True/False

Question 1

Alexander Hamilton used Publius as his pen name

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Antifederalists immediately supported the ratification of the Constitution

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Popular Sovereignty is the idea that the ultimate source of governmental power lies in the people

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Changes to the Declaration of Independence are called amendments

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Federalism is the unity of powers of national and state level of government

Answer 5

False

Question 6

The American core value of individualism never caused problems with the Confederation government

Answer 6

False

Question 7

With the creation of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Constitutional Convention reached a compromise

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Patrick Henry originally opposed the Constitution

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Framers of the Constitution generally recognized that man in inherently sinful

Answer 9

True

Question 10

George Washington was tempted to accept the offer to become king

Answer 10

False

Question 11

During the very first session of Congress, James Madison said “We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide. Our successors will have an easier task”

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Thomas Jefferson was America’s the very first head of the State Department

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The Judiciary Act of 1798 set the number of Supreme Court justices at six

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Assumption was the government’s release of all state debts into state hands

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Those who advocated less flexibility on a given constitutional issue were called loose constructionists

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Under the Jay Treaty, America came out on top due to the strong bargaining condition of a powerful navy

Answer 16

False

Question 17

During the Whiskey Rebellion, President Washington himself led the troops that went out to put it down

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Daniel Boone is known as one of America’s greatest politicians

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The Alien and Sedition Act greatly expanded free speech right in the U.S.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

The Judiciary Act of 1801 decreased the number of federal judges

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were two very important Republican leaders

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Henry Knox was the first head of the war department

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Hamilton had nothing to do with the report on public credit

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Federalists favored a pro-British policy

Answer 24

True

Question 25

John Adams was a republican

Answer 25

False (was a federalist)

Question 26

Daniel Webster was the only member on John Tyler’s cabinet to resign

Answer 26

False

Question 27

John Tyler was the first Vice President to become president due to the president dying while in office

Answer 27

True

Question 28

The Oregon trail was one of the main trails that led settlers west

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Santa Ana was dictator of Mexico during Texas’ fight for independence

Answer 29

True

Question 30

The idea of manifest destiny-is that America was not providentially ordained to possess the North American continent

Answer 30

False

Question 31

President Tyler was very popular within the Whig Party

Answer 31

False

Question 32

President Jackson was more than willing to annex Texas

Answer 32

False

Question 33

President Polk wanted to raise the tariff and do away with the independent treasury system

Answer 33

False

Question 34

Britian wanted the Oregon boundary to be drawn along the Colorado River

Answer 34

False

Question 35

The Santa Fe Trail involved trade with the Spanish

Answer 35

True

Question 36

John Brown was a fanatical anti-abolitionist

Answer 36

False

Question 37

The Sack of Lawrence involved the burning, looting, and destruction of much of the city of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery ruffians

Answer 37

True

Question 38

John C. Fremont was nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for president in the election of 1856

Answer 38

False

Question 39

Senator Steven A. Douglas reopened sectional wounds by proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Henry Clay led the opposition against the compromise of 1850

Answer 40

False

Question 41

The Dred Scott decision led to the Missouri Compromise being declared unconstitutional

Answer 41

True

Question 42

In the election of 1860, Abe Lincoln ran as a Republican and John C. Breckinridge ran as a Southern Democrat

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Douglas believed that the issue of slavery should be decided by the settlers in their territories while Lincoln exposed all expansion of slavery.

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Many Northerners who weren’t abolitionists opposed the fugitive slave law, because they thought the lack of safeguards would result in free blacks remaining free.

Answer 44

False

Question 45

Many 49ers travels all around South Africa to get to California

Answer 45

False

Question 46

One of Lincoln’s three main purposes in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was to encourage blacks to join the Union war effort

Answer 46

True

Question 47

One of two reasons that the Union wanted to control Mississippi River was to split the Confederacy

Answer 47

True

Question 48

The clash between the “Monitor” and the “Merrimac” was a significant event in the U.S. naval history

Answer 48

True

Question 49

Winfield Scott’s plan to win war was called the “Anaconda Plan”

Answer 49

True

Question 50

Confederates successfully followed-up on their victory at the First Battle of Manassas

Answer 50

False

Question 51

Joseph Stalin was the communist dictator of Italy during WWII

Answer 51

False

Question 52

Benito Mussolini came to power in Spain by force in 1922

Answer 52

False

Question 53

Hideki Tojo led the defense of China from Japan during World War II

Answer 53

False

Question 54

Hitler declared that Germany had the right to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Answer 54

True

Question 55

Dunkirk was the sight of some “foggy, divine intervention” for the Allies

Answer 55

True

Question 56

Isolationist sentiment was one of the forces that pushed the U.S. into World War II

Answer 56

False

Question 57

Italy conquered Egypt in the 1930s

Answer 57

False (Ethiopia)

Question 58

After Japan seized French Indochina, FDR caved-in and removed the U.S. oil embargo on them

Answer 58

False

Question 59

The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s last gamble to win the war in Western Europe

Answer 59

True

Question 60

Okinawa was captured by American forces and served as a launching point for the assault on Japan

Answer 60

True

Question 61

Operation Torch took place in North Africa

Answer 61

True

Question 62

Several states set a “Victory Speed” of 35 mph during WWII to conserve gasoline

Answer 62

True

Question 63

Anschluss was the union of Germany and Austria

Answer 63

True

Question 64

Kyoto was the other Japanese city to be destroyed by s U.S. A-bomb

Answer 64

False