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AMH2010 U.S. HISTORY I QUIZ FOR WEEK EIGHT (CHAPTER 8): 41 POINTS
A) Desertion from the navy.
B) Conspiracy with the enemy.
C) Criticism of the central government.
D) Plot to steal western lands.
E)
A) Citizenship
for anyone born in the
B) Freedom of speech, press, and religion.
C) Right of trial by jury.
D) Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.
E) Due process of law.
A) Promote economic enterprise.
B) Redistribute personal wealth.
C) Provide for the public welfare.
D) Extend democratic privileges.
E) Establish territorial governments.
A) Tie the interests of the common people to the national government.
B) Reduce
the nation’s trade with, and thus dependence on,
C) Stabilize the government’s finances and establish its credit.
D) Secure
a commercial and diplomatic alliance with
E) Remove Indians in order to advance the development of the West.
A) Depreciate the value of government bonds.
B) Chiefly
benefit
C) Unduly reward the original investors.
D) Result in windfall profit for financial speculators.
E) Unfairly give funds to the poor and undeserving.
A) Increase the powers of state governments.
B) Strengthen the tie between wealth and national power.
C) Reduce the need for federal taxation.
D) Promote the development of agrarian interests.
E) Tie
the states more closely to
A) Special tax incentives.
B) Repayment of some debts.
C) Location of the future national capital.
D) Location of the proposed national bank.
E) The continuation of the international slave trade for 40 years.
A) Regulate
all commerce within the
B) Operate state as well as national banks.
C) Levy and collect taxes, tariffs, and export duties.
D) Enact laws necessary and proper for exercising specific powers.
E) Enact laws and establish institutions whenever it feels like it.
A) A strengthening of states rights.
B) More revolution.
C) Indefinite expansion of federal authority.
D) Too much interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
E) Too much power would be given to Congress.
A) Creation of a national bank.
B) Federal assumption of state debts.
C) Placement of an excise tax on whiskey.
D) Passage of protective tariffs.
E) Removal of Native Americans from their lands.
A) The tax made whiskey too expensive for them to purchase.
B) They wanted higher taxes on whiskey to promote sobriety.
C) Whiskey distilling became illegal.
D) They resented loss of control as a market economy disrupted traditional ways of life and eastern areas gained political strength.
E) They were drunk all of the time on whiskey.
A) Indication of an unjust policy needing change.
B) Test of the administration’s ability to govern.
C) Minor protest unworthy of government attention.
D) Serious threat to the public safety.
E) The work of foreign agitators.
A) Produced moderate constitutional reforms.
B) Gained
the support of conservatives throughout
C) Became increasingly radical and violent.
D) Made little impact on American politics.
E) Inspired
a revolution in
A) Required American intervention against the French Revolution.
B) Necessitated American aid to the French war efforts.
C) Allowed American trade with belligerent powers.
D) Had been dissolved when the French monarchy collapsed.
E) Required
the Americans to fight to protect
A) Social anarchy.
B) Republican liberty.
C) Administrative decay.
D) Arbitrary privilege.
E) Democratic egalitarianism.
A) Lacked American public support.
B) Refused to negotiate a commercial treaty.
C) Strictly adhered to the bounds of diplomatic protocol.
D) Urged Congress to reject the Neutrality Proclamation.
E) Tried to form an alliance with the Iroquois against the Americans.
A) Vacate western posts in the following year.
B) Pay for American slaves confiscated during the Revolution.
C) Open
the colonies in
D) Guard against impressments of American sailors.
E) Provide payment for the Americans impressed into the British navy.
A) Cede
B) Grant
free navigation of the
C) Sell
the
D) End Spanish attacks on American shipping.
E) Allow
A) Expansion of political democracy.
B) National Bank.
C) Constitution.
D) French Revolution.
E) Industrial development.
A)
B)
C) Secretary
of state and vice-president during
D) President and vice-president chosen by the electoral college in 1796.
E) Senator
for
A) Extend the residence requirements for citizenship.
