Due in 40 minutesQuestion 12 ptsIn 1832 a South Carolina state convention: declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state. ordered the state militia to arrest customs officials

Question 112 pts

According to a letter by Margaret Bayard Smith, Andrew Jacksons first inauguration was:

	a thoroughly raucous affair, with the Democratic Party encouraging Jacksons supporters to stage a boisterous parade before he took the oath and then to mob the White House reception
	marred by his supporters mobbing the White House during a post-inaugural reception.

	quiet and dignified; reports of raucous behavior by his supporters were unfounded.
	the first such ceremony in history to feature military parades, honoring Jacksons victory in the Battle of New Orleans.

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Question 122 pts

Cities such as Buffalo, Chicago, and Detroit grew rapidly in the 1830s because:

	they facilitated the transfer of goods between the East and the West.
	their mayors and other city officials used public funds to build new ports and harbors to increase trade.

	they were located where goods had to be transferred from one mode of transportation to another.
	their location facilitated the use of water power in factories.

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Question 132 pts

In 1830 Jackson vetoed a bill to extend the National Road to Lexington, Kentucky, giving as his reason:

	his preference that a company headed by his own supporters build the road.
	that it was an infringement on the power of the states.

	his fear that the road would facilitate the flight of fugitive slaves.
	Kentuckians failure to support him in the 1828 election.

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Question 142 pts

Jacksons practice of appointing loyal members of his party to public offices became known as:

	the caucus system.
	the spoils system.

	patronage.
	the rotation system.

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Question 152 pts

From 1820 to 1840 the most rapidly growing American cities were:

	those west of the Mississippi River.
	the new industrial towns that sprang up along the fall line.

	the cotton-trading centers of the South.
	those west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Question 162 pts

All of the following men were candidates for the presidency in 1824 except:

	John Quincy Adams
	William H. Crawford.

	James Monroe.
	Henry Clay.

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Question 172 pts

In Cincinnati, which became an important meatpacking center in the 1830s and 1840s, the introduction of factory methods in the packing industry meant that:

	large numbers of farm families throughout southern Ohio and northern Kentucky were enlisted in an outwork system of hog butchers and meat picklers.
	a few simple mechanical devices were used along an assembly line of meat packers who each had a specific task.

	sophisticated meat-processing machinery was imported from Great Britain and operated by experienced factory workers.
	rural workers were retrained in the new technical skills they would need as factory workers.

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Question 182 pts

In an anonymous tract, The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, John C. Calhoun:

	argued that only a referendum by the people could decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional.
	argued that the federal government could never interfere with southern slavery

	claimed that any dissident state had the option of seceding from the Union if three-fourths of the other states ratified an amendment giving Congress the power to enforce a law that the state considered unconstitutional.
	refuted the arguments of Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.

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Question 192 pts

Which of the following can most accurately be described as significant characteristics of the industrial and market revolution that occurred in the American economy during the first half of the nineteenth century?

	By 1860 the United States became the worlds fifth-ranking manufacturing nation, behind only Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
	Business leaders of the Northeast drove mechanization forward and incorporated the trans-Appalachian West into the industrial economy.

	Productivity declined as standards of industrial craftsmanship were lost.
	All of the above.

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Question 202 pts

In their sweep to victory in 1828, Jackson and Calhoun captured states in all of the following regions except:

	New England.
	the Upper South.

	the Old Northwest.
	the mid-Atlantic region.