1. In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by... 
A. insisting that high protective tariffs were in the national interest. 
B. attempting unsuccessfully to have Congress repeal the Tariff of 1832. 
C. persuading Congress to pass new legislation enacting a compromise tariff to gradually reduce duties. 
D. ignoring the issue.

2. The Stamp Act Congress held in New York in 1765... 
A. was a failure because the nine colonies represented could not agree on a unified policy. 
B. protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists. 
C. formulated a set of resolves that threatened rebellion against Britain. 
D. accepted the constitutionality of the Sugar Act but not the Stamp Act. 

3. On the eve of European colonization of the Americas, most Western Europeans lived in... 
A. small, relatively isolated, rural communities. 
B. booming new cities and towns. 
C. the older cathedral cities. 
D. the castles that dotted the countryside.