B) Expel
any aliens deemed dangerous to the
C) Specify charges for the imprisonment of enemy aliens.
D) Close American ports to European immigrants.
E) Close
American borders to anyone from
A) Encourage the flow of European immigrants.
B) Safeguard civil liberties.
C) Smother political opposition.
D) Ensure the public safety.
E) Prevent the Democrats from winning political office.
A) Irish or French immigrants.
B) Federalist politicians.
C) Military deserters.
D) Printers and editors.
E) Elite plantation owners.
A) Spat in the face of a political opponent.
B) Caned a fellow congressman on the House floor.
C) Criticized President John Adams.
D) Plotted an anti-government insurrection.
E) Sought to enact legislation that would take away the rights of Republicans.
A) Indicated popular support for the Federalists’ program.
B) Proposed state nullification of unconstitutional laws.
C) Violated the Bill of Rights.
D) Obstructed enforcement of federal laws.
E) Sought
to amend the Constitution of the
A) Agitation
of war against
B) Promotion of political dissent.
C) Unconstitutional exercise of federal power.
D) Failure to maintain an adequate defense.
E) Preservation and protection of the Constitution.
A) John Adams.
B) Aaron Burr.
C) Alexander Hamilton.
D) James Madison.
E) George Washington.
A) The electoral college.
B) The Senate.
C) The House of Representatives.
D) The Congress.
E) The Supreme Court.
A) A
shipbuilder in
B) A
wealthy merchant in
C) A
commercial farmer in
D) An
Irish-Catholic immigrant in
E) A
manufacturer in
A) Strengthening the military.
B) Jailing all subversives.
C) Repudiating the national debt.
D) Reconciling political differences.
E) Strengthening
the
A) Reduce the number of federal courts and judges.
B) Establish the doctrine of judicial review.
C) Deny the Jeffersonians full control of the government.
D) Replace the principles of English common law.
E) Ensure that all Americans were treaty justly.
A) Secure the judiciary from political attack.
B) Remove several opposition judges from the bench.
C) Use the judiciary to counter democratic excesses.
D) Extend the powers of the federal judiciary.
E) Appoint liberal judges to the Supreme Court.
A) Necessary to defend our national safety.
B) Necessary for little more than delivering mail, dealing with Indians, and overseeing foreign policy.
C) The principal guarantor of property rights.
D) More closely attuned to the people’s needs.
E) Important in the economic development of the country.
A) Undercutting the Alien Acts by dismantling the inspection system.
B) Allowing the Sedition Act to lapse.
C) Collecting income taxes.
D) Abolishing unnecessary government positions.
E) Purchasing
A) Commercial growth.
B) Industrial development.
C) Rapid territorial expansion.
D) Economic concentration.
E) Political alliances.
A) Quality of human life would steadily improve with scientific advances.
B) Desire
to immigrate to
C) Members of the working class would rise up in revolution.
D) Human population would increase more rapidly than agricultural production.
E) Population would shrink because of the frequency of the nation’s wars.
A) A
recent black rebellion in
B) Renewed
threat of war with
C) Fear of American designs on the area.
D) A desire to keep the Spanish from gaining possession.
E) An inability to keep American settlers out of the territory.
A) Proved the feasibility of an overland route to the Pacific.
B) Failed to produce useful scientific information.
C) Carefully avoided contact and hostilities with Native Americans.
D) Discouraged further attempts at westward expansion.
E) Demonstrated the impossibility of crossing the continent.
A) Harm standing alliances with friendly nations.
B) Emphasize the importance of overseas commerce.
C) Increase governmental powers and thus restrict liberties.
D) Threaten
the nation’s historic dependency on
E) Threaten
the
A) English goods that could be produced domestically or acquired elsewhere.
B) Goods
from the French and Spanish
C) Grains
from
D) West Indian sugar.
E) All European goods.
A) Full blockade of the European coast by the British Navy.
B) Attempt
by Napoleon to close all commerce and communication with the
C) Attack
by the British warship on the American frigate
D) Economic
depression and domestic bitterness within the
E) War
with