APUSH Units 4-5 Review Quiz

The Marbury v. Madison decision

• gave powers to the president that the Republicans of Thomas Jefferson claimed he didn't have.

• gave broad judicial power to the state courts.

• declared that the Alien and Sedition Acts were constitutional.

• established the principle of judicial review.

Answer explanation

The decision stated that the Supreme Court had the right to decide on the constitutionality of federal rulings and law.

As a result of the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800,

• more assistance was given to the commercial sector.

• American foreign policy became more pro-British.

• the federal debt rose dramatically.

• federal excise taxes were eliminated.

Answer explanation

All of the remaining answers would have been true if a Federalist had been elected president. Jefferson favored lessening the power of the federal government, and eliminating federal excise taxes was one way in which he did so.

All of the following are reasons why America entered the War of 1812 except

• the impressment of American naval crews.

• the existence of a strong American navy ready to demonstrate its capabilities.

• the relationship between the British and Native American tribes in the western territories of North America.

• the desire of American leaders to acquire additional western territories.

Answer explanation

The United States had an army of 6,000 men and 17 ships when the war began. All the other choices are reasons why Americans supported the War of 1812.

The Hartford Convention demonstrated that

• the Federalist party had remained a dominant party in American political life.

• the War of 1812 brought political union to the United States.

• the concept of nullification was not exclusively a Southern one.

• the Treaty of Ghent was a controversial treaty.

Answer explanation

Kentucky and Virginia spoke of nullification after the Sedition Act. New England Federalists saw the War of 1812 as a disaster and at the Hartford Convention also spoke of nullification.

The American System of Henry Clay

• favored strong economic growth and a Second National Bank.

• wanted to make the United States the military equivalent of Great Britain or France.

• favored lowering tariffs so that more goods could be purchased from abroad.

• advocated the elimination of slavery.

Answer explanation

The American System favored American economic growth, a National Bank, and increased tariffs to protect American businesses and finance new transportation systems within the United States.

President Monroe claimed that westward relocation of Native Americans would be to the advantage of the Native Americans because

• they would not be bothered west of the Mississippi.

• the American military would protect them during the journey.

• they would be well compensated for the tribal lands that they were leaving.

• settlers west of the Mississippi were receptive to Native American settlement there.

Answer explanation

Monroe stated that Native Americans could not avoid being continually harassed if they lived east of the Mississippi, but that this would not happen after they moved.

The concept of nullification became an issue during this period when

• Georgia opposed congressional legislation concerning slavery.

• South Carolina nullified congressional legislation concerning the removal of Native Americans.

• South Carolina nullified congressional tariff bills.

• Southern representatives to the Electoral College switched their votes in the 1824 election.

Answer explanation

Because the tariff bills increased the prices of cloth and iron, the South Carolina legislature first nullified the Tariff of 1828.

Critics of Andrew Jackson would make all of the following claims except that

• he was a very common man and not fit to be president.

• he gave too much power to the presidency.

• he lacked experience in government affairs.

• he relied too much on his "Kitchen Cabinet".

Answer explanation

All of the other criticisms were off made against Jackson. However, he did have an impressive background: before becoming president, he served as a congressman and a senator from Tennessee and as the territorial governor of Florida.

The following are true about the textile mills of New England in the early nineteenth century except

• a large percentage of their workforce was made up of women.

• they depended on water for power.

• they used a system called the putting-out system.

• there was little labor unrest in the mills until the 1830s and 1840s.

Answer explanation

It was the putting-out system that these mills replaced.

Horace Mann is associated with

• abolitionism.

• the temperance movement.

• prison reform.

• educational reform.

Answer explanation

Horace Mann wrote and spoke about the need to improve schools and to improve teacher training methods.