What did southerners regard as the cornerstone of a national compact on slavery?
Clay's American system
the Wilmot Proviso
the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution
bicameralism
Clay's American system was a program to stimulate national economic development. Part of this system included
linking farmers to urban and overseas markets
export taxations
bicameralism
nullification
Roughly put, the nullification theory said that ...
a State has the right to declare an act of Congress null and void within the limits of the States
a State has the right to declare an act of Congress null and void within the limits of the State
a State has no right to declare that an act of Congress is null and void within the limits of the State
a State has the right to declare an act of Congress null but not void within the limits of the State
"antebellum" refers to ...
the period before the Civil War
the period before the episode of "bleeding Kansas"
the period after the Civil War
the period before Reconstruction
The Missouri Compromise is a good example of ...
sectional balance
bicameralism
disunionism
manumission
One of the weaknesses of the Constitution was the absence of consensus on whether the United States was ...
a nation of states or a nation of citizens
a more perfect union or a confederation
a republic or a democracy
ruled by a Whig or a Democrat party system
What are these--separation of powers; a system of checks and balances; bicameralism--the underlying principles of ...
the Articles of Confederation
Manifest Destiny
the Whig Party belief system
the Constitution
The basic principle of constitutional unionism assumed that the Union's perpetuity rested on ...
consensus, i.e. the "mutual affections" of its citizens
sectional crises and westward expansion
nullification and tariffs
statesmanship and the Wilmot Proviso
What is one of the four principles of American constitutionalism (as defined by Madison)?
The People are the source of sovereignty
The States are the source of sovereignty
Slavery must be abolished
Indians form foreign nations
The Federalist Papers were written in support of the ratification of the Constitution mostly by ...
Thomas Jefferson and John Mason
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
William Bradford and John Winthrop
Pocahontas and John Rolfe
There is a fugitive slave clause in ...
the Declaratin of Independence
the Constitution
the Federalist Papers
the Wilmot Proviso
The Great Compromise refers to ...
adding a fugitive slave clause to the Articles of Confederation
the Three-Fifths Compromise
the legislative power being divided into the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate representing the states
creating public lands west of the Alleghanies
The belief that territorial expansion of the United States was inevitable was called ...
westward expansion
Manifest Destiny
mass politics
the Oregon Trail
"free soil north of thirty-six thirty" obviously refers to ...
the Missouri line
the Mason-Dixon line
the spoils system
the Wilmot Proviso
The secret author of the nullification theory of 1838 was ...
Bill Clinton
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Thomas Jefferson
The most serious threat to the compromise tradition that had developed in the wake of the enthusiasm that followed the framing of the Constitution was ...
the demise of the Federalist Party
the extension of slavery in the West
the underground railroad
the Ostend Manifesto
Which parties made up the second party system in the United States?
The Federalist Party and the Republican Democratic Party
The (Jacksonian) (Republican) democratic Party and the Whig Party (Henry Clay's party)
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party
The Free soil Party and the Liberty Party
What did the new "politics of conscience" (after the 1830s) deplore?
compromise on slavery
the abolition of slavery
the Missouri line
the underground railroad
The spoils system (rewarding people who help candidates get elected with jobs) was first used by ...
Andrew Jackson when elected president
John Caldwell Calhoun when he was Vice-President
Henry Clay of Kentucky for the 1850 compromise
David Wilmot with his proviso
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?