Question 1

What happened at the Alamo?

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A)   Hundreds of Texans died as part of their effort to secure independence.
B)   Texans won their independence.
C)   Thousands of Mexican soldiers were killed in a bloody battle against Texan volunteers.
D)   Slaveowners and abolitionists clashed over the issue of slavery in Texas.
E)   The U.S. and Mexico agreed to establish a buffer zone between the two countries.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Alamo

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Question 3

The slavery issue had been at least temporarily set aside with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.Yet how did the question of slavery simmer not far beneath the surface of American society in the Age of Jackson?

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The question of slavery simmered not far...

Question 4

Why was John Quincy Adams a great secretary of state and moral leader of American society,but such a failure in the presidency? Did the dawning age of popular mass democracy mean that leaders who could not curry favor with the public would be ineligible for the highest political offices?

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Hickoryites

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The term "Hickoryites" refers to the pol...

Question 6

Discuss the emergence of the two-party system.Was this political system inevitable for America? Why or why not? Why were multiple parties unable to endure? Which parties seem to have lasting power in the 1820s to 1840 and why?

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Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Black Hawk

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Question 8

Compare and contrast the Whigs and Democrats in regard to their beliefs,public policies,and supporters.Summarize the crucial differences between them.

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The Whigs and Democrats were two major p...

Question 9

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

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A)   San Antonio.
B)   Goliad.
C)   the Alamo.
D)   San Jacinto.
E)   the Rio Grande.

Question 10

Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from

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A)   New England.
B)   the South and Southwest.
C)   the Old Northwest.
D)   New Mexico.
E)   the Ohio Territory.

Question 11

Whose book,Democracy in America,is considered to this day to be one of the most insightful portraits of American society in the Jacksonian era?

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A)   Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
B)   Alexis de Tocqueville
C)   John C. Calhoun
D)   John Marshall
E)   Henry Clay

Question 12

How does the election of 1840 "illustrate the shortcomings of democratic politics"?

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The election of 1840 illustrates the sho...

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Sam Houston

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Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Whig party

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The Whig Party was a political party act...

Question 15

The initial attempt to bring Texas into the Union was thwarted by

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A)   many Texans' determination to maintain an independent republic.
B)   the "Texican" refusal to accept Anglo-American culture and language.
C)   northern antislavery forces.
D)   the British and French governments.
E)   Mexicans who threatened a new war if Texas became part of the United States.

Question 16

Who emerged completely victorious from the nullification crisis of 1833?

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A)   The state of South Carolina
B)   President Andrew Jackson
C)   John C. Calhoun and states' rights advocates
D)   Neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers
E)   New England manufacturing interests

Question 17

Who was "Czar Nicholas"?

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A)   Prime minister of Russia
B)   President of the Bank of the United States
C)   Author of Democracy in America
D)   Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
E)   President of Mexico

Question 18

What were the causes of the Panic of 1837? Could this downturn have been prevented,or was it evidence of the problems inherent in a free-market economy? What solutions were proposed to alleviate the crisis?

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The Panic of 1837 was caused by a combin...

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-In the 1820s and 1830s the two issues that greatly raised the political stakes were

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A)   westward expansion and Indian removal.
B)   the end of property qualifications for voting, and political conventions.
C)   the admission of Texas and Oregon to the Union.
D)   hard money and banking regulation.
E)   slavery and economic distress.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-independent treasury

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