What did Thomas Jefferson believe was key to America's ability to develop a unique culture and institutions?
Question 1 options:
Distance from Europe
The influence of Native Americans
The revolutionary spirit
Democratic government
a
What was Thomas Jefferson's opinion of the nation's extensive frontiers?
Question 2 options:
It was untamed wilderness full of potential problems.
Indian territories were to be respected.
It was key to future national development.
It was viewed as a source of very expensive conflicts and thus to be avoided.
c
Where was the capital city prior to the construction of the new capital in Washington, D.C.?
Question 3 options:
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Charleston
c
Who built the capitol building in Washington, D.C.?
Question 4 options:
Only slaves
Both slaves and free workers
Only free workers
Both indentured servants and slaves
b
What region lagged behind the others in providing opportunities for public education for children before the Revolution?
Question 5
options:
Northeast
Mid-Atlantic
West
South
d
What did Noah Webster hope to achieve with the publication of his first book?
Question 6 options:
Uniform spelling and pronunciation for all
Education of the masses about U.S. history
More ethical and upstanding young men
Great profit to pay off his debt
a
In 1789 which state became the first to institute free public elementary education for all children?
Question 7 options:
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
b
What development enabled Scots-Irish Presbyterians to cement their place in American society?
Question 8 options:
Newspapers and magazines
Small farms and businesses
Public elementary and middle schools
Frontier colleges
d
What specifically American dilemmas were at the heart of the plays and essays produced by the Hartford Wits, a young literary group?
Question 9 options:
The role of the central government in a democratic republic
The role of taxation in a democratic republic
The question of citizenship and voting rights in a democratic republic
The morality of slavery in a democratic republic
a
What group of Americans was thought to be the most avid readers of novels in the 1790s?
Question 10 options:
Poor women
Younger women
Women of all ages
Older women
c
What position did nineteenth-century writer Washington Irving
take on Indian-English conflicts?
Question 11 options:
He celebrated colonial accounts that celebrated Indian courage.
He challenged colonial accounts that celebrated white atrocities.
He celebrated colonial accounts that celebrated white atrocities.
He challenged colonial accounts for celebrating Indian courage.
b
What culture inspired Washington Irving's writing, especially "Rip
Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Question 12 options:
Native American culture
African American culture
Anglo-American culture
Dutch American culture
d
What percentage of households of middling wealth owned books by 1820?
Question 13 options:
10 percent
40 percent
80 percent
100 percent
c
What university established the nation's first medical school?
Question 14 options:
The University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Harvard University
Columbia University
a
How did Anglo-American attitudes toward Indians differ from those toward African Americans in the late eighteenth century?
Question 15 options:
Anglos believed that Indians were more similar to whites and could be assimilated.
Anglos believed that African Americans were more similar to whites and could be assimilated.
Indians were treated better because Anglos wanted Indian land even though they held them to be inferior.
African Americans were considered key to the nation's future even though they were inferior.
a
Who established the American
Colonization Society in 1817?
Question 16 options:
Ministers, merchants, and slave owners from North and South
Southern slave owners and northern merchants
Southern slave owners and southern ministers
Northern merchants and ministers
b
What caused most slave owners to refuse to emancipate their slaves in the 1790s?
Question 17 options:
A weak market for slaves
The upcoming end of the international slave trade
The expansion of cotton production
A decrease in available immigrant workers
c
How did President Thomas Jefferson create a vibrant social culture in Washington, D.C.?
Question 18 options:
He was the first president to free his slaves.
Congressmen were required to live in the city year-round.
He authorized the creation of important cultural institutions.
He opened the White House to visitors regularly.
d
The Louisiana Purchase raised questions about the status of which group?
Question 19 options:
right of religious freedom
authority of the judiciary
right of the federal government to buy land from foreign nations
right of Indians in land disputes
c- rights of the federal government....
What was Jefferson's philosophy about the role of government?
Question 20 options:
The government should reflect the values of the elected party.
The federal government should be abolished.
Federal power should be limited.
Federal power should be expansive.
c
21. What happened when Jefferson
refused to continue paying the Barbary States of North Africa for protection of American merchant ships?
Question 21 options:
American ships went on the offensive and attacked Barbary ships.
Nothing, but it revealed Jefferson's savvy and strength as a leader.
