Chapter 8: A New National Identity Test

How did the United States settle international issues after the War of 1812?

• The Treaty of Ghent
• diplomacy
• Rush-Bagot Agreement
• Convention of 1818

James Monroe was elected as President in...

• 1814
• 1815
• 1816
• 1817

Which is not one of the four basic points of the Monroe Doctrine?

• The United States would interfere in the affairs of European nations.
• The  United States would recognize, and not interfere with, colonies that already existed in North and South America.
• The Western Hemisphere was to be off-limits to future colonization by any foreign power.
• The U.S. government would consider any European powers attempt to colonize or interfere with any nation in the Western Hemisphere to be a hostile act..

What was the first road built by the federal government?

• Austin Road
• Erie Canal Road
• Cumberland Road
• American Road

What is one of the conditions from the Missouri compromise?

• Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state.
• Maine would join the Union as a free state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal.
• Slavery would be prohibited in any new territories or states formed north of 36 degrees 30' latitude--Missouri's southern border.
• All of the above. 

Disagreements between the different regions is knows as...

• sectionalism.
• Nationalism
• American System.
• arguing.

What inspired the writer and artists of America during the early 1800s

• American History and American Lanscape
• American History and American War
• American War and American People
• American People and American Landscape

Spirituals are a type of folk hymn found in two types of folk-music tradition, what two types are those?

• White & Spanish-American
• Spanish-American & Mexican-American
• Mexican-American & African-American
• African-American & White

Who published the first dictionary of American-not British- English dictionary?

• James Fenimore Cooper
• Washington Irving
• Noah Webster
• Thomas Cole