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E.   argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.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

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