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1 .       After the failure of Jefferson's Embargo Act, President Madison abandoned the policy of using American trade to try to force neutral rights concessions from England and France. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       The Ohio Valley Indian leader, the Prophet, argued that Indians must give up the white mans' ways and preserve Native American culture. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       For the United States, the War of 1812 was poorly planned and managed. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       While negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, the British ignored the United States's demand for recognition of its neutral rights and abandonment of the impressment policy. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       In the 1817 Rush-Bagot Agreement, the United States and Britain agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon Country for ten years. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       In the early 1820s, the United States and Britain issued a joint declaration opposing any restoration of the Spanish empire in the Americas. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       By 1820, Jeffersonian Republicans had come to accept most of Alexander Hamilton's economic policies. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Initially, the South opposed protective tariffs on the grounds that they increased the price of imports and hampered the export of cotton and tobacco. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Until 1819, there were an equal number of slave states and free states in the Union. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren were in favor of federally funded internal improvements. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       The Tallmadge Amendment was the first attempt to restrict the expansion of slavery since the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       The morality of slavery and the rights of African Americans were at the heart of the debate during the Missouri Crisis in 1819-1820. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       "In South Carolina Exposition and Protest," John C. Calhoun defended the right of a state to nullify an act of Congress. [Hint]

 
 






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