1. History quiz!
Created by Educational Technology Network

2. Monroe Doctrine
Nationalism
Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
Era of Jackson 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question
Who issued the Monroe Doctrine and in what year?

4. Answer 1 – 10
President Monroe issued it in 1823

5. Question
What is the Monroe Doctrine?

6. Answer 1 – 20
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention

7. Question
T/F- According to the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. would interfere in European Affairs and meddle in European colonies

8. Answer 1 – 30
FALSE- According to the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. promised they would stay out of European affairs and would stay out of their territories.

9. Question
What European Nations still had territiories in North and South America?

10. Answer 1 – 40
Spain Britian and Portugal

11. Question
What did the U.S. gain from issuing the Monroe Doctrine?

12. Answer 1 – 50
It allowed the U.S. to show itself as a world power and spread its influence in Latin America without European interference.

13. Question
What is Nationalism?

14. Answer 2 – 10
A feeling of pride loyalty and protectiveness toward your country.

15. Question
Name the 3 main actions of the American System

16. Answer 2 – 20
Establish a protective tariff, a national bank, and improve the country’s transportation system

17. Question
The period during Monroe’s presidency in which the U.S. was not involved in any wars/conflicts. A time of pride peace and prosperity

18. Answer 2 – 30
The Era of Good Feelings

19. Question
What two agreements improved relations between the U.S. and Britian?

20. Answer 2 – 40
The Rush-Bagot Agreement(1817) limited each sides naval forces on the great lakes.
Convention of 1818 which set the 49th parallel as the U.S. Canadian border as west as the rocky mountains.

21. Question
What was the Adams-Onis treaty? Why was it established? Explain in detail for full points.

22. Answer 2 – 50
Spain and the U.S. disagreed on the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase and the ownership of West Florida. In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Spain handed Florida to the U.S. and gave up claims to the Texas Country.

23. Question
What is Sectionalism?

24. Answer 3 – 10
Sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country rather than to the nation as a whole.

25. Question
What were the interests of the North? What were the interests of the South?

26. Answer 3 – 20
Southerners were more focused on cotton and slavery while the North was more focused on manufacturing and trade

27. Question
How did Sectionalism affect the country as a whole?

28. Answer 3 – 30
The Northern and Southern states had their own interests to look after therefore making decision making extremely difficult since they couldn’t agree on a lot of things.

29. Question

30. Answer 3 – 40

31. Question

32. Answer 3 – 50

33. Question
What year did Missouri apply for statehood?

34. Answer 4 – 10
Missouri applied for statehood in 1817

35. Question
What was the number of free and slave states before Missouri applied for statehood?

36. Answer 4 – 20
The United States consisted of 11 slave states and 11 free states.

37. Question
Why would the addition of Missouri be an issue for the United States?

38. Answer 4 – 30
Adding Missouri would upset the balance, and divide the nation. If it entered as a free state, Southerners believed congress would have a free state majority and therefore ban slavery altogether.

39. Question
What is the Missouri Compromise?

40. Answer 4 – 40
The Missouri Compromise kept the balance of free and slave states by allowing Missouri to join as a slave state but it banned slavery north of the parallel in the louisana territory and allowed maine to come in as a free state.

41. Question

42. Answer 4 – 50

43. Question
In the election of 1824 Who did Jackson claim to support?
What did Adams support?

44. Answer 5 – 10
Jackson supported Americans who had been left out of politics, farmers in the south, western sttlers, and laborers in the North.
Adams wanted the nation to shift from a farming economy to a manufacturing economy.

45. Question
In the election of 1828, how did Jackson win the election?

46. Answer 5 – 20
He received most of his votes from people in the west and in the south because of his support of states rights.

47. Question
What is Jacksonian democracy?

48. Answer 5 – 30
A period in which more people voted new political practices were introduced and there was a sense of equality in politics.

49. Question
What is suffrage? What changes occurred in suffrage?

50. Answer 5 – 40
Suffrage is the right to vote. In western states, any white male over the age of 21 could vote. The requirement to own land in order to vote was eliminated. Women Native Americans and most African Americans however could still not vote.

51. Question
What is the spoils system? Who made up Jackson’s Kitchen cabinet?

52. Answer 5 – 50
The spoils system is handing out government jobs to supporters who supported and aided Jacskons’s presidency. It was called the spoils system because these people would gain the victory or “spoils” from helping a candidate reach presidency. Jacksons Kitchen cabinet was made up of Democratic leaders and newspaper editors which were unofficial advisers.