End-of-the-School-Year U.S. History Test Review

In 1828, Congress passed a tariff, a tax on imported goods, so foreign competition could be reduced against American products. Vice President John C. Calhoun declared the tariff unconstitutional, and he believed states didn't have to follow any federal laws that were not in their best interest. This practice is known as __________________.

• spoils system

• nullification

• bureaucracy

• none of these answers are correct

President Andrew Jackson oversaw the ___________________, which forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Native Americans and had a devastating effect on the Native population.

• Pueblo Revolt

• Battle of New Orleans

• Indian Removal Act

• Revolutionary War

During the 1820s, the Second Party system formed in the United States, pitting the Whigs against ___________________.

• Jacksonian Democrats

• Democrats

• Federalists

• Republicans

Spain wanted to convert Native Americans to ____________________________.

• Christianity

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Jewish

The tariff of 1828 was so unpopular in the South that it generated threats of secession and the theory of _______________________________.

• war

• nullification

• economic boycotts

• None of these answers are correct.

By 1672, there were about 5,000 French settlers in North America. French settlements were initially made up of ____________________________________________.

• warriors, traders, and fishermen

• traders, fishermen, and sailors

• fur traders, merchants, and missionaries

• None of these answers are correct

Which nations established few permanent settlements in the New World? Check all the apply.

• French

• English

• Spain

• Dutch

• United States of America

What did the French and Dutch have in common?

• Both fought heavily against Native Americans

• Both had marriages with Native Americans to expand their fur trading operations.

• Both wanted to find a new trade route to Asia

• None of these answers are correct.

The Dutch's original intent colonization was to find a path to Asia through North America, but the Dutch discovered that the ___________________ was extremely profitable.

• fur trade

• cotton production

• rice production

• whaling

When Native Americans began to die from diseases like smallpox, the Spanish and Portuguese began

• work with the French on the fur trade.

• capture and send enslaved Africans to the Americas as a labor force.

• attempt to destroy England and control North and South Americas.

• None of these answers are correct.