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Chapter 7: National Growing Pains

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	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.    True  False

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

	For the United States, the War of 1812 was poorly planned and managed.    True  False

	While negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, the British ignored the United States' demand for recognition of its neutral rights and abandonment of the impressment policy.    True  False

	In the 1817 Rush-Bagot Agreement, the United States and Britain agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon Country for ten years.    True  False

	The "Transcontinental Treaty" obliged the U.S. to pay $5 million to the Spanish government in return for Florida.    True  False

	From 1790 to 1820,the population of the U.S. more than doubled.    True  False

	There was backing for high tariffs in every section of the U.S. in the early nineteenth century.    True  False

	Until 1819, there were an equal number of slave states and free states in the Union.    True  False

	John Quincy Adams was in favor of federally funded internal improvements.    True  False

	The Tallmadge Amendment was the first attempt to restrict the expansion of slavery since the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.    True  False

	The morality of slavery and the rights of African Americans were at the heart of the debate during the Missouri Crisis in 1819-1820.    True  False

	In The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, John C. Calhoun defended the right of a state to nullify an act of Congress.    True  False

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