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John C. Calhoun proposed the Doctrine of Nullification in opposition to the high
protective tariffs passed by Congress in 1832. The doctrine threatened the
stability if the new nation. According to the Doctrine of Nullification, the power to
declare an act of Congress rested with:
A) the state legislature
B) the president.
C) the Supreme Court
D) Congress - Correct Answer-A) the state legislature
The tariff of 18832 led to the Nullification Crisis of that year. John C. Calhoun,
who was vice president of the United States, supported South Carolina's
nullification legislation that allowed a state to nullify an act of Congress. South
Carolina said that the federal government could not collect the tariff. A crisis
was averted with the Compromise of 1833. Although the tariff was lowered,
President Andrew Jackson threatened to send in Federal troops to stop
nullification. Subsequently, South Carolina repealed the Ordinance of
Nullification and a constitutional crisis was averted. This issue intensified the
sectional issue that would lead to the Civil War.
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During the Civil War, geographical consideration often determined military
strategy. One of the major military strategies of the North was based on
geographically dividing the South at the:
A) Appalachian Mountains.
B) Mississippi River.
C) Gulf of Mexico.
D) Ohio River Valley - Correct Answer-B) Mississippi River.
Northern control of the Mississippi River would effectively isolate five southern
states from the Confederacy (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and
Texas). Controlling the Mississippi River would geographically split the
Confederacy and limit the supply avenues open to the South. Choices A and D
can be eliminated since both areas were already under Union control at the start
of the Civil War. The military strategy of the North was based on the inevitability
of the South having to fight a defensive war. This same approach let to a
blockade of the southern coast. With the fall of Vicksburg in 1863, the
Mississippi came under Union control.
Which of the following is true regarding Andrew Johnson's presidency during
Reconstruction?
A) President Johnson favored a non-conciliatory approach to the defeated South.
B) President Johnson vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts.
C) President Johnson was impeached by the Senate of the United States.
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D) President Johnson campaigned in favor of the Fourteenth Amendment's
provision to extend citizenship to former slaves. - Correct Answer-B) President
Johnson vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts.
President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy (1866-67) of leniency to the
defeated South angered and frustrated the Radical Republicans in control of
Congress. Johnson vetoes a number ob bills designed to protect the freedom of
the former slaves. Among the acts vetoes were the acts creating the Freedmen's
Bureau and several civil rights acts. Over the opposition of Johnson, the Radicals
in Congress passed Reconstruction acts that divided the South into five military
districts, disenfranchised white southern males, and forced states to ratify the
Fourteenth Amendment, which extended citizenship to former slaves, A
constitutional crisis resulted when Johnson removed government official
violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House impeached Johnson but he was
acquitted by one vote in the Senate (1867).
Which of the following represents the proper chronological order (from earliest to
most recent) based on the emergence of each party in the United States?
A) Whig, Republican, Democratic, Federalist
B) Federalist, Whig, Democratic, Republican
C) Federalist, Democratic, Whig, Republican
D) Democratic, Federalist, Republican, Whig - Correct Answer-C) Federalist,
Democratic, Whig, Republican
The correct chronological order is Federalist Party (1789), Democratic Party
(1824), Whig Party (1832), and Republican Party (1854). Simply by knowing
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which of the parties listed developed first (the Federalist) or which developed
last (the Republicans) would allow you to eliminate two choices, A and D.
Which of the following had the most revolutionary impact on the economic
development of the American West during the nineteenth century?
A) The long drive
B) The invention of the barbed wire
C) The refrigerated railroad car
D) The steamboat - Correct Answer-B) The invention of the barbed wire
You can eliminate choice A, moving cattle from one area to another (for
example, from Texas to Wyoming), and choice C, the refrigerated railroad car
(invented in the late nineteenth century, because neither was revolutionary in
the economic development of the West. The steamboat (choice D) affected the
economic development of the Mississippi basin but is too limited an answer to
be correct. But barbed wire was revolutionary in its economic impact on the
West because it doomed the open cattle range, making it possible for thousands
of homesteaders to fence off land to prevent roaming cattle from destroying
crops. The commercial practicality of barbed wire, made possible by the
machine invented by J. F. Glidden in 1874, resulted in much open-range land
being privately owned by 1890, encouraging the development of stock farming,
centralization, and town building. Some historians compare the importance of
barbed wire in the West to that of the cotton gin in the South.
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the period from 1840 to
1880 primarily came from:
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CSET MULTIPLE SUBJECTS SUBTEST 1 ACTUAL EXAM NEWEST /
CSET MULTIPLE SUBJECTS SUBTEST 1 PREPARATION/CSET
MULTIPLE SUBJECTS SUBTEST 1 PRACTICE EXAM WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS| BRAND NEW
VERSION!
