PERIOD 4 PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS – ANSWER KEY
Senator Obadian German of New York, speech in the Senate, June 1812
1. (A) – He opposed going to war because he did not believe the country was prepared for one
2. (D) – Merchants from New England
3. (A) – the impressment of US sailors
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801
4. (C) - Laws
5. (B) – Alexander Hamilton
6. (D) – George Washington
Tecumseh, Letter to Gov. Wm. Henry Harrison, August 1810
7. (D) – Forming a confederacy among all American Indians
8. (D) – no individual or single tribe had the right to sell the land
Clements Burleigh, Shamrock Society of NY, 1817
1. (B) – “good pay for labor”
2. (C) – states west of the Allegheny Mtns.
3. (A) – American System
James Monroe, The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
4. (D) – John Quincy Adams
5. (A) – Britain
6. (A) – Nationalism
Chart: Vote in the US House of Representatives…., 1824
7. (B) – undeveloped regions
8. (A) – American System
John C. Calhoun, statement adopted by a convention in SC, 1832
1. (D) – An increase in the tariff passed by Congress
2. (C) – States
3. (A) – Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
Pres. Andrew Jackson, Message vetoing the Bank, 8132
4. (A) – Common individuals
5. (D) – Westerners
6. (B) – a financial panic
Martin van Buren, “Against Government Aid for Business Losses,” 1837
7. (C) – farmers and planters
8. (D) – Henry Clay
Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Speech to the Penn. Legislature, 1835
1. (A) – Massachusetts
2. (D) – democratic government
3. (B) – it will result in increased taxes
Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government,” 1849
4. (B) – he opposed war in all cases
5. (D) go to jail for his beliefs
6. (B) – Transcendentalists
Sojourner Truth, speech to a Women’s Convention in Ohio, 1851
7. (C) – the teachings of religion
8. (B) – the antislavery movement