Unit 3 Test

Question 1

Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court

Answer 1

Marshall made the court an equal branch of government in practice as well as theory.

Question 2

Judicial Review

Answer 2

The court can decide whether any state or federal laws violated the constitution

Question 3

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 3

A revolt in Haiti caused Nepolean to change his mind on wanting a french empire in America, and as a result, he sold Louisiana to the US for $15 million to finance his campaign against England. This doubled the size of America.

Question 4

Jefferson’s discomfort with the Louisiana purchase

Answer 4

The constitution gave the president no clear authority to acquire new territories

Question 5

Britain’s impressment claims

Answer 5

The need for a continuous blockade caused dissertations in the Royal Navy and stopped American ships, removing those suspected of deserting, and forced them to serve in the navy.

Question 6

Terms of the Treaty of Ghent

Answer 6

Restored pre-war status but didn’t resolve issues at hand.

Question 7

Hartford Convention and the Federalist party

Answer 7

Federalists wanted to reduce the power of the south, the west, and immigrants

Question 8

convention of 1818

Answer 8

renewed indefinitely in 1827

Question 9

The Monroe Doctrine and America’s involvement in European affairs

Answer 9

Noninterference by the U.S. in European affairs

Question 10

Missouri compromise

Answer 10

Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine admitted as a free state

Question 11

results of the election of 1824

Answer 11

House had to choose between Jackson and Adams and they chose Adams which caused a split. Republicans and Democrats.

Question 12

Doctrine of Nullification

Answer 12

Nullification formulated by Calhoun in 1828

Question 13

The Force act

Answer 13

Gave Jackson the authority to use military force to collect the customs duties in South Carolina

Question 14

The reason Henry Clay wanted to renew the Bank charter in 1832

Answer 14

He wanted to make it a major issue in the 1832 election

Question 15

Jackson’s perception of the political system

Answer 15

He sought to avoid the use of force

Question 16

Andrew Jackson and the destruction of the bank

Answer 16

He saw his presidential victory as a mandate to destroy the bank by depositing federal funds into state charted pet banks

Question 17

The 1836 Specie circular

Answer 17

Jackson wanted to stop speculation in public lands using borrowed paper money

Question 18

The reason the Whigs turned against Tyler

Answer 18

He vetoed whig programs

Question 19

Manifest Destiny

Answer 19

the belief that American expansion west was inevitable, divinely ordained, and just.

Question 20

The reason for the delay of the annexation of Texas

Answer 20

Texas would enter as a slave state

Question 21

Resolution for the Oregan question

Answer 21

They made the Oregan treaty which states that the US and Britain divide Oregan at the 49th parallel

Question 22

Slave power conspiracy

Answer 22

The belief that a slaveholding aristocracy was in control in the south

Question 23

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 23

would prevent slavery in any territory gained from Mexico

Question 24

The most crucial issue most Americans considered facing the nation by 1850

Answer 24

Slavery

Question 25

How Douglas salvaged the Compromise of 1850

Answer 25

Introduced each measure of the compromise as a separate bill

Question 26

The most controversial section of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 26

Fugitive slave law

Question 27

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 27

Brought the issue of slavery home to many that had not before given it much thought.

Question 28

The reason for Northern outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 28

The act repealed the Missouri compromise

Question 29

Know-Nothings

Answer 29

New anti-immigrant party active from the mid-1850s to 1856

Question 30

The decision in the Dred Scott case regarding slavery in the territories

Answer 30

Slavery could not be prohibited in the territories by congress

Question 31

The Lecompton constitution

Answer 31

New election to the territorial legislature returned an anti-slavery majority

Question 32

freeport doctrine

Answer 32

A territorial legislature could bar slavery either by passing a law against it or by doing nothing

Question 33

The intended goal of John Brown’s raid

Answer 33

to start a slave rebellion in Virginia