Chapter 7 - Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism

Which of the following terms is best defined as love and pride in one’s country, and a belief that its interests should be more important than local interests?

• Nationalism 
• Sectionalism 
• Transcendentalism 
• Unitarianism

Which of the following events MOST contributed to the rise in importance of slavery in the Deep South in the first half of the 1800s?

• The Monroe Doctrine
• Court decision of Marbury v. Madison
• The invention of the cotton gin
• The Second Great Awakening

Lowell, Massachusetts was an example of what? 

• An early cotton plantation
• The site of the first colony in New England
• A battle in the War of 1812
• An early textile mill town

Which of the following was the most important cash crop in the Deep South in the nineteenth century (1800s?)

• Wheat
• Corn
• Rice
• Cotton

How did President Andrew Jackson respond when the state of South Carolina claimed the right to secede in the nullification crisis of 1833?

• He agreed with them, and encouraged them to leave the Union
• He threatened to take military action, supported by the Force Bill
• He tried to satisfy them by getting rid of the tariff
• He ignored the issue, hoping it would go away

What specific problem led to the Missouri Compromise?

• The fact hat slavery was illegal in Missouri. 
• The effort to abolish slavery in the South. 
• The desire to maintain parity between slave and free states. 
• The need to admit Maine as a slave state. 

How did President Jackson respond to the rechartering of the Bank of the United States in 1833? 

• He supported it
• He vetoed a bill that would have rechartered it
• He placed his own money in the national bank
• He asked foreign nations to invest money in it

The American System was a plan to develop the American economy by

• Importing enslaved people from Africa
• Banning the trade of cotton
• Establishing a system of canals, roads and a national bank
• Selling land in the West

The belief that one's own region is more important than the nation as a whole is known as

• Nationalism
• Nativism
• Revivalism
• Sectionalism

Andrew Jackson was a leader of the _____ Party. 

• Republican
• Whig
• American
• Democratic