Question 39 (1 point)What did Americans consider the most important benefit of the Louisiana

Purchase?

Question 39 options:

	It ensured an essential marketplace for western farmers.
	It provided essential raw materials.
	It allowed friendly Native Americans to become part of the United States.
	It provided access to many more bison.
	It provided land for railroads.

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Question 40 (1 point)

Why can a case be made for the War of 1812 actually starting in 1811?

Question 40 options:

	News traveled slowly due to limited technology.
	The British took control of forts in the Midwest.
	Tecumseh, a Native American chief, had been killed in 1811.
	The British blockaded the American coastline.
	William Henry Harrison attacked Native American villages in 1811.

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Question 41 (1 point)

Even though the Treaty of Ghent did not resolve the impressment issue, what helped to slow down this British policy?

Question 41 options:

	Various Native American tribes were defeated west of the Appalachian Mountains.
	France’s defeat by the British ended the war in Europe.
	The United States gave up claims to Canada.
	American sailors lacked the skills to serve on British warships.
	Andrew Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans.

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Question 42 (1 point)

When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation’s success depended on:

Question 42 options:

	creating political parties as a means of channeling the people’s passions.
	maintaining political harmony.
	protecting all forms of freedom.
	Washington’s willingness to serve until he died.
	coining money.

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Question 43 (1 point)

Which of the following was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton’s financial program?

Question 43 options:

	creating a new national debt, thereby giving bondholders a stake in the nation’s future
	the Bank of the United States, modeled on the Bank of England
	a tax on whiskey producers as a means of raising revenue
	taxes and subsidies to promote American manufacturing
	a national capital city with experimental manufacturing

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Question 44 (1 point)

Pierre Charles L’Enfant is well known for:

Question 44 options:

	leading a slave rebellion in Saint Domingue.
	designing Washington, D.C.
	masterminding the XYZ affair.
	negotiating the Louisiana Purchase.
	writing Letters from an American Farmer.

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Question 45 (1 point)

Benjamin Banneker was:

Question 45 options:

	a scientist who helped survey the new national capital.
	congressional leader of the opposition to Hamilton in the early 1790s.
	the secretary of war who publicly disagreed with Washington over Indian policy.
	an African-American slave whose capture inspired the Fugitive Slave Law.
	the first black person elected to Congress when he won election in the “Revolution of 1800.”

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Question 46 (1 point)

The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against:

Question 46 options:

	James Madison and John Marshall.
	Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
	Aaron Burr and John Jay.
	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
	Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

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Question 47 (1 point)

Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?

Question 47 options:

	Mathew Lyon
	Patrick Henry
	Sarah Morton
	Mary Wollstonecraft
	Benjamin Franklin

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Question 48 (1 point)

Gabriel’s Rebellion:

Question 48 options:

	was doomed to fail because the African-American population of Richmond was so small.
	demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else.
	inspired Virginia to adopt a gradual emancipation law in 1803.
	failed partly because its leaders were plantation slaves, who had less contact with the outside world and were unaware of how little support they enjoyed.
	prompted several states to pass laws requiring slaves to be educated about the Constitution and the importance of obeying the law.

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Question 49 (1 point)

What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?

Question 49 options:

	It was John Marshall’s first case as chief justice.
	The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review.
	The Supreme Court declared that presidential power was greater than congressional power.
	The decision gave states important new powers to block a too-powerful federal government.
	Marbury’s win meant that he became the new chief justice, a post he held for twenty-one years.

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Question 50 (1 point)

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase:

Question 50 options:

	had been claimed by France from the 1600s until the United States acquired it.
	included all of what is now Texas and the American Southwest.
	was considered by Jefferson to be practically worthless, yet he did not want it to fall into British hands.
	stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
	consisted only of what is today the state of Louisiana and the southern half of Arkansas.

 

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