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The British lost the batle of New Orleans because
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The frontally assaulted a strong American position
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Under the Articles of Confederation, land not included within the boundaries of the 13 original states became
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public domain, owned and administered by the national government
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Shay's Rebellion
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Resulted in some relief the following year by the state legislature
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The Virginia Plan proposed a
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Congress divided into two houses
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A key issue of disagreement between the northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention was
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Whether to count slaves in the population for determining representation in Congress
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The Constitution was to considered ratified as soon as it had been approved by
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nine of the thirteen states
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The Federalist Papers argued that
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The size and diversity of the new country would make it impossible for one faction to control the government
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All of the following are true of the Constitutional Convention except
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They had faith in the intelligence of the masses
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The Newburgh Conspiracy incident was put to rest when George Washington made this statement
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"I have grown not only gray but blind in the service of my country"
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On the issue of Women's Rights, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention
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said nothing
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Anti-Federalist leaders
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wanted a Bill of Rights to protect individuals from the new government
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Which of the following best describes the Hamiltonian Federalist?
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Pro-British, loose constiutional interpretation
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Which of the following best describes the Jeffersonian Republicans?
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Pro-French, strict constitutional interpretation
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In his farewell address, Washington appealed for
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national unity
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The question of the assumption of state debt
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was resolved in a compromise involving the location of the nations capital
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An early development of the Republican party was the alliance of the South with an anti-aristocratic group among
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New York politians
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When Britian and France went to war in 1793, the US
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Expressed neutality, warning Americans not to aid either side
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The Whiskey Rebellion ended when
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Washington sent an army larger than he ever commanded in the Revolution to put down the revolt
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A vote in Congress to create a national bank revealed
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a growing sectional division in the young United States
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that
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States could decide if the laws were unconstitutional
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The Judiciary Act of 1801
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was the legacy of the Federalist as they left office
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