APUSH Ch. 12 Quiz

The greatest military successes of the War of 1812 came in the

• land invasions of Canada
• Chesapeake campaign fought around Washington and Baltimore
• naval battles on the Great Lakes and elsewhere
• defense of Fort Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan

Two prominent American military heroes during the War of 1812 were

• Tecumseh and Henry Clay
• Thomas Macdonough and Francis Scott Key
• Isaac Brock and John Quincy Adams
• Oliver Hazard Perry and Andrew Jackson

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

One significant domestic consequence of the War of 1812 was

• a weakening of respect for American naval forces
• an increased threat from Indians in the West
• the revival of the Federalists as a threat to the politically weakened President Madison
• a decline of nationalism and a growing of sectionalism

One significant international consequence of the War of 1812 was

• a growth of good relations between the United States and Britain
• a growth of Canadian patriotism and nationalism
• the spread of American ideas of liberty to much of western Europe
• increased American attention to the threat of attack from European nations

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

In the case of Dartmouth College v Woodward, John Marshall's Supreme Court held that

• privates colleges, and not the states, had the right to set rules and regulations for their students and faculty
• only Congress and not the states could regulate interstate commerce
• only the federal government and not the states could charter educational and other nonprofit institutions
• the states could not violate the charter of a private, nonprofit corporation like Dartmouth College once it had been granted