UIL Social Studies Practice Test

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Thomas Hart Benton was a Democratic party leader who served as a US senator from 1821 to 1851. Serving 30 years, he was one of the first senators to represent which state?

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Missouri

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Which of the following figures was NOT central to the Petticoat Affair? Martin Van Buren, John Eaton, John C. Calhoun, Roger B. Taney

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Roger B. Taney

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The ____ were various factions within the Jeffersonian Republican Party in the use between 1804 and 1812.

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tertium quids

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The Panic of 1837 was a major economic recession, largely caused by President Jackson's decision to...

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withdraw federal funds from the Second Bank of the United States

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The term "Jacobin" was used by Federalists in the US to describe...

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Thomas Jefferson's followers

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The US Constitution barred electors from voting for two people from their own state. This prevented Virginia electors from voting for what combination in the 1800 presidential election?

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Thomas Jefferson & George Washington

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The outcome of the 1800 election came down to what state? Options: Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland

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South Carolina

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The Aurora was the leading Republican newspaper in _____ in the 1790s and early 1800s.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Sedition Act of 1798 ______

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made it a crime to criticize the government.

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In 1793, slaves took over the French colony of ____ and proclaimed their freedom. This event may have inspired Gabriel Prosser to plan the slave upraising in Virginia in 1800.

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Saint-Domingue