John C. Calhoun proposed the Doctrine of Nullification in opposition to the high
protective tariffs passed by Congress in 1832. The doctrine threatened the
stability if the new nation. According to the Doctrine of Nullification, the power to
declare an act of Congress rested with:
A) the state legislature
B) the president.
C) the Supreme Court
D) Congress - Correct Answer-A) the state legislature
The tariff of 18832 led to the Nullification Crisis of that year. John C. Calhoun,
who was vice president of the United States, supported South Carolina's
nullification legislation that allowed a state to nullify an act of Congress. South
Carolina said that the federal government could not collect the tariff. A crisis
was averted with the Compromise of 1833. Although the tariff was lowered,
President Andrew Jackson threatened to send in Federal troops to stop
nullification. Subsequently, South Carolina repealed the Ordinance of
Nullification and a constitutional crisis was averted. This issue intensified the
sectional issue that would lead to the Civil War.
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, CSET Multiple Subjects Subtest 1 Actual Exam
During the Civil War, geographical consideration often determined military
strategy. One of the major military strategies of the North was based on
geographically dividing the South at the:
A) Appalachian Mountains.
B) Mississippi River.
C) Gulf of Mexico.
D) Ohio River Valley - Correct Answer-B) Mississippi River.
Northern control of the Mississippi River would effectively isolate five southern
states from the Confederacy (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and
Texas). Controlling the Mississippi River would geographically split the
Confederacy and limit the supply avenues open to the South. Choices A and D
can be eliminated since both areas were already under Union control at the start
of the Civil War. The military strategy of the North was based on the inevitability
of the South having to fight a defensive war. This same approach let to a
blockade of the southern coast. With the fall of Vicksburg in 1863, the
Mississippi came under Union control.
Which of the following is true regarding Andrew Johnson's presidency during
Reconstruction?
A) President Johnson favored a non-conciliatory approach to the defeated South.
B) President Johnson vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts.
C) President Johnson was impeached by the Senate of the United States.
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D) President Johnson campaigned in favor of the Fourteenth Amendment's
provision to extend citizenship to former slaves. - Correct Answer-B) President
Johnson vetoed numerous Radical Republican congressional acts.
President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy (1866-67) of leniency to the
defeated South angered and frustrated the Radical Republicans in control of
Congress. Johnson vetoes a number ob bills designed to protect the freedom of
the former slaves. Among the acts vetoes were the acts creating the Freedmen's
Bureau and several civil rights acts. Over the opposition of Johnson, the Radicals
in Congress passed Reconstruction acts that divided the South into five military
districts, disenfranchised white southern males, and forced states to ratify the
Fourteenth Amendment, which extended citizenship to former slaves, A
constitutional crisis resulted when Johnson removed government official
violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House impeached Johnson but he was
acquitted by one vote in the Senate (1867).
Which of the following represents the proper chronological order (from earliest to
most recent) based on the emergence of each party in the United States?
A) Whig, Republican, Democratic, Federalist
B) Federalist, Whig, Democratic, Republican
C) Federalist, Democratic, Whig, Republican
D) Democratic, Federalist, Republican, Whig - Correct Answer-C) Federalist,
Democratic, Whig, Republican
The correct chronological order is Federalist Party (1789), Democratic Party
(1824), Whig Party (1832), and Republican Party (1854). Simply by knowing
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which of the parties listed developed first (the Federalist) or which developed
last (the Republicans) would allow you to eliminate two choices, A and D.
Which of the following had the most revolutionary impact on the economic
development of the American West during the nineteenth century?
A) The long drive
B) The invention of the barbed wire
C) The refrigerated railroad car
D) The steamboat - Correct Answer-B) The invention of the barbed wire
You can eliminate choice A, moving cattle from one area to another (for
example, from Texas to Wyoming), and choice C, the refrigerated railroad car
(invented in the late nineteenth century, because neither was revolutionary in
the economic development of the West. The steamboat (choice D) affected the
economic development of the Mississippi basin but is too limited an answer to
be correct. But barbed wire was revolutionary in its economic impact on the
West because it doomed the open cattle range, making it possible for thousands
of homesteaders to fence off land to prevent roaming cattle from destroying
crops. The commercial practicality of barbed wire, made possible by the
machine invented by J. F. Glidden in 1874, resulted in much open-range land
being privately owned by 1890, encouraging the development of stock farming,
centralization, and town building. Some historians compare the importance of
barbed wire in the West to that of the cotton gin in the South.
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the period from 1840 to
1880 primarily came from:
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