Quiz 5.02

After the War of 1812, the United States experienced a surge of:

• Industrialization

• Nationalism

• Isolationism

• Sectionalism

The period during James Monroe's presidency, characterized by a sense of unity and nationalism, was known as the:

• Era of Good Feelings

• Age of Enlightenment

• Era of Manifest Destiny

• Jacksonian Era

The Monroe Doctrine primarily focused on asserting American influence in the:

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• African Continent

• Asian Continent

Sectionalism is best defined as:

• Prioritizing national interests over regional concerns

• The tendency to prioritize the interests of one's region over those of the entire country

• Embracing diversity within a nation

• A form of international cooperation

Who proposed the American System to unify the nation's economic interests?

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Henry Clay

One component of the American System was the establishment of:

• Low tariffs

• Free trade agreements

• Protective tariffs

• International alliances

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 aimed to:

• End slavery in the United States

• Maintain a balance of free and slave states

• Expand slavery into new territories

• Establish Missouri as the sole free state

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) established that:

• Only state governments could regulate interstate commerce

• Interstate commerce could be regulated by both state and federal governments

• Only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce

• Interstate commerce was not subject to regulation

The Rush-Bagot Treaty aimed to reduce the number of:

• Colonies in the Western Hemisphere

• Ships in the Great Lakes

• Slaves in the United States

• European immigrants to America

The Monroe Doctrine asserted that the Western Hemisphere was closed to:

• Trade with Asia

• European colonization

• African exploration

• Latin American independence movements