APUSH PERIOD 4 Review Materials

Critics of Andrew Jackson would make all of the following claims except

• he lacked experience in governmental affairs
• he was a very common man and not fit to be president
• he gave political offices to his friends
• he gave too much power to the presidency

The concept nullification became an issue during Period 4 when

• South Carolina nullified congressional tariff bills
• Southern representatives to the Electoral College switched their votes in the 1824 election
• Virginia nullified congressional legislation concerning slavery
• South Carolina nullified congressional legislation concerning the removal of Native Americans

The American System of Henry Clay

• favored strong economic growth and a Second National Bank
• wanted to make the United States the military equivalent of Great Britain or France
• favored lowering tariffs so more goods could be purchased from abroad
• wanted to place a ceiling on the national debt

Seafaring New England opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following EXCEPT

• the Northeast Federalists sympathized with England.
• Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada.
• it could result in more agrarian states.
• their strong trade ties with France.

Even though the victory in the Battle of New Orleans provided a large boost to American morale, it proved essentially meaningless because

• General Jackson was unable to pursue and destroy the British army after his victory
• The British continued their guerrilla attacks on the Mississippi Valley region
• the peace treaty had been signed several weeks before
• the British navy retained control of the shipping lanes around New Orleans

The terms of the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 provided that

• there would be a buffer Indian state between the United States and Canada
• Britain would stop the impressment of American sailors
• the two sides would stop fighting and return to the status quo before the war
• both the United States and Britain would guarantee the independence of Canada

The Era of Good Feelings was sharply disrupted by the

• bitter political battles over the Tariff of 1816 and Henry Clay's American System
• renewal of international tensions with Britain over Canada and Monroe Doctrine
• panic of 1819 and the battle over slavery in Missouri
• war with the North African Barbary Coast states

The new nationalistic feeling right after the war of 1812 was evident in all of the following EXCEPT

• the development of a distinctive national literature
• an increased emphasis on economic independence
• the addition of significant new territory to the United States
• a new pride in the American army and nav

Besides admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, the Missouri Compromise provided that

• slavery would not be premitted anywhere in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri
• the number of proslavery and antislavery members fo the House of Representatives would be kept permanently equal
• the international slave trade would be permanently ended
• slavery would be gradually ended in the District of Columbia

As proclaimed by Monroe in his message of 1823, the Monroe Doctrine asserted that

• only the United States had a right to intervene to promote democracy in Latin America
• the British and Americans would act together to prevent further Russian expansion on the Pacific coast
• the United States would not tolerate further European intervention or colonization in the Americas
• the United States would support the Greeks in their fight for independence against Turkey