Module 9 Era of Good Feelings

What is the best reason for U.S. citizens to be educated?

• It's a requirement

• Educated people will be better citizens

• It's essential to have educated leaders

• Democracy needs educated and informed people to survive

The Hudson River School emphasized...

• landscapes

• rivers

• battle scenes

• portraits

Early American art emphasized...

• landscapes

• rivers

• battle scenes

• portraits

James Fenimore Cooper wrote what type of novels?

• historical fiction

• satire

• science fiction

• biographies

If a presidential candidate doesn't get a majority of electoral votes, ____ decides who becomes president.

• the House of Representative

• the Senate

• the Supreme Court

• the public votes again

According to the Missouri Compromise, the remaining land of the Louisiana Purchase would...

• be slave territories

• be free territories

• be sold to settlers in the West

• be open territory

With the Missouri Compromise, Maine would enter as...

• a free state

• a slave state

• a state with freedom and slavery

• an abolitionist state

Sectionalism is...

• loyalty to an entire nation

• loyalty to the United States

• loyalty to a specific region

• loyalty to one political party

The Erie Canal connected the great lakes to the...

• Hudson River

• Mississippi River

• Ohio River

• Cumberland River

As the first federal road to be built in America, how was the money raised to pay for it?

• protective tariffs

• income tax

• donations

• Congressmen loaned the money