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Question #1
Regarding education, early-nineteenth-century Republicans favored
A.   private schools as the primary institutions of learning.
B.   the federal government paying the costs of primary schools.
C.   free college education for all white male citizens of the republic.
D.   the practice that only the children of elite families received an education.
E.   a nationwide system of free public schools for all male citizens.
Question #2
Thomas Jefferson believed American Indians were primitive people
A.   who might become civilized through exposure to white culture.
B.   with no redemptive qualities.
C.   who nevertheless had an education system worth emulating.
D.   who should be completely separated from white society.
E.   who had been greatly mistreated by white Americans.
Question #3
The religious concept of deism
A.   All these answers are correct.
B.   emphasized the role of God in the world.
C.   argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.
D.   challenged many of the ideas that had emerged in the Enlightenment.
E.   was frowned upon by educated Americans such as Jefferson and Franklin.
Question #4
The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening
A.   was largely limited to white Americans.
B.   encouraged racial unrest.
C.   was rejected by the black American community.
D.   pacified opponents of slavery.
E.   fostered an anti-egalitarian religious ethos.
Question #5
In the early eighteenth century, the Americans Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston
A.   launched America’s first railroad engine, the Clermont, in 1807.
B.   brought the first steam engines from England to the United States.
C.   developed the nation’s first merchant marine.
D.   made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.
E.   invented the steam engine.
Question #6
During his first term, President Thomas Jefferson
A.   restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.
B.   saw a doubling of the national debt.
C.   eliminated all internal taxes.
D.   drastically increased government spending.
E.   sought to create a tax on personal income.
Question #7
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803)
A.   stated that the states had the power to nullify an act of Congress with the support of the Court.
B.   ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.
C.   stated that Congress had the authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court.
D.   stated that Congress had no authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court, and that the Supreme Court had the power to nullify an act of Congress.
E.   stated that the Supreme Court had the power to nullify an act of Congress, and ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.
Question #8
When Thomas Jefferson received the treaty for the Louisiana Purchase, he
A.   felt his government had been asked to pay too much for it.
B.   assumed the French would not honor its terms.
C.   angrily fired Livingston and Monroe for insubordination.
D.   was unsure of his constitutional authority to accept it.
E.   insisted on numerous revisions before accepting it.
Question #9
In the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans
A.   gave the British control of the Mississippi River.
B.   saw the British lay siege to the city for nearly a month.
C.   saw inexperienced British troops face battle-hardened American forces.
D.   took place weeks after the war had officially ended.
E.   resulted in hundreds of American deaths.
Question #10
The Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812
A.   was reluctantly negotiated by the British.
B.   began an improvement in relations between England and the United States.
C.   was signed on New Year’s Day, 1815.
D.   included the condition that the United States create an Indian buffer state in the Northwest.
E.   put huge areas of the new lands under the control of the United States.

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