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What was the first state to guarantee all white males the vote? |
| | A) | Tennessee |
| | B) | Rhode Island |
| | C) | Missouri |
| | D) | Ohio |
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In which state did the Dorr Rebellion take place? |
| | A) | Connecticut |
| | B) | Missouri |
| | C) | Rhode Island |
| | D) | Kentucky |
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Which of the following led the dissident political faction known as the "Bucktails," or "Albany Regency"? |
| | A) | De Witt Clinton |
| | B) | Henry Clay |
| | C) | John C. Calhoun |
| | D) | Martin Van Buren |
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Which of the following was not part of Andrew Jackson's view of democracy? |
| | A) | The eastern aristocrats constrained opportunities for white men. |
| | B) | No region or class should be favored over another. |
| | C) | No race or ethnicity should be favored over another. |
| | D) | Entrenched officeholders should be removed from government. |
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How did Jackson and his followers change the electoral process? |
| | A) | They instituted a system of national primaries. |
| | B) | They held the first major party convention. |
| | C) | They called for the direct election of senators. |
| | D) | They organized the first presidential debate. |
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Which of the following is not true of Calhoun's theory of nullification? |
| | A) | It relied on elements of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. |
| | B) | It argued that Congress, not the Court, was the final arbiter of federal constitutionality. |
| | C) | It became widely popular in South Carolina due to the ‘tariff of abominations.' |
| | D) | It did little to improve Calhoun's standing in the Jackson administration. |
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What was the name of the domestic scandal that splintered Jackson's cabinet and helped Van Buren become Jackson's heir apparent? |
| | A) | The Kitchen Cabinet |
| | B) | The Calhoun Affair |
| | C) | The Eaton Affair |
| | D) | The Kendall Affair |
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What issue initially prompted the famous debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne? |
| | A) | The expansion of slavery into the west |
| | B) | The Bank of the United States |
| | C) | The nullification crisis of 1832 |
| | D) | The sale of western lands |
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What state did the nullification crisis center around? |
| | A) | Virginia |
| | B) | South Carolina |
| | C) | Tennessee |
| | D) | Mississippi |
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In what state did the Black Hawk War take place? |
| | A) | Kentucky |
| | B) | Tennessee |
| | C) | Minnesota |
| | D) | Illinois |
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Which of the following was not one of the "Five Civilized Tribes"? |
| | A) | Shoshone |
| | B) | Choctaw |
| | C) | Seminole |
| | D) | Chickasaw |
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How did President Jackson respond to the Marshall Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia? |
| | A) | He applauded it. |
| | B) | He reluctantly enforced it. |
| | C) | He replaced John Marshall with Roger B. Taney. |
| | D) | He ignored it. |
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Where did the "Trail of Tears" come to an end? |
| | A) | Arizona |
| | B) | New Mexico |
| | C) | Oklahoma |
| | D) | Nebraska |
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Which of the following tribes managed, after much blood and conflict, to resist the white pressures to relocate west? |
| | A) | Cherokee |
| | B) | Seminole |
| | C) | Creek |
| | D) | Choctaw |
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Which of the following best describes Andrew Jackson's views on the Bank of the United States? |
| | A) | He supported the hard-money position. |
| | B) | He supported the soft-money position. |
| | C) | He supported the rechartering of the Bank |
| | D) | He was not interested in the Bank question. |
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Which of the following was not a measure taken by Nicholas Biddle to save the Bank of the United States? |
| | A) | He called in loans to precipitate a short recession. |
| | B) | He named Daniel Webster director of the bank's Boston branch. |
| | C) | He tried to renew the Bank's charter four years early. |
| | D) | He removed the federal government's deposits from the bank. |
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How did the Taney Court find in the case of Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge? |
| | A) | The toll-free bridge could not be chartered, due to breach of contract. |
| | B) | The Court had no jurisdiction over the state law of Massachusetts. |
| | C) | The toll-free bridge could be built, provided compensation was made to the owners of the original charter. |
| | D) | The toll-free bridge could be built, since promoting the general happiness took precedence over rights of contract and property. |
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Which of the following is not true of the Whig Party? |
| | A) | Irish and German Catholics tended to vote Whig. |
| | B) | Whigs tended to be cautious about western expansion. |
| | C) | Whigs generally favored modernizing, industrial institutions. |
| | D) | Whigs were strongest among the merchants and manufacturers of the Northeast. |
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Which of the following is not true of the Democratic Party? |
| | A) | Democrats believed government should be limited, except when expanding opportunities for white men. |
| | B) | Democrats drew their strength from southern planters and agrarian-minded westerners. |
| | C) | Democrats tended to be wealthier than Whigs. |
| | D) | Democrats were more likely to support territorial expansion. |
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Which of the following was not a member of the "Great Triumvirate"? |
| | A) | Henry Clay |
| | B) | Stephen Douglas |
| | C) | John C. Calhoun |
| | D) | Daniel Webster |
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What did Jackson's 1836 "specie circular" mandate? |
| | A) | The value of silver to gold would be set at 16:1. |
| | B) | Public lands must be bought with gold, silver, or backed currency. |
| | C) | Federal surpluses would be repaid to the states. |
| | D) | The federal government would honor state bank notes as legal tender. |
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What did Martin Van Buren intend to replace the Bank of the United States with? |
| | A) | A "Federal Reserve" system |
| | B) | An "independent treasury" system |
| | C) | Powerful state banks |
| | D) | A new, less-powerful national bank |
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Who won the "Log Cabin Campaign" of 1840? |
| | A) | Martin Van Buren |
| | B) | John Tyler |
| | C) | James K. Polk |
| | D) | William Henry Harrison |
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What was the "Aroostook War" fought over? |
| | A) | Attempts to relocate the Aroostook people |
| | B) | The question of slavery in the region |
| | C) | The Canada-Maine border |
| | D) | Timber rights in the Northeast |
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With what nation was the Webster-Ashburton treaty signed? |
| | A) | Canada |
| | B) | France |
| | C) | England |
| | D) | Spain |
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