Barbary pirates resumed their attack on American ships.
Barbary and the United States began a decade-long war.
c
Napoleon
wanted to unload the entire Louisiana Territory on the United States because
Question 22 options:
Jefferson offered him a price he couldn't refuse.
his defeat in Haiti had soured him on the Americas.
he thought it would resolve the conflict with the Indians along the U.S. border.
the French Revolution required all of his attention.
d
The Louisiana Purchase raised constitutional
questions regarding the
Question 23 options:
right of religious freedom.
right of the federal government to buy land from foreign nations.
rights of Indians in land disputes.
authority of the judiciary.
b
How did Indians assist the expedition of Lewis and Clark?
Question 24 options:
Indians tricked Lewis and Clark into believing they were lost when they were not in order to protect their land.
Indians agreed not to harm the expedition members in exchange for weapons.
Indians lived throughout the territory and provided food, shelter, and navigation assistance.
Indians did not challenge the authority of the expedition leaders even when they made bad decision.
c
On the Lewis and Clark expedition, African Americans were
Question 25 options:
just as vital as Indians, providing key labor support.
sent to lead the expedition as a safety precaution for the whites.
not permitted west of the Mississippi River.
present but played minimal roles in the expedition.
c
Jefferson was popular among farmers when he stood for reelection in 1804 because he
Question 26 options:
cut taxes on agricultural production and incentivized mass distribution.
ran a racist campaign that celebrated rural, white, working men.
gave away federal land for free to working farmers.
made it easier for farmers to purchase land from the federal government.
d
What act or case determined that the Supreme Court had the authority to decide if federal laws were constitutional?
Question 27 options:
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Judiciary Act
Marshall Act
a
Why was John Marshall one of the most important chief justices of the Supreme Court in U.S. history?
Question 28 options:
He was the longest-serving chief.
He led hearings on cases that established the structure of the federal government.
He served during a time of great conflict and turmoil.
He achieved more unanimous rulings than any other chief justice.
b
The power of judicial review, established by the Supreme Court by 1820, was significant to the development of the young nation because it
Question 29 options:
determined that the judiciary was as powerful as Congress or the president.
led to the establishment of a court system that was more powerful than Congress.
ultimately led to the weakening of the federal judiciary in favor of the state judiciary.
created another branch of government as corrupt and political as the others.
a
What did the continued practice of impressment of American sailors by the British Royal Navy signal in the nineteenth century?
Question 30 options:
The United States was politically strong.
France was militarily strong.
Great Britain was militarily weak.
The United States was still politically weak.
d
New England merchants responded to the Embargo Act of 1807
Question 31 options:
with support because they saw it as a way to punish Great Britain.
by opposing it in spirit but complying in practice as a sign of national unity.
by opposing it and seeking to have Jefferson removed from office.
by opposing it and attempting to smuggle goods through Canada.
d
How did the Embargo Act undermine Jefferson's reputation as a strong Democratic-Republican?
Question 32 options:
Despite years of support from both farmers and merchants, the Embargo Act made Jefferson unpopular.
Jefferson became a Federalist after being rejected by Democratic-Republicans.
Jefferson's Democratic-Republican views were contradicted by the Embargo Act.
Jefferson was no longer heralded as a hero who fathered the American republic.
c
What helped the American economy recover from the Embargo Act?
Question 33 options:
Removal of Democratic-Republicans from office
Expansion of markets for sugar and tobacco
Development of the Louisiana Purchase
The end of conflict between France and Great Britain
c
Jefferson supported political revolutions in America and France but not Haiti because the Haitian Revolution
Question 34 options:
was not by the people, for the people.
was not backed by republican principles.
was unlikely to succeed, and he didn't want to alienate France.
challenged racial slavery and encouraged black freedom.
d
The continued conflicts with Great Britain and France highlighted that the United States needed
Question 35 options:
a stronger, larger, better funded military.
to find and use its own natural resources.
an expansive manufacturing system.
to expand trade with other European powers.
b
How did technological advances affect the lives of both free and enslaved men
and women?
Question 36 options:
It made their work easier and shortened the workday.
It added to their burdens by increasing employer expectations.
It made their work easier but their workday longer.
