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All of the folowing were true of the american regular army on the eve of the war of 1812 except

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Their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on the militia

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When the united states entered the War of 1812, it was

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Militarily unprepared

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Canada became an important battleground in the war of 1812 because

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British forces were weakest there

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The performance of the United States' Navy in the War of 1812 could be best described as

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Much better than that of the army

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America's campaign against Canada in theWar of 1812 was

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Poorly conceived because it split-up the military

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Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possibke dissolution, was the Battle of

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Plattsburgh

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British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in

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Florida

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The British attack on Fort McHenry

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Inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of

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New Orleans

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The Battle of New Orleans

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saw British troops defeated by Andrew Jackson's soldiers

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The Battle of New Orleans

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unleashed a wave of nationalism and self-confidence

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One result of the American naval victories during the War of 1812 was

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a British naval blockade of the American coast

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At the peace conference at Ghent, the British began to withdraw many of its earlier demands for all of the following reasons except

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the American victory at New Orleans

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The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions that included a call for

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a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war was declared

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The resolutions from the Hartford Convention

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helped to cause the death of the Federalist party

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From a global perspective, the War of 1812 was

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of little importance

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In diplomatic and economic terms, the War of 1812

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bred greater American independence

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The outcome of the War of 1812 was

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a stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States

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The Rush-Bagot agreement

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limited naval armaments on the Great Lakes

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After the War of 1812, Europe

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returned to conservativism, illiberalism, and reaction

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One of the most important by-products of the War of 1812 was

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a heightened spirit of nationalism

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One of the nationally recognized American authors in the 1820s was

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Washington Irving

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Post-War of 1812 nationalism could be seen in all of the following except

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a revival of American religion

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At the end of the War of 1812, British manufacturers

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began dumping their goods in America at extremely low prices

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The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history

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that aimed to protect American industry

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Henry Clay's call for federally funded roads and canals received whole-hearted endorsement from

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the West

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New England opposed the American System's federally constructed roads because

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they would drain away needed population to the West

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Democratic-Republicans opposed Henry Clay's American System because

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they believed that it was unconstitutional

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The Era of Good Feelings

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was a misnomer, because the period was a troubled one

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With the demise of the Federalist party,

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the Democratic-Republicans established one-party rule

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The panic of 1819 brought with it all of the following except

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inflation.

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One of the major causes of the panic of 1819 was

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overspeculation in frontier lands

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The western land boom resulted from all of the following except

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the construction of railroad lines west of the Mississippi River

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One of the demands made by the West to help it to grow was

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cheap money

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When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment in response to Missouri's request for admission to the Union, the South thought that the amendment

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would threaten the sectional balance

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The first state entirely west of the Mississippi River to be carved out of the Louisiana Territory was

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Missouri

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As a result of the Missouri Compromise

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slavery was banned north of 36° 30¢ in the Louisiana Purchase territory

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All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that

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sectionalism was reduced

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In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall

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favored "loose construction."

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John Marshall uttered his famous legal dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" in

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McCulloch v. Maryland

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In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of

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states' rights

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People moved into the Old Northwest for all of the following reasons except

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as a haven for runaway slaves

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Settlers from the South who moved into the Old Northwest territory were known as

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Butternuts

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When moving to the Old Northwest, settlers from the North wanted to do all of the following except

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oppose increased taxes to fund their programs

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John Marshall's rulings upheld a defense of property rights against public pressure in

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Fletcher v. Peck.

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The United States' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feelings was

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John Quincy Adams

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The Treaty of 1818 with England

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called for a ten-year joint occupation of the Oregon country by both American citizens and British subjects

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Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining

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possession of Florida from the Spanish

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Spain sold Florida to the United States because it

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could not defend the area and would lose it in any case

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Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in Latin American countries that had successfully revolted because

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the ports of these nations were now open to lucrative trade

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The doctrine of non-colonization in the Monroe Doctrine was

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a response to the apparent designs of the Russians in Alaska and Oregon

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At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was

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incapable of being enforced by the United States

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Latin America's reaction to the Monroe Doctrine can best be described as

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unconcerned or unimpressed

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The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 fixed the southernmost limits of Russian occupation of North America at

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54° 40¢.

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The Monroe Doctrine was

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an expression of the illusion of deepening American isolationism from world affairs

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