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A.   argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.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

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