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Chapter 7 Nationalism and Sectionalism

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is sectionalism?

a)

loyalty to a region

b)

Loyalty to one's nation

c)

unity among Americans

d)

belief that the nation should be connected

2.

What is Jacksonian Democracy?

a)

hands off government

b)

practice of replacing government officials with friends and supporters

c)

make government more democratic and putting it back into the hands of the people

d)

the practice of cancelling or voiding a law

3.

What is nullification?

a)

the right to cancel or void a law

b)

cancel culture

c)

the removal of the Cherokee from their homeland

d)

the belief that states have authority over the federal government on some issues

4.

Who won the case of Worcester v. Georgia?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

the Cherokee

c)

the Seminole

d)

the Mohawks

5.

What was the Indian Removal Act?

a)

1830 law, President Jackson passed for the removal and relocation of Native Americans west

b)

removal of all Native Americans in New York

c)

another name for the Trail of Tears

d)

law passed by Jackson forcing Native Americans into slavery.

6.

Which region typically supported the idea of States' Rights?

a)

the North

b)

the South

c)

the West

d)

the Midwest

7.

What was the Spoils System

a)

replacing the President

b)

spoiling another political candidates chances at election

c)

the President overruling a Supreme Court decision

d)

replacing government positions with political supporters

8.

A devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Mass Production

c)

Interchangeable Parts

d)

American Compromise

9.

A pre–Civil War set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy by means of protective tariffs, a national bank, and such internal improvements as the development of a transportation system.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Interchangeable Parts

c)

American System

d)

Monroe Doctrine

10.

What was the southern economy based on?

a)

Industry

b)

Infrastructure Projects

c)

Governmental Initiatives

d)

Agriculture

11.

Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and ____________ was admitted as a free state.

a)

Maryland

b)

Michigan

c)

Massachusettes

d)

Maine

12.

9. During the Nullification Crisis what did South Carolina threaten to do?

a)

Elect a new Congress

b)

Burn down the White House

c)

Secede

d)

Impeach the President

13.

Standardized parts that can be used in place of one another.

a)

Mechanical Parts

b)

Interchangeable Parts

c)

American System

d)

Mass Production

14.

A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.

a)

Mass Production

b)

The Monroe Doctrine

c)

The Missouri Compromise

d)

Nationalism

15.

The production of goods in large quantities, made possible by the use of machinery and the division of labor.

a)

American System

b)

Interchangeable Parts

c)

Mass Production

d)

Nationalism

16.

The practice of winning candidates’ rewarding their supporters with government jobs.

a)

The Spoils System

b)

The Friends System

c)

Nepotism

d)

Corrupt Bargaining

17.

The marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory in 1838–1840, with thousands of the Cherokee dying on the way.

a)

The Indian Removal Act

b)

The Dawes Plan

c)

The Trail of Tears

d)

The Oklahoma Massacre

18.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Henry Clay

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

John Adams

d)

Eli Whitney

19.

What did the Supreme Court decide in the court case Gibbons v. Ogden?

a)

Only the federal govt. could free slaves

b)

Only the federal government could regulate interstate trade

c)

States did not have the power to interfere in contracts

d)

States could not tax the federal government

20.

What did John C. Calhoun say that states had the authority to do to any federal act that it considered to be unconstitutional?

a)

Reform it

b)

Secede over it

c)

Abandon it

d)

Nullify it

21.

A law, enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West.

a)

Indian Removal Act

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

National Removal

d)

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

22.

Nationalism is ___________ in your country.

a)

hatred

b)

pride

c)

loathing

d)

fear

23.

The tariff made European goods more _____________ and encouraged Americans to buy cheaper products made in America.

a)

fun

b)

desirable

c)

affordable

d)

expensive

24.

Anti-slavery leaders were afraid that allowing Missouri to enter the union as a slave state would upset what was then a _________ between free and slave states.

a)

trade

b)

friendship

c)

balance

d)

disagreements

25.

The ___________ warned Europe that the Americas were no longer open for colonization.

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Tariff of nullification

26.

This issue simply would not go away.

a)

women's right to vote

b)

high taxes

c)

slavery

d)

religious freedom

27.
Why did Northern industrialists favor protective tariffs?
a)
Tariffs raised the cost of European goods so that more people would buy American goods
b)
Labor unions demanded tariffs because they raised factory workers' wages
c)
Investors used money from tariffs to reduce production costs
d)
Higher prices meant that companies earned higher profits
28.
The ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland was significant because the Supreme Court?
a)
Declared its right to review the constitutionality of laws
b)
restricted the federal government's right to regulate interstate commerce
c)
establish the supremacy of state laws over federal laws
d)
used a broad interpretation of the Constitution to expand federal power
29.
Which American industry first used machines to do work previously done by hand?
a)
Guns
b)
Textiles
c)
Cotton farming
d)
Shoe making 
30.
How did nullification relate to tariffs in the early 1800s?
a)
Southern states wanted to nullify tariffs 
b)
Northern states wanted to nullify tariffs
c)
Northerners supported both tariffs and nullification
d)
Southerners supported both tariffs and nullification 
31.
Industrialization in the North caused?
a)
a middle class to emerge
b)
factory workers to move to suburbs
c)
skilled artisans to earn higher wages
d)
labor unions to disband 
32.
In the mid-1800s, immigrants?
a)
primarily came from Ireland and Germany 
b)
tended to be protestant 
c)
moved to new cities in the South
d)
distrusted existing Catholic Institutions
33.
The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed the?
a)
growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
b)
nation's weak foreign policy
c)
dangers of excessive nationalism
d)
trade imbalances that result from protective tariffs
34.
Why did the US government remove Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830s?
a)
White Southerners wanted the Native Americans’ valuable land 
b)
Indian territory offered more fertile land
c)
Native Americans refused to adapt to white American culture 
d)
The Supreme Court ruled that the Native Americans had violated treaty obligations
35.
Which of the following helped the North Industrialize?
a)
more workers
b)
better farmland
c)
less capital
d)
fewer rivers
36.

Why did the question of admitting Missouri to the Union divide the country?

a)

It was too big of an area.

b)

It would tip the balance of power in Congress between Free States and Slave States.

c)

There were not enough people in the Missouri Territory.

d)

Nobody liked Missouri because well… Missouri.

37.

Match the picture with the correct Vocabulary Word.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Nationalism

d)

Sectionalism

38.
What do we call the period  in America where production changed from hand made to machine manufacturing?
a)
Market Revolution
b)
Industrial Revolution
c)
Machine Revolution
d)
Cottage Revolution 
39.

What did the Worcester v. Georgia (1832) Supreme Court decision rule?

a)

A state may not revise a charter granted during colonial times.

b)

A state may not regulate the Cherokee nor invade their lands.

c)

A state may not tax any part of the federal government.

d)

A state may not regulate interstate trade.

40.

Which section of the United States was the first to industrialize?

a)

South

b)

Northeast

c)

West

41.

What did Spain give the United States in the Adams-Onis Treaty?

a)

Missouri

b)

Texas

c)

California

d)

Florida

42.

What impact did the cotton gin have on slavery?

a)

it resulted in a decrease in the number of slaves

b)

it had little to no effect on slavery

c)

it made slave life easier

d)

it led to the exponential growth of slavery