It did not really trickle down to common working people.
b
The rapid growth of the United States in the early nineteenth century
Question 37 options:
gave Democratic-Republicans an excuse to expand federal powers in secret.
resulted in stronger, localized state governments with diverse priorities.
forced the federal government to pay attention to the needs of western states.
required the expansion of powers of the federal government.
d
Eli Whitney earned a fortune with the invention of the
Question 38 options:
cotton gin.
spinning wheel.
rifle lathe.
coffee press.
c- rifle lathe
Who originally integrated steam power technology with the spinning wheel?
Question 39 options:
British manufacturers
Moses Brown
Eli Whitney
American manufacturers
a
In the 1810s, what region of the United States was home to a vast series of
cotton mills built to look like meetinghouses?
Question 40 options:
New England
Mid-Atlantic
South
West
a
Why was the invention of the cotton gin such a big deal?
Question 41 options:
One person operating a cotton gin could clean as much cotton in one day as several workers cleaning by hand could do in a week.
One person operating a cotton gin could clean as much cotton in one hour as several workers could clean by hand in a day.
The cotton gin could be operated by anyone, while hand-picking required technical skills.
The cotton gin was cheaper to build and more durable than its predecessor, the cotton brush.
b
How did the American system of manufacturing affect attitudes toward workers?
Question 42 options:
Skilled workers were even more valued because they were rare.
Common, unskilled workers were treated better because they were needed.
Skilled workers were no longer needed because anyone could work in manufacturing.
Only men were trusted enough to work in factories, even doing work only women previously had done.
c
How did husbands and wives work together in making clothing and other fabrics?
Question 43 options:
Men did the weaving while women spun the yarn and sewed together the cloth.
Women did the weaving while men spun the yarn and sewed together the cloth.
The tasks of weaving, spinning, and sewing became interchangeable for men and women.
Men were only involved with fabric at the point of purchase of materials; women completed other aspects such as weaving, spinning, and sewing.
a
The
technological advancements in the production of clothing meant the typical southern plantation mistress
Question 44 options:
continued to do much of her work herself as a way to maintain her domestic authority, only employing others for cooking and cleaning.
maintained control over food preparation while delegating more tedious tasks related to weaving, spinning, and sewing to servants and slaves.
increasingly served as domestic managers and divided the tasks of clothing production and other household duties among her servants and slaves.
primarily ordered premade clothing and precut fabric from the recently established factories in northern cities, the most convenient option.
c
What impact did the invention of the cotton gin have on slavery?
Question 45 options:
People were inspired to abolish slavery more rapidly because less labor was required.
Cotton plantations expanded, which increased reliance on slavery.
People promoted abolition for women and children but continued enslavement of men.
It led to the end of the international slave trade in 1808.
b
What was the most common practice among southern planters to increase their slave population after 1808?
Question 46 options:
Reliance on natural reproduction
Smuggling from Africa and the Caribbean
Trade with France and Spain
Enslavement of free blacks
a
How did the expansion of cotton cultivation affect Indian relations?
Question 47 options:
Relations improved because there was greater opportunity for wealth for everyone.
Relations stabilized because Indians cultivated cotton and benefited as well.
Relations were doomed because whites wanted more and more Indian land for cotton.
Relations were strained because Indians adopted white Americans' technological developments for their own gain.
c
How did the expansion of southern sugarcane and cotton plantations further damage slave families even more than they already were?
Question 48 options:
The discipline on these plantations was so violent that a greater number of people were killed.
Babies were often killed so as to ensure women would work the fields rather than care for their infants.
Young slave men and women were chosen to move west and do this back-breaking work, away from their families.
Only men were chosen to plant and harvest sugarcane and cotton, away from their families.
c
Many white planters felt threatened by the evangelical spirit displayed by slaves in
religious worship because they
Question 49 options:
were against black religious life and culture, believing blacks were evil and brought the devil into the community .
wanted blacks to worship only the Christian God, not African gods.
feared religious fervor combined with revolutionary ideas would inspire an insurrection.
feared that if blacks believed in the Christian God and converted, then the planters would have to free the slaves on theological grounds.
c
The end of the international slave trade in 1808 meant that U.S. slaves were
Question 50 options:
disciplined and punished more severely.
given more adequate food and shelter.
treated no differently than before.
more closely monitored for fear of rebellion.
b