Due in 40 minutes Question 12 pts In 1832 a South Carolina state convention:  declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state.  ordered the state militia to arrest customs officials and impound their collections.  declared that the state had seceded from the Union.  threatened to raise an army to march on Washington, D.C., and arrest Jackson for his unconstitutional actions. Flag this Question Question 22 pts In what way did John C. Calhouns arguments in the Nullification crisis fit into American constitutional and political history?  They postponed arguments based on states rights until well into the twentieth century. They revived arguments made by the Antifederalists in the debate over the Constitutions ratification and by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.  They rested on the principle that the checks and balances built into the Constitution tended to make government tyrannical.  They rested on the assertion that sovereignty lay with the people of the United States, not with the various political units.  Flag this Question Question 32 pts When southern cotton producers moved West, they moved primarily to:  Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan, and Wisconsin. northern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.  southern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.  Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  Flag this Question Question 42 pts Samuel Slater:  was a British manufacturer who decided to relocate his cotton mill to the United States in 1796 because of his republican sympathies.  had worked for the British inventor who developed the most advanced machinery for spinning cotton, and he was able to replicate these machines from memory after he immigrated to the United States in 1789.  became a partner with the American merchant Richard Arkwright to set up the first American cotton mill in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1790.  was a wealthy Boston merchant who in 1811 spent a holiday touring British textile mills and secretly took notes on what he saw, so as later to be able to build an improved version of the machinery in New England. Flag this Question Question 52 pts British textile manufacturers were able to out-compete American manufacturers because they possessed all of the following advantages except:  low shipping rates.   low interest rates.   low wages.  abundant cotton production at home. Flag this Question Question 62 pts During his presidency, John Ouincy Adams:  became the most popular president since George Washington but decided not to seek reelection, saying, If my country wants my services, she must ask for them. joined with southern state officials to start the removal of native Americans from the Southeast.  failed to use political patronage to reward his supporters, maintaining hostile politicians in their offices as long as they were competent.  perfected the use of political patronage within his party.  Flag this ...

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Question 12
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In 1832 a South Carolina state convention:
declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the
state.
ordered the state militia to arrest customs officials and impound
their collections.
declared that the state had seceded from the Union.
threatened to raise an army to march on Washington, D.C., and
arrest Jackson for his unconstitutional actions.
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Question 22
pts
In what way did John C. Calhouns arguments in the
Nullification crisis fit into American constitutional and political
history?
They postponed arguments based on states rights until well into
the twentieth century.

2. They revived arguments made by the Antifederalists in the
debate over the Constitutions ratification and by Jefferson and
Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.
They rested on the principle that the checks and balances built
into the Constitution tended to make government tyrannical.
They rested on the assertion that sovereignty lay with the
people of the United States, not with the various political units.
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Question 32
pts
When southern cotton producers moved West, they moved
primarily to:
Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
northern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
southern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
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Question 42
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3. Samuel Slater:
was a British manufacturer who decided to relocate his cotton
mill to the United States in 1796 because of his republican
sympathies.
had worked for the British inventor who developed the most
advanced machinery for spinning cotton, and he was able to
replicate these machines from memory after he immigrated to
the United States in 1789.
became a partner with the American merchant Richard
Arkwright to set up the first American cotton mill in
Providence, Rhode Island, in 1790.
was a wealthy Boston merchant who in 1811 spent a holiday
touring British textile mills and secretly took notes on what he
saw, so as later to be able to build an improved version of the
machinery in New England.
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Question 52
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British textile manufacturers were able to out-compete
American manufacturers because they possessed all of the
following advantages except:
low shipping rates.
low interest rates.
low wages.

4. abundant cotton production at home.
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Question 62
pts
During his presidency, John Ouincy Adams:
became the most popular president since George Washington
but decided not to seek reelection, saying, If my country wants
my services, she must ask for them.
joined with southern state officials to start the removal of native
Americans from the Southeast.
failed to use political patronage to reward his supporters,
maintaining hostile politicians in their offices as long as they
were competent.
perfected the use of political patronage within his party.
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Question 72
pts
The free workers who faced the worst working and living
conditions were:
mill hands.

5. mechanics.
day laborers.
canal-boat crews.
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Question 82
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In his view of states rights, John C. Calhoun be-lieved that:
each state supreme court had the power to determine whether a
federal law would be law in that state.
a state convention in any state could declare a federal law null
and void in that state alone; such a decree would stand only
until the Constitution was amended by three-fourths of all the
states to give the federal government the power to carry out the
nullified law.
a state convention in any state could be called to declare a
federal law null and void in all the states.
each state legislature should be consulted when national laws
were passed.
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Question 92

6. pts
Between roughly the 1790s and the 1840s there were three
major streams, or migration patterns, of people settling the
American interior. Which of the following was
not
one of these streams?
from the Northeast, upstate New York, and the Middle Atlantic
states into the Great Lakes Basin
from the area of the old southern colonies into the Old
Southwest
from New Orleans up the Mississippi River Valley into the Ohio
and Missouri Valleys
from the Chesapeake region and the Upper South into the
southern parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
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Question 102
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For political advice, President Jackson relied on:
several key western senators, such as Henry Clay and Thomas
Hart Benton.
his cabinet officers.
an informal group of advisors, called the Kitchen Cabinet.

