STAAR #2

What was one effect of these events on the 1828 presidential election?

• Votes were cast by secret ballot.

• Property qualifications for voting were strengthened.
  

• Poll taxes were reduced.
  

• Voter participation increased.

What was a major reason for the federal government’s involvement in the relocations depicted on this map?

• To persuade American Indians to become farmers
  

• To gain access to important rivers
  

• To punish American Indians who were allies of the British

• To acquire valuable agricultural land and natural resources

Conflicting interpretations of this amendment played a major role in the

• Bank War
  

• Nullification Crisis

  
  

• Corrupt Bargain

• XYZ Affair
  

These speakers are debating an issue that eventually became known as the

• Monroe Doctrine
  

• Nullification Crisis

  
  

• Missouri Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise
  

Which of the following correctly completes this graphic organizer?

• President Jackson annexes land west of the Mississippi River.

• 
  President Jackson ignores a Supreme Court ruling.

  
  

• President Jackson introduces a bill to Congress.
  

• President Jackson vetoes an act passed by Congress.
  

What was the primary question surrounding the 1832 Nullification Crisis?

• 
  Can the federal government regulate interstate commerce?

• Can a state regulate a federal agency?
  

• Can a state overturn a federal law?

• Can the federal government levy taxes on states?
  

Which of the following best completes the diagram above?

• Slaveholding state
  

• 
  Bordered by the Pacific
  

• Formerly part of Mexico

• Dependent on heavy industry
  

During the 1840s the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?

• 
  The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  

• Manifest Destiny

• The American System
  

• States’ Rights
  

Which of these was a goal shared by many advocates of Manifest Destiny?

• Abolishing slavery throughout the United States
  

• Occupying all of North America

  
  

• Withdrawing from foreign affairs

• Returning to an agrarian economy
  

Which event on the time line contributed most directly to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4