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Questão 1

Questão
Why did Jefferson want Lewis to thoroughly explore the Missouri river system?
Responda
  • to provide for defense from European attackers
  • to set up religious mission stations
  • to identify transportation routes for trade
  • to search for sources of fresh water fish

Questão 2

Questão
Why was Jefferson interested in measurements related to the temperature and rainfall of the region?
Responda
  • in preparation for export economies such as cotton
  • to judge the suitability for family dwellings and factories
  • to author a fuller description of the climate of the Americas
  • for future settlement by individual family farmers

Questão 3

Questão
A Vice President, Hamilton's greatest political rival; famous for a duel that took Hamilton's life is [blank_start]Aaron Burr[blank_end].
Responda
  • Aaron Burr

Questão 4

Questão
A man who in 1793, invented the cotton gin is [blank_start]Eli Whitney[blank_end].
Responda
  • Eli Whitney

Questão 5

Questão
A Native American who experienced "rebirth" after years of alcoholism; he effectively preached a message of hope to the Iroquois, and ? is [blank_start]Handsome Lake[blank_end].
Responda
  • Handsome Lake

Questão 6

Questão
A leading Federalist, prominent Virginia lawyer, had been John Adams's Secretary of State, and was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is [blank_start]John Marshall[blank_end].
Responda
  • John Marshall

Questão 7

Questão
The author of a 1784 essay defending women's right to education is [blank_start]Judith Sargent Murray[blank_end].
Responda
  • Judith Sargent Murray

Questão 8

Questão
The belief of those who accept the existence of God but consider Him a remote being who, after creating the universe, withdrew from direct ? is [blank_start]Deism[blank_end].
Responda
  • Deism

Questão 9

Questão
A Kentucky site where, in the summer of 1801, a group of evangelical ministers presided over the nation's first "camp meeting" is [blank_start]Cane Ridge[blank_end].
Responda
  • Cane Ridge

Questão 10

Questão
The December 1814 meeting in Connecticut where Federalists from New England states met to discuss secession and their grievances is the [blank_start]Hartford Convention[blank_end].
Responda
  • Hartford Convention

Questão 11

Questão
A wave of spiritual revivalism that swept the nation beginning in 1801 is the [blank_start]Second Great Awakening[blank_end].
Responda
  • Second Great Awakening

Questão 12

Questão
A drastic measure enacted by President Jefferson that prohibited American ships from leaving American waters is called the [blank_start]The Embargo[blank_end].
Responda
  • The Embargo

Questão 13

Questão
The Connecticut schoolmaster, dictionary author, and lawyer who argued that American students should be educated as Patriots is [blank_start]Noah Webster[blank_end].
Responda
  • Noah Webster

Questão 14

Questão
The inventor who perfected the steamboat is [blank_start]Robert Fulton[blank_end].
Responda
  • Robert Fulton

Questão 15

Questão
Shawnee chief who succeeded the Prophet as a leader of his people after the Battle of Tippecanoe is [blank_start]Tecumseh[blank_end].
Responda
  • Tecumseh

Questão 16

Questão
A charismatic religious leader and orator who experienced a spiritual awakening in the process of recovering from alcoholism; his ? is called [blank_start]The Prophet (Tenskwatawa).[blank_end]
Responda
  • The Prophet (Tenskwatawa).

Questão 17

Questão
A New Yorker who won wide acclaim for his satirical histories and and his powerful fables, creating such vivid character as Ichabod Crane is [blank_start]Washington Irving[blank_end].
Responda
  • Washington Irving

Questão 18

Questão
Thomas Jefferson and his supporters succeeded in
Responda
  • creating a program for universal education.
  • reducing the role of religion in American life.
  • arranging the greatest single increase in the size of the United States in its history.
  • fulfilling their ideal of a simple agrarian society in the United States.
  • purchasing Louisiana from Spain.

Questão 19

Questão
In the Republican vision of America, education was essential because
Responda
  • schools were the best place to teach children to be good party members.
  • schools were where religious values were taught.
  • an ignorant electorate could not be trusted to preserve democracy.
  • women needed to be literate.
  • business leaders needed to be educated.

Questão 20

Questão
The work of Eli Whitney
Responda
  • improved transportation in the South.
  • led to the decline of slavery, for fewer workers were needed to process cotton.
  • spurred the industrial revolution in the American South.
  • made the South a major textile-producing region.
  • led to the expansion of the cotton culture and slavery.

Questão 21

Questão
During his administration, Thomas Jefferson
Responda
  • made peace with Aaron Burr.
  • used the Alien and Sedition Acts against the Federalists.
  • cut the national debt almost in half.
  • showed little interest in westward expansion.
  • doubled the national debt by purchasing Louisiana.

Questão 22

Questão
In the case of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court
Responda
  • denied Adams’ right to make “midnight judicial appointments.”
  • affirmed the Court's power to nullify an act of Congress.
  • confirmed the power of Congress to expand judicial authority.
  • upheld Adams’ right to make “midnight judicial appointments.”
  • ordered Madison to deliver Marbury’s commission.

Questão 23

Questão
The greatest accomplishment of Chief Justice John Marshall was that he
Responda
  • refused to expand the power of the judiciary.
  • prevented a Federalist revival in New England.
  • stopped the growth of Republican power.
  • made the judiciary a coequal branch of government.
  • prevented New England from seceding.

Questão 24

Questão
Jefferson had reservations about buying Louisiana because
Responda
  • he feared it would upset western Indian tribes.
  • he doubted his constitutional power to do so.
  • the Spanish claimed the territory as theirs.
  • he believed the asking price was too high.
  • New Orleans had few Americans living there.

