AP United States History – Reading Quiz



AP United States History – Reading Quiz

Chapter 10 – Nationalism and Sectionalism

Multiple Choice

1. Ironically, Thomas Jefferson’s embargo in 1807:

a. led to a significant increase in American manufacturing.

b. ended Republican control of the government.

c. encouraged farmers to grow less foodstuffs and more cotton.

d. helped perpetuate slavery.

2. In the first half of the nineteenth century, internal improvements:

a. finally became the responsibility of the national government.

b. were supported mainly by the people in the West.

c. were supported mainly by the people in New England and the South.

d. were supported mainly by the people who held to a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

3. Whose presidential administration was characterized by the era of good feelings?

a. John Q. Adams

b. Andrew Jackson

c. James Madison

d. James Monroe

4. In 1825, Florida belonged to:

a. France.

b. Great Britain.

c. Spain.

d. The United States.

5. The Missouri Compromise:

a. was debated almost wholly on moral grounds.

b. brought Vermont into the Union as a free state.

c. allowed for the freedom of all slaves in Missouri at the age of 25.

d. prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of Missouri’s southern border.

6. In the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court:

a. began to retreat from the nationalism of the Marshall years.

b. upheld the right of immigrants to vote.

c. upheld the rights of state banks to issue currency.

d. denied the rights of states to tax the Bank of the United States.

7. The decisions of the Supreme Court in the early nineteenth century were generally:

a. strongly in favor of national authority over the states.

b. protective of the rights of state governments.

c. based on a literal and strict interpretation of the Constitution.

d. hostile to the development of business.

8. In 1824, the United States signed a treaty with Russia concerning:

a. claims in Alaska.

b. claims in Oregon.

c. trading rights in the Atlantic.

d. trading rights in the Pacific.

9. The Erie Canal was significant because it

a. challenged railroads as the primary transportation system of the early 1800s.

b. tied the manufacturing of the East to the farming of the West.

c. was the first federally funded internal improvement.

d. stimulated subsistence farming and manufacturing in the West.

True or False (A = True and B=False)

10. The United States experienced a period of economic prosperity in the years after the War of 1812.

11. The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1826.

12. As a territory, Missouri had not allowed slavery.

13. Four presidential candidates received electoral votes in 1824.

14. The U.S. policy toward Africa declared by President Monroe on December 2, 1823 became known as the Monroe Doctrine.

15. The Rush-Bagot Agreement strictly limited naval armament on the Great Lakes for both Great Britain and the United States.

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