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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.   the federal government paying the costs of primary schools.
C.   private schools as the primary institutions of learning.
D.   a nationwide system of free public schools for all male citizens.
E.   free college education for all white male citizens of the republic.
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 should be completely separated from white society.
D.   with no redemptive qualities.
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A.   argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.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.   emphasized the role of God in the world.
C.   All these answers are correct.
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.   fostered an anti-egalitarian religious ethos.
C.   was rejected by the black American community.
D.   encouraged racial unrest.
E.   pacified opponents of slavery.
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.   invented the steam engine.
C.   developed the nation’s first merchant marine.
D.   made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.
E.   brought the first steam engines from England to the United States.
Question #6
During his first term, President Thomas Jefferson
A.   saw a doubling of the national debt.
B.   restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.
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 Supreme Court had the power to nullify an act of Congress, and ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.
B.   stated that the states had the power to nullify an act of Congress with the support of the Court.
C.   ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.
D.   stated that Congress had the authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court.
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.   angrily fired Livingston and Monroe for insubordination.
B.   assumed the French would not honor its terms.
C.   felt his government had been asked to pay too much for it.
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.   took place weeks after the war had officially ended.
C.   resulted in hundreds of American deaths.
D.   saw the British lay siege to the city for nearly a month.
E.   saw inexperienced British troops face battle-hardened American forces.
Question #10
The Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812
A.   was reluctantly negotiated by the British.
B.   included the condition that the United States create an Indian buffer state in the Northwest.
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.   began an improvement in relations between England and the United States.

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