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D.   argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.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

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