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WorksheetsA Changing Nation
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which president wanted the government to be less aristocratic (upper class)?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
James Madison
What is the name of Thomas Jefferson’s home?
Monticello
Winchester
Biltmore
Mount Jefferson
Which fact is not true about Thomas Jefferson?
He was very well educated
He was an architect
He was the 4th president
He was a secretary of state
What is the belief that the government should not interfere in the economy?
Scarcity
Incentives
Supply and demand
Laissez Fair
Judicial Review was established under which major Supreme Court case?
Brown v. Board
Roe v. Wade
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is the authority of the Supreme Court to strike down unconstitutional laws?
Judicial Review
Privy coucil
Judicature
Division of powers
Americans on the western frontier, beyond the Appalachian Mountains relied on using which river to ship their crops to the port at New Orleans?
Mississippi
Yazoo
Chattahoochie
Missouri
America bought the Louisiana Purchase from which country for a bargain at $15 million?
Great Britain
France
Russia
Spain
Who joined Lewis and Clark on their journey of the Louisiana Territory and served as an interpreter?
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Sacagawea
Zebulon Pike
Which country was not a Barbary State in northern Africa, raiding and attacking American and European merchant ships?
Tunisia
Algiers
Libya
Morocco
What is money paid by one country to another in return for protection?
Bribe
Monopoly
Tribute
Incentive
What is the action of seizing sailors and making them serve in the navy of another country?
Impressment
Guillotine
Tariffs
Piracy
What wrote the Star Spangled Banner while watching a bombardment of Baltimore during the War of 1812?
Francis Scott Key
Meriwether Lewis
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
In 1808 which D-R candidate defeated Charles Pinckney in the presidential election, becoming the 4thpresident?
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
James Madison
Martin Van Buren
What is the action of shutting a port or road to prevent people or supplies from coming into an area or leaving it?
Bloackade
Stoppage
Veto
Bolting
After the Battle of Fallen Timbers tens of thousands of Americans began moving in which direction?
North
South
East
West
Which War of 1812 ship earned the nickname “Old Ironsides” because British artillery bounced off the ship’s thick wooden hull?
USS Jefferson
USS Constitution
USS George H. W. Bush
USS Gueroère
Which building in Washington D.C. did the British not set fire to during the War of 1812?
The Capital Building
The White House
The Treasury Building
The Harry S. Truman building
The War of 1812 began all because of British what?
Taxes
Monopolies
Impressment
Embargoes
Who explored the southern part of the new Louisiana Territory between 1806 and 1807 and was arrested by Spanish troops?
Sacagawea
Thomas Jefferson
Zebulon Pike
Charles Pinckney
Who became the 5th president of the United States after the War of 1812 ended?
James Monroe
James Madison
John Q. Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Which fact is not true about President James Monroe?
Born in VA
Governor of the LA Territory
A founder of the D-R Party
Negotiated the LA Purchase
The “Era of Good Feelings” was used to describe the two presidential terms of which president?
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Q. Adams
In 1816 Congress established what to fix the economy?
2nd Bank of the U.S.
A trade embargo
The Dept. of the Interior
Higher Taxes
What is the term for selling goods in another country below market prices?
Dumping
Monopoly
Plunking
Veto
Which major Supreme Court case ruled that states had no power to interfere with federal institutions?
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v. Madison
What is the term for the economic system in which privately owned businesses compete in a free market?
Nullification
Suffrage
Capitalism
Democratic
Who became the 6th president of the United States of America?
James Monroe
James Madison
John Q. Adams
Andrew Jackson
Which fact is not true about the 7th president, Andrew Jackson?
Was a general in the War of 1812
He grew up in poverty
He became a lawyer
He was married to Rose
The runoff election of 1824 was between which two men?
Q. Adams & Jackson
Jackson and Clay
Crawford and Jackson
Q. Adams and Clay
What is the right to vote?
Nullification
Suffrage
Nominating Convention
Capitalism
Over 20 thousand Americans showed up for a reception at the White House after which president was inaugurated?
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
Martin Van Buren
By 1836 the anti-Jackson supporters formed a new party, which was named what?
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Whig Party
Independent Party
In 1831 political parties began holding large meetings of party delegates to choose candidates for office. These meetings are referred to as what?
Nominating Conventions
Capitalism
Socialism
Nullification
What is the practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins an election?
Spoils System
Capitalism
Nullification
Democratic
Many Native Americans from which tribe had adopted white customs, could speak and read English, and converted to Christianity?
Choctaw
Creek
Chickasaw
Cherokee
Policies to move Natives from their land began by which American President?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
John Q. Adams
What gave President Andrew Jackson the authority to offer Natives lands west of the MS River in exchange for their lands in the East?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Worcester v. Georgia
Presidential Act of 1810
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Second Bank of the United States’ biggest enemy was who?
Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Nicholas Biddle
John C. Calhoun
What is an action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects?
Suffrage
Capitalism
Nullification
Democracy