7. Vice-President John C. Calhoun.
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Question 112
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According to a letter by Margaret Bayard Smith, Andrew
Jacksons first inauguration was:
a thoroughly raucous affair, with the Democratic Party
encouraging Jacksons supporters to stage a boisterous parade
before he took the oath and then to mob the White House
reception
marred by his supporters mobbing the White House during a
post-inaugural reception.
quiet and dignified; reports of raucous behavior by his
supporters were unfounded.
the first such ceremony in history to feature military parades,
honoring Jacksons victory in the Battle of New Orleans.
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Question 122
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Cities such as Buffalo, Chicago, and Detroit grew rapidly in
the 1830s because:

8. they facilitated the transfer of goods between the East and the
West.
their mayors and other city officials used public funds to build
new ports and harbors to increase trade.
they were located where goods had to be transferred from one
mode of transportation to another.
their location facilitated the use of water power in factories.
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Question 132
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In 1830 Jackson vetoed a bill to extend the National Road to
Lexington, Kentucky, giving as his reason:
his preference that a company headed by his own supporters
build the road.
that it was an infringement on the power of the states.
his fear that the road would facilitate the flight of fugitive
slaves.
Kentuckians failure to support him in the 1828 election.
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Question 142

9. pts
Jacksons practice of appointing loyal members of his party to
public offices became known as:
the caucus system.
the spoils system.
patronage.
the rotation system.
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Question 152
pts
From 1820 to 1840 the most rapidly growing American cities
were:
those west of the Mississippi River.
the new industrial towns that sprang up along the fall line.
the cotton-trading centers of the South.
those west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Question 162

10. pts
All of the following men were candidates for the presidency in
1824 except:
John Quincy Adams
William H. Crawford.
James Monroe.
Henry Clay.
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Question 172
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In Cincinnati, which became an important meatpacking center in
the 1830s and 1840s, the introduction of factory methods in the
packing industry meant that:
large numbers of farm families throughout southern Ohio and
northern Kentucky were enlisted in an outwork system of hog
butchers and meat picklers.
a few simple mechanical devices were used along an assembly
line of meat packers who each had a specific task.
sophisticated meat-processing machinery was imported from
Great Britain and operated by experienced factory workers.
rural workers were retrained in the new technical skills they
would need as factory workers.

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Question 182
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In an anonymous tract,
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest,
John C. Calhoun:
argued that only a referendum by the people could decide
whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional.
argued that the federal government could never interfere with
southern slavery
claimed that any dissident state had the option of seceding from
the Union if three-fourths of the other states ratified an
amendment giving Congress the power to enforce a law that the
state considered unconstitutional.
refuted the arguments of Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky
and Virginia resolutions of 1798.
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Question 192
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Which of the following can most accurately be described as
significant characteristics of the industrial and market
revolution that occurred in the American economy during the

12. first half of the nineteenth century?
By 1860 the United States became the worlds fifth-ranking
manufacturing nation, behind only Britain, France, Germany,
and the Netherlands.
Business leaders of the Northeast drove mechanization forward
and incorporated the trans-Appalachian West into the industrial
economy.
Productivity declined as standards of industrial craftsmanship
were lost.
All of the above.
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Question 202
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In their sweep to victory in 1828, Jackson and Calhoun captured
states in all of the following regions except:
New England.
the Upper South.
the Old Northwest.
the mid-Atlantic region.
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13. Question 212
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All of the following were technological innovations introduced
by the Connecticut inventor Eli Whitney except the:
prototype of the cotton gin.
first milling machine to cut metal.
first fully developed system of mass production.
idea of interchangeable parts in the production process.
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Question 222
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The corrupt bargain was the political intrigue that resulted when
the presidential election of 1824 was decided in the House of
Representatives; the essence of the arrangement was:
Jacksons successful effort to get John C. Calhoun to withdraw
from the presidential race and become his vice-presidential
running mate, with the understanding that Calhoun would run
for president in the next election.
John Quincy Adamss apparent deal with Henry Clay whereby
Clays supporters in the House voted for Adams, who then
named Clay his secretary of state.
bribes paid by John Quincy Adamss wealthy New England

14. backers to purchase the votes of enough members of the House
to ensure his election.
the efforts of the three slave-holding presidential candidates
(Jackson, Crawford, and Clay) to unite to block the election of
anti-slavery John Ouincy Adams; the effort collapsed when Clay
refused to withdraw, thereby enabling Adams to win.
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Question 232
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The development of machine tools is significant because they:
facilitated the repair of complicated equipment.
produced machines that made standardized parts rapidly and
cheaply.
produced machines that could be run by women and children
factory workers.
were of higher quality than similar British equipment.
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Question 242
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The places where rivers cascaded from the Appalachian
foothills to the Atlantic coastal plain are significant in the

15. history of American industrialization because:
early industrial entrepreneurs had to avoid them in order to keep
their machinery from being damaged by rust.
here water-powered mills and factories were most efficiently
operated.
the falling water made it easy to generate electrical power for
factories.
they divided the areas of the eastern seaboard in which British
machinery could be cheaply imported from places where
transportation costs made the use of such machinery
prohibitively expensive.
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Question 252
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Beginning in the late 1810s, one state after another revised its
constitution to broaden popular participation in politics. This
change was primarily a consequence of:
an assault on the old deferential order of American society,
driven by the settlement of the trans-Appalachian West.
the popularity of Andrew Jackson as a champion of democratic
politics immediately following his victory over the British at
New Orleans.
encouragement by presidents James Madison and James
Monroe, both staunch Jeffersonian democrats.

16. the Second Great Awakening and especially the support that
popular preachers like Charles Grandison Finney gave to the
dignity of ordinary people.