WorksheetsAmer Chp 3 The Growth of a Young Nation
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In the election of 1800, which candidate tied with Jefferson in the Electoral College?
John Adams
Henry Clay
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Why did President Jefferson send Lewis and Clark west?
To negotiate the purchase of the Louisiana territory.
To mine for gold in California.
To explore newly acquired U.S territory.
To settle new areas as non-slave states.
What did Marbury v. Madison establish?
Presidential authority over the states.
Limited authority of outgoing presidents.
Judicial Review.
Maximum number of judges on the Supreme Court.
What is Judicial Review?
State's authority to rule a law constitutional or not.
Executive Branch's authority to rule a law constitutional.
Legislative Branch's authority to rule a law constitutional.
Supreme Courts authority to rule a law unconstitutional.
Which candidate did John Quincy Adams defeat in the controversial election of 1824?
Henry Clay.
James Monroe.
Daniel Webster.
Andrew Jackson.
Which idea is promoted by the concept of nullification?
Nationalism.
State's rights.
Judicial Review.
Territorial expansion.
Which group was forcibly relocated by means of the "Trail of Tears"?
Mexicans.
Shosone.
African slaves.
Cherokee.
Which of the following men was most in favor of seizing land from Mexico?
James K. Polk.
Thomas Jefferson.
John C. Calhoun.
Abraham Lincoln
Which area did the Monroe Doctrine aim to free from European influence?
Oregon territory.
North America.
Western Hemisphere.
Texas.
For which action is Nat Turner famous?
Leading a violent slave revolt.
Publishing an antislavery newspaper.
Fighting in the American Revolution.
Promoting a nonviolent end to slavery.
What did the abolition movement promote?
Instituting slavery in new U.S territories
Prohibiting the drinking of alcohol.
Ending the institution of slavery.
Removing Native Americans from the eastern states.
What did Mexico offer Americans in order to get them to move to Texas?
Religious Freedom.
Cheap land.
Low taxes.
An extension of slavery.
The temperance movements goal was to
allow women the right to vote.
eliminate alcohol from American society.
allow slaves the right to vote.
make alcohol illegal for Native Americans.
The Treaty to end the war of 1812 was
Treaty of Paris 1763.
Treaty of Ghent.
Treaty of Paris 1783.
Treaty of Versailles.
Which of the following was not part of the American System?
Internal improvements.
National Bank.
Citizenship for all free blacks.
Protective Tariff.
Where did the Mormons finally settle in the U.S?
Mexico.
Texas.
Florida.
Utah.
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
Cyrus McCormick.
James Monroe.
Eli Whitney.
Thomas Edison.
Who tried to unite all Native American tribes together in order to protect their land.
Tenskawata.
Crazy Horse.
Gernonimo.
Tecumseh.
Why was the U.S willing to pay 10 million for the Gadsden Territory?
To build a canal between Mexico and the U.S.
To build a railroad around the Rocky Mountains.
Gold had secretly been discovered there.
The U.S. felt guilty about the Mexican American war.
Who was James Monroe taling to when he issued the Monroe Doctrine?
Latin America.
Australia.
New Zeland.
Europe.
