M9 A New National Identity

What prompted President Monroe and Secretary of State Adams to issue the Monroe Doctrine?

• they feared that newly independent countries in Latin America would ask European countries for military help

• they feared that European countries would try to convince the US to fight in European wars

• they feared that newly independent countries in Latin America would not adopt democratic governments

• they feared that European countries would try to establish new colonies in the Western Hemisphere

"Land prices should be kept low to help farmers settle the West." - Nationalism or Sectionalism?

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

What was an effect of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden?

• weakening of the legislative branch

• reinforcement of the doctrine of states' rights

• reinforcement of the power of the federal government

• strengthening of the executive and judicial branches

In the Missouri Compromise, which state entered the Union as a free state, in order to maintain the balance between free and slave states?

• Arkansas

• Maine

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Minnesota

What did Thomas Jefferson call for Americans to do out of admiration for ancient Greece and Rome?

• learn to speak and write Greek

• model buildings after Greek and Roman styles

• establish schools modeled after Roman schools

• adopt laws following the example of Greek and Roman laws

Who wrote satires, including "Rip Van Winkle"?

• John James Audubon

• George Caleb Bingham

• Thomas Cole

• James Fenimore Cooper

• Washington Irving

Who painted birds and mammals, such as in The Birds of America?

• Thomas Cole

• James Fenimore Cooper

• John James Audubon

• Noah Webster

• Washington Irving

Who painted scenes of traders, settlers, and Native Americans on the American frontier?

• Thomas Cole

• Catharine Maria Sedgwick

• George Caleb Bingham

• James Fenimore Cooper

• John James Audubon

Who wrote a dictionary of American English?

• John James Audubon

• Noah Webster

• George Caleb Bingham

• James Fenimore Cooper

• Washington Irving

What is the most famous U.S. canal built during the Era of Good Feelings?

• Suez Canal
• Panama Canal
• Thames River
• Erie Canal