The American Revolution

5 Written Questions

1. claimed for Parliament the power to tax or make laws for the Americans "in all cases whatsoever"
2. ensured that a tie vote between candidates of the same party could not again cause the confusion of the jefferson-burr affair
3. jacksonian democracy; won election for democratic party in 1828; ignored his appointed cabinet officers and relied on the counsel of his "kitchen cabinet"; exercised power of veto more than any other president before him
4. removal of all native American tribes to an area west of the Mississippi River
5. primarily the work of Thomas Jefferson; a restatement of political ideas by then commonplace in America and showed why the former colonists felt justified in separating from Great Britain (adopted July 4, 1776)

5 Matching Questions

1. Coercive Acts
2. Gibbons v. Ogden
3. Saratoga
4. The Monroe Doctrine
5. Bill of Rights

1. a these 4 acts were the British's response to the Boston Tea Party
2. b a case involving competing steamboat companies, Marshall ruled that commerce includes navigation and that only congress has the right to regulate commerce among states
3. c to oppose the antifederalists, the states ratified 10 amendments; the first nine spelled out specific guarantees of personal freedoms, and the 10th amendment reserved to the states all powers not specifically withheld or granted to the federal government
4. d was the first and most famous American foreign policy, claiming that the United States would consider any foreign (European) challenge to the sovereignty of the American nation an unfriendly act, and that in return the U.S. would not involve itself in international concerns of European powers. The doctrine was an important expression of the growing nationalism in the U.S. in the 1820's, and it established the idea of the U.S. as the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere.
5. e American victory here convinced the French to join openly in the war against England

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. raised new hurdles in path of immigrants trying to obtain citizenship
   1. Sugar Act
   2. Alien Act
   3. Sedition Act
   4. Stamp Act
2. he was a democratic-republican who won the election of 1808
   1. Andrew Jackson
   2. Trenton
   3. James Madison
   4. Marbury v. Madison
3. Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
   1. Missouri Compromise
   2. Marbury v. Madison
   3. The Monroe Doctrine
   4. minutemen
4. demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor
   1. Coercive Acts
   2. Stamp Act
   3. Boston Tea Party
   4. Treaty of Paris
5. congress declared war upon British which resulted in increased national patriotism, united the states into one action, built confidence in U.S. military strength, and brought forth the star spangled banner
   1. Alien Act
   2. Saratoga
   3. War of 1812
   4. Trail of Tears

5 True/False Questions

1. Treaty of Paris → the final peace agreement between the new U.S. and Great Britain; recognition that U.S. is independent, establishment of America's western boundary at Mississippi River, establishment of southern boundary at latitude 31 degrees north, surrender of Florida to Spain and retainment of Canada by Britain, enablement of private British creditors to collect any debts owed by U.S. citizens, recommendation of Congress that states restore confiscated loyalist property

   True        False

2. Jeffersonians → supported Thomas Jefferson; under guidance of James Madison; opposed Hamilton's National Bank; began to organize political groups in opposition to Hamilton's program; called themselves Democratic-Republicans

   True        False

3. Sedition Act → imposed direct tax on the colonists for first time

   True        False

4. Trail of Tears → the final peace agreement between the new U.S. and Great Britain; recognition that U.S. is independent, establishment of America's western boundary at Mississippi River, establishment of southern boundary at latitude 31 degrees north, surrender of Florida to Spain and retainment of Canada by Britain, enablement of private British creditors to collect any debts owed by U.S. citizens, recommendation of Congress that states restore confiscated loyalist property

   True        False

5. The national Bank → it operated under Nicholas Biddle since 1823, a cautious man with conservative economic policy; Jackson vetoed the renewal of this and it ceased being a federal institution in 1836

   True        False