US History 2-14

Many New England citizens opposed United

States participation in the War of 1812 because

they

• feared a Russian invasion in the Northwest

• worried that France might try to regain

  Canada

• resented disruption of their trade with

  England

• resisted the extension of slavery into western

  territories

During the early 1800s, advances in democratic

government included

• eliminating property ownership as a voting

  requirement

• ending the role of the electoral college

• increasing education and religious requirements

  for voting

• giving states the right to secede from the

  Union

A principal reason for calling the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was to

• strengthen the central government

• settle land disputes with Canada

• increase the power of the states

• weaken the system of checks and balances

Thomas Jefferson used a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution when he

• negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803

• asked Congress to increase the size of the United States Navy

• ran for a second term as president

• opposed the reelection of John Adams in 1800

In the 1840s, westward expansion was justifi ed by a belief in

• laissez-faire

• Manifest Destiny

• popular sovereignty

• cultural pluralism

The main reason Thomas Paine wrote Common

Sense was to

• convince states to ratify the new Constitution

• bring an end to the Revolutionary War

• gain support for declaring independence from

  Great Britain

• urge adoption of the Albany Plan of Union

The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was

important to the development of the nation

because it

• linked the industrial centers of the North and

  the South

• allowed the United States Navy to defend the

  Great Lakes

• forced the Spanish to sell Florida to the

  United States

• increased trade between the East Coast and

  the Midwest

What was a result of the Great Compromise

during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• creating a two-house legislature

• banning slavery in Southern states

• requiring that the president have a cabinet

• giving the Supreme Court the power to hear

  cases involving states

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation

was the inability of the central government to

• establish a postal system

• collect adequate taxes from the states

• control western lands

• admit new states to the Union

In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court

strengthened the federal government’s role in

the national economy by

• outlawing the triangular trade

• banning states from issuing money

• upholding the power of Congress to regulate

  interstate commerce

• limiting the growth of corporations