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- 1. The major significance of the MARBURY v. MADISON decision of 1803 was
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- (A) reduced the size of the Supreme Court
- (B) established a federal judiciary system
- (C) declared an act of Congress unconstitutional
- (D) enabled Madison to become Secretary of State
- (E) legalized the use of a "writ of mandamus"
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- (C) This enhanced Supreme Court power.
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- 2. The Hartford Convention of 1814 can best be described as a:
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- (A) Federalist protest meeting
- (B) rebellion against Federalist control of the government
- (C) movement to exclude New England from the Union
- (D) convention to revise the Connecticut constitution
- (E) secret meeting to raise funds for prosecuting the War of 1812
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- (A) The Hartford Convention was a secret meeting attended by delegates who
- objected to the War of 1812.
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- 3. The Battle of New Orleans was significant because:
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- (A) American troops under Andrew Jackson defeated a far larger British
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- (B) Spanish and French influence in the Southeast was ended
- (C) it was the first British victory of the War of 1812
- (D) it disrupted negotiations over the Treaty of Ghent
- (E) it was the longest naval battle ever for the United States
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- (A) Jackson defeated the British.
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- 4. The "Eaton Affair" of the 1830s is associated most closely with the:
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- (A) sinking of an American vessel
- (B) reorganization of President Jackson's Cabinet
- (C) South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
- (D) Webster-Hayne Debate
- (E) Maysville Road Veto
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- (B) The "Eaton Affair" began as a social feud centering around Peggy Eaton, the
- second wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, John H. Eaton. It escalated into a
- split in the Jackson Cabinet.
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- 5. "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." This was
- said by President Andrew Jackson after the announcement of a Supreme Court
- decision in 1832. The decision and statement were associated with:
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- (A) the establishment of the Second Bank of the United States
- (B) the end of the Second Bank of the United States
- (C) a dispute over the Tariff of 1832
- (D) the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia
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- (D) Georgia disputed Cherokee claims.
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- 6. THE DIAL, published in the 1840s, was best known as:
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- (A) an abolitionist newspaper
- (B) a southern literary journal
- (C) a transcendental journal
- (D) a book of poetry by John G. Whittier
- (E) a novel by Edgar Allen Poe
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- (C) THE DIAL was an important transcendentalist journal edited by Margaret
- Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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- 7. The "Burned Over District" of New York State refers specifically to:
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- (A) a region opposed to the Mexican War
- (B) a region where Barnburners were active
- (C) the area where radical locofocos originated
- (D) an area where many religious revivals were held
- (E) the Hudson River farmlands once owned by patroons
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- (D) The fires of religious revivals swept through this area of upper New York
- State in the early 19th century.
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- 8. Which of the following pairs of individuals denounced the Mexican War?
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- (A) John Calhoun and James Buchanan
- (B) Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
- (C) William Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau
- (D) Nicholas Trist and John Sidell
- (E) William Henry Harrison and Henry Clay
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- (C) Garrison and Thoreau denounced the Mexican War because they opposed slavery
- and the possibility of its expansion into the territories.
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