1. Name the principal debaters of the Tariff of 1816.

Answer: John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster.


2. Which president presided over the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer: James Monroe


3. This compromise admitted one state as a free state and another as a slave state. The compromise also forbade further slavery north of 36 degrees 30 minutes. Name the compromise.

Answer: Missouri Compromise (1820).


4. What are the two main tenets of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer: non-colonization and non-intervention in the western hemisphere by other world powers


5. What future president was instrumental in persuading James Monroe to create the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer: John Quincy Adams


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