Questão 25

Questão
Apart from the British, the real losers in the War of 1812 were the
Responda
  • Canadians.
  • the French on the European continent.
  • Indian tribes in the Southwest and the Great Lakes region.
  • Spanish in Florida and Mexico.
  • Republicans in the West.

Questão 26

Questão
In the early nineteenth century, industrialization in the United States was hampered by an inadequate transportation system.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

Questão
The Louisiana Territory was organized on the same general surveying pattern as the Northwest Territory.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 28

Questão
The Louisiana Territory was organized on the same general surveying pattern as the Northwest Territory.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

Questão
Why did women become so involved in the Second Great Awakening?
Responda
  • Why did women become so involved in the Second Great Awakening?
  • By encouraging women to lead prayer meetings and church services, it gave them new agency in colonial society.
  • It offered women new opportunities to participate in social and community life.
  • Its message of personal salvation appealed to women as more authentic than traditional practices.

Questão 30

Questão
Why did Napoleon offer the Louisiana Purchase to the United States?
Responda
  • He wished to establish a military alliance with the United States.
  • He sought to preempt British designs in North America.
  • He sought to weaken the Spanish, who also claimed the region.
  • He lacked the resources to create an American empire.

Questão 31

Questão
Early explorers’ accounts encouraged what type of popular perception of much of the Louisiana Territory?
Responda
  • as an impassable, heavily forested area
  • as a natural wonder, filled with potential
  • as an open frontier ripe for settlement
  • as an inhospitable, uncultivable desert

Questão 32

Questão
What territory did the Lewis and Clark expedition traverse in addition to the Louisiana Purchase?
Responda
  • the Mississippi Territory
  • Texas
  • Oregon Country
  • the Indiana Territory

Questão 33

Questão
What territory did the Pike expedition traverse in addition to the Louisiana Purchase?
Responda
  • Oregon Country
  • Texas
  • the Michigan Territory
  • the Mississippi Territory

Questão 34

Questão
The densest region of American population west of the Appalachian Mountains was adjacent to which river?
Responda
  • the Mississippi
  • the Missouri
  • the Rio Grande
  • the Ohio

Questão 35

Questão
Approximately how much territory did the Louisiana Purchase add to the existing United States?
Responda
  • It added only a small piece of mostly unusable territory.
  • It added about one-third.
  • It doubled the size.
  • It added about one-quarter.

Questão 36

Questão
Which American commander became a national hero after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans?
Responda
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Oliver Hazard Perry
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Henry Clay

Questão 37

Questão
Where did the United States have significant early military success in the war?
Responda
  • on the southeastern coast
  • in the backcountry of the Carolinas
  • on the Great Lakes
  • in New England

Questão 38

Questão
Jefferson advocated which of the following as the means to pay off the national debt?
Responda
  • borrowing more money from France
  • sale of Western lands and customs duties
  • charging a tax on new immigrants
  • internal taxes

Questão 39

Questão
Jefferson used which power of the Federal government as his authority to purchase the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon?
Responda
  • Jefferson used which power of the Federal government as his authority to purchase the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon?
  • the treaty-making power in the Constitution
  • Pinkney's Treaty
  • the Northwest Ordinance

Questão 40

Questão
Impressment was
Responda
  • forcing Native Americans to go to the Caribbean as slaves
  • the invention of the new steam-powered printing press
  • the British practice of forcing American sailors who had been born on British soil to join the British Navy
  • forcing Americans to house and feed British soldiers in their homes

Questão 41

Questão
Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Embargo under Jefferson?
Responda
  • it was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act, in which ships could now trade with all nations except Britain and France
  • was a treaty with France that guaranteed no interference with American shipping
  • it prohibited American ships from leaving the U.S. for any foreign port anywhere in the world
  • it created a nationwide serious economic depression

Questão 42

Questão
After Jefferson, who became the fourth President of the United States?
Responda
  • Andrew Jackson
  • John Marshall
  • William Henry Harrison
  • James Madison

Questão 43

Questão
The "Turnpike Era" includes which of the following accomplishments?
Responda
  • opening of western lands to public purchase
  • the construction of public buildings in Washington D.C.
  • Construction of the National Road, paved with crushed stone
  • the introduction of horse racing to America

Questão 44

Questão
Most people lived in towns and cities in America of 1800.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 45

Questão
The "War Hawks", who encouraged the War of 1812, were which of the following leaders?
Responda
  • Congressmen Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
  • James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
  • Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
  • Governor William Henry Harrison and Charles Pinkney

Questão 46

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the war of 1812?
Responda
  • the desire for Florida which was Spanish territory
  • expulsion of the British from the Great Lakes area, where they still held forts
  • the success of the Hartford Convention in New England
  • the need for access to the Gulf of Mexico

Questão 47

Questão
The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key as he observed the War of 1812 at
Responda
  • The Battle of Plattsburgh in upstate New York
  • The Battle of Put-In Bay on the Great Lakes
  • Baltimore, in the Chesapeake Bay
  • The Battle of New Orleans

Questão 48

Questão
The Battle of Tippecanoe was
Responda
  • a battle between British and American soldiers over a fort
  • a battle between the Indians and whites under leadership of William Henry Harrison
  • a battle between British and American forces in Florida
  • led by John C. Calhoun and captured territory in Canada from the British

Questão 49

Questão
The first President to reside in the White House in Washington D.C. was
Responda
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • George Washington
  • John Adams

Questão 50

Questão
The award for the wildest hairdo among leaders of the United States in the early 1800s was
Responda
  • Henry Clay
  • William Henry Harrison
  • John C. Calhoun
  • James Madison

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