History test 3

Question 1

In order to pass his controversial debt reduction plan, Hamilton agreed to do what?

Answer 1

Move the national capital to a more southern location

Question 2

What was significant about the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 2

It showed that the federal government could enforce its own laws

Question 3

How did the British respond to Washington 1793 proclamation of American neutrality during the war between Britain and France?

Answer 3

By seizing American ships in the West Indies

Question 4

How was Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800 a “revolution”?

Answer 4

It was a significant shift in Federal policy and ideology

Question 5

Jefferson hoped that declaring an embargo against Britain would have what effect?

Answer 5

Hurt the British economy by depriving British manufacturers of trade with American markets

Question 6

How did Jefferson think he overstepped his presidential principles by purchasing the Louisiana Territory?

Answer 6

The Constitution did not expressly allow the government to buy land from a foreign nation

Question 7

Why did the British policy of impressment strain relation with the United states?

Answer 7

American sailors were forced to serve on British ships

Question 8

The term “Revolution of 1800” compared Thomas Jefferson’s presidential election to significant event?

Answer 8

The American Revolution

Question 9

The War Hawks believed that war with Britain would ultimately have what effect on the US?

Answer 9

Restore national honor with a military victory

Question 10

Hamilton’s plans for the economy involved which of the following?

Answer 10

Selling bonds to pay US debts and raising taxes to play the interest on the bonds

Question 11

How did the Whiskey Rebellion affect the relationship between the 2 political factions forming in the US?

Answer 11

It intensified their conflict and encouraged the development of two formal political parties

Question 12

Which of the following was a result of the War of 1812?

Answer 12

American Indian resistance east of the Mississippi River ended

Question 13

How did the British try to limit American settlement in the Northwest Territory?

Answer 13

By providing weapons and resources to the American Indians

Question 14

What was arguably the greatest Americans victory of the War of 1812?

Answer 14

The Battle of New Orleans

Question 15

What were the 1st two official political parties of the United States?

Answer 15

Federalists and Democratic Republicans

Question 16

Which political party believed that there were “implied powers” in the constitution that allowed for a loose interpretation of the constitution?

Answer 16

Federalists

Question 17

Every decision and act that Washington made during his early presidency became a tradition that would be followed moving forward. What is known as setting a what?

Answer 17

A precedent

Question 18

Washington formed a group of federal leaders who headed the major departments of the executive branch and advised him on policy called what?

Answer 18

A cabinet

Question 19

The power of the Supreme Court to review acts of Congress and the President to determine if they are constitutional is known as what?

Answer 19

Judicial Review

Question 20

What were the small group of wars fought between the US and the northern Africa states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli called?

Answer 20

Barbary Wars

Question 21

How did John Adams become the 1st Vice President of the United States?

Answer 21

He had the 2nd most electoral votes

Question 22

Why was the Battle of New Orleans significant?

Answer 22

The strange timing of victory leads many Americans to believe it had forced the British to surrender and sign the Treaty of Ghent

Question 23

Why was Aaron Burr replaced by James Madison as VP during Thomas Jefferson’s reelection 1804?

Answer 23

Burr was facing murder charges after killing Alexander Hamilton

Question 24

During the Napoleonic War between France and Britain, the US benefited financially by picking up the transatlantic trade slack. What was this known as.

Answer 24

Re-export trade

Question 25

During the War of 1812, the British invasion won a symbolic victory by destroying which US landmark?

Answer 25

The White House

Question 26

During the session of the year 1790 it was expedient to exercise the legislative power granted by the Constitution of the United States ‘to lay and collect excises.’ In a majority of the States scarcely an objection was heard to this mode of taxation. In some, indeed, alarms were at first conceived, until they were banished by reason and patriotism. In the four western counties of Pennsylvania a prejudice, fostered and imbittered by the artifice of men who labored of an ascendency over the will of others by the guidance of their passions, produced symptoms of riot and violence.”
–George Washington, State of the Union Address, November 19, 1794
According to this statement, Washington would most likely agree to which of the following opinions?

Answer 26

The federal government acted lawfully subduing the Whiskey Rebellion

Question 27

“Still one thing more, fellow-citizens-a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
–Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
The statement by President Jefferson aligns most closely with which of the following?

Answer 27

Reducing federal taxes

Question 28

Based on the map, what key geographic advantage did the Louisiana Purchase offer the United States?

Answer 28

It gave Americans control of the Mississippi River

Question 29

The court system shown in this chart was established by what?

Answer 29

Judiciary Act 1789

Question 30

The intrographic best supports the conclusion that Hamilton’s plan did which of the following?

Answer 30

Transferred wealth from the South to the North

Question 31

“All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this treaty shall be ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned. All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever taken by either party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this Treaty, excepting only the Islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the Artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places.”
–Treaty of Ghent, 1814
What does the excerpt from the Treaty of Ghent suggest?

Answer 31

Neither Britain nor the United States won a clear victory

Question 32

Resolved, that the capture and condemnation under the orders of the British government, and adjustications of their courts of Admiralty, of American vessels and their cargoes, on the pretext of their being unemployed in trade with the enemies of Great Britain, prohibited in time of peace, is an unprovoked aggression upon the property of the citizens of these United States , a violation of their neutral rights, and an encroachment upon their national independence.”
–Thomas Jefferson, February 14, 1806
President Jefferson most likely made this statement in support of which of the following actions?

Answer 32

Embargo on trade with Britain

Question 33

When the Democratic Republicans took power, they spoke of the election as a ‘revolution.’ Jefferson insisted that ‘the Revolution of 1800 was as real a Revolution in principles of our government as that of 1776 was in its form.”
Which of the following was a revolutionary aspect of Jefferson’s administration compared to the previous administrations?

Answer 33

Jefferson cut taxes, cut expenses for the military, & streamlined government departments

Question 34

He declared US neutrality in foreign wars and set many precedents in early America

Answer 34

George Washington

Question 35

One of the leaders of the 1st US expedition of the Louisiana Territory in 1804

Answer 35

William Clark

Question 36

The 1st Secretary of the Department of War

Answer 36

Henry Knox

Question 37

While serving as Vice President he shot and killed one of his political rivals

Answer 37

Aaron Burr

Question 38

As President he encouraged congress to expand the US Army and create the 1st US Navy

Answer 38

John Adams

Question 39

As a General during the War of 1812 he was victorious at the Battle of New Orleans

Answer 39

Andrew Jackson

Question 40

He was the 1st Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court & negotiated an important treaty with Britain

Answer 40

John Jay

Question 41

During the War of 1812, he writes a poem that would become the American national anthem

Answer 41

Francis Scott Key

Question 42

Served as the 1st Secretary of State and was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 42

Thomas Jefferson

Question 43

A long serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he came up with the idea of Judicial Review

Answer 43

John Marshall

Question 44

Served as the 1st Secretary of treasury and would play an instrumental role in the 1800 election

Answer 44

Alexander Hamilton

Question 45

Future US President that was victorious in the Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 45

William Harrison