TEST #3 - Compromise in American Politics 1776-1861 Concepts

The Wilmot Proviso was ...
1. an amendment to the Constitution
2. an amendment to an appropriation bill
3. a new compromise about slavery extension in Texas
4. a theory trying to justify slavery
The Wilmot Provison moved ...
1. to allow slavery in the territory annexed by the U.S after the Mexican war (1846-48)
2. to annex Oregon Territory
3. to exclude Mormons from California
4. to exclude slavery from the territory annexed by the U.S after the Mexican war (1846-48)
The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834. It was ...
1. after the battle of Fort Sumter
2. after Calhoun's Nullification theory
3. after the ratification of the Constitution
4. after the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834 as a reaction against …
1. John Caldwell Calhoun's Nullification theory
2. Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party
3. George Washington's Farewell Address
4. “King Andrew” Jackson's executive tyranny
Henry Clay had always lusted for the presidency. In 1844, he lost the election when he misgauged the popularity of expansionism and …
1. opposed the annexation of Texas.
2. asked Polk to run with him
3. coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" with O'Sullivan
4. opposed the Wilmot Proviso
The Whig Party was essentially the creation of …
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. Henry Clay
4. Andrew Jackson
Who had framed the Land Ordinance and then the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that allowed every new state to enter the Union on an equal footing with the original thirteen?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. George Washington
4. Thomas Jefferson
What caused the Whig coalition to disappear?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun's nullification theory
2. Harrison's election
3. sectionalism (conscience Whigs vs. cotton Whigs)
4. constitutional unionism
The Compromise of 1850 was fashioned by …
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Henry Clay
3. James Knox Polk
4. David Crockett
What is the underlying concept in the following quotation? "… the country known as the great West -- the Valley of the Mississippi, … -- from the Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains. There, sir, is the hope of this nation -- the resting place of the power that is not only to control, but to save, the Union." (In the Senate, March 13 and 14, 1850.)
1. unionism
2. popular sovereignty
3. agrarianism
4. abolitionsim
Who defended the theory of states' rights on the grounds that it was delegates from the original 13 states, not of "the people", who had framed the Constitution?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. George Washington
4. Thomas Jefferson
Who became famous for creating the spoils system?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Andrew Jackson
3. George Washington
4. Thomas Jefferson
Who bluntly put an end to nullification ideas in South Carolina?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. George Washington
4. Andrew Jackson
Who violently opposed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States?
1. John Caldwell Calhoun
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. George Washington
4. Andrew Jackson
What are the underlying concepts in the following quotation? "I regret exceedingly that in a speech that is so eminently liberal, national, and patriotic, on all the points which unfortunately disturb and distract the country, he should have deemed it necessary to have marred its harmony, and broken its force, by introducing taunts and criminations of a mere partisan character." (In the Senate, March 13 and 14, 1850.)
1. unionism and sectionalism
2. popular sovereignty and sectionalism
3. agrarianism and unionism
4. abolitionism and popular sovereignty
What new form of politics "deplored compromise as an unacceptable sacrifice of moral principles" after the 1830s?
1. the politics of expansionism
2. the politics of conscience
3. the spoils system
4. the nullification theory
What are these—separation of powers; a system of checks and balances; bicameralism—the underlying principles of?
1. the Articles of Confederation
2. Manifest Destiny
3. the Whig Party belief system
4. the Constitution
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was not given power to …
1. regulate interstate and foreign commerce
2. pass laws
3. requisition taxes
4. requisition men into the armed forces
What is the underlying concept in the following quotation? "Have the people of the territories of the United States no rights? I had supposed that the principle was universally conceded in this country, that all men have certain inherent and inalienable rights; and I have yet to learn upon what grounds the people of the Territories are to be excluded from the benefit of this principle." (In the Senate, March 13 and 14, 1850.)
1. unionism
2. popular sovereignty
3. agrarianism
4. abolitionism
The underlying concept in the phrase "unalterable attachment to the Constitution and the Union." is …
1. sectionalism
2. agrarianism
3. capitalism
4. constitutional unionism