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The chapter introduction tells the story of General John Neville's efforts to enforce the federal Whiskey Tax in the frontier district of Western Pennsylvania to make the point that |
| | A) | since the time of the Revolution, Americans refused to recognize that any government had the legitimate power to tax them. |
| | B) | Americans living in the West would not tolerate the inequalities of wealth and status that Neville represented. |
| | C) | differences between Americans living in semisubsistence and commercial economies would frustrate efforts of the new government to unite the nation. |
| | D) | Federalists, like Neville, trampled on the individual liberty of frontier farmers for the purpose of enriching themselves. |
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Each of the following was true about American society in 1790 EXCEPT that |
| | A) | the free black population made up a larger percentage of the African American population than it would at any other time before the Civil War. |
| | B) | almost half of white Americans were under 16 years old. |
| | C) | almost no whites lived in the area north of the Ohio River, in part because of the Indians of the Miami Confederacy. |
| | D) | the white population was doubling every 22 years, mostly because of the enormous influx of immigrants. |
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A family's work in a semisubsistence economy |
| | A) | remained predominantly the responsibility of the men of the family. |
| | B) | included the making of such articles as soap, candles, and clothing. |
| | C) | isolated the family from the rest of the community. |
| | D) | included trade based primarily on cash purchases from local merchants. |
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A fundamental division between two kinds of Americans helps explain how they felt about the Constitution and what party they identified with. This division was between |
| | A) | semisubsistence farmers, and those tied to a commercial economy. |
| | B) | mainstream religious groups, and those professing dissenting faiths. |
| | C) | northern and southern states and territories. |
| | D) | eastern states and western territories. |
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Which of the following does NOT accurately complete the statement? The first political parties arose |
| | A) | despite the fundamental hostility to the idea of parties among political leaders. |
| | B) | because of opposition to Hamilton's programs. |
| | C) | in an atmosphere where each party thought the other was out to subvert the republic. |
| | D) | after John Adams became president. |
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How did foreign policy issues accelerate the emergence of domestic political parties? |
| | A) | The French intruded with money and advice to set up a friendly faction within the United States government. |
| | B) | Divided over whether or not to continue to support the French Revolution, Federalists and Republicans came to suspect the worst intentions of the other, and organized against each other. |
| | C) | Pinckney's Treaty so blatantly met the interests of the commercial areas against the interests of the semisubsistence sector that the leaders of agrarian America rallied around the treaty fight and founded a party. |
| | D) | With both sides violating American neutral rights, the party that exploited American anger and fought for American rights was able to win the election of 1800. |
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Jefferson's Republican Party |
| | A) | appealed to workers in cities and others tied to the commercial economy. |
| | B) | sought to overturn the federal system and restore a unitary central government. |
| | C) | appealed to fears of commerce and urbanization. |
| | D) | articulated a conceptual framework that understood both the party in power and the loyal opposition as legitimate. |
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The Sedition Act forced Republicans to develop a broader conception of |
| | A) | the power of the federal government. |
| | B) | freedom of religion. |
| | C) | freedom of assembly. |
| | D) | freedom of the press. |
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In its years in power, the Federalist party |
| | A) | promoted the geographic expansion of the U.S. |
| | B) | promoted democracy by appealing to the people. |
| | C) | made the Constitution work to achieve national power and stability. |
| | D) | was responsible for the breakdown of national unity and the rise of special interests. |
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According to the doctrine established in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, |
| | A) | the high court could rule on the constitutionality of federal laws. |
| | B) | the high court could compel public officials to perform their duties. |
| | C) | the executive branch must defer to the rulings of the legislative branch. |
| | D) | the judicial branch should defer to the wishes of the legislative branch. |
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Which of the following does NOT accurately state a principle that Jefferson espoused? |
| | A) | People may be trusted to make political choices based on correct principles. |
| | B) | Radical change is periodically necessary to make sure that equality and democracy continue to be extended to all men and women of all races and faiths. |
| | C) | Human reason is the powerful tool that will unlock the secrets of nature and improve human society. |
| | D) | The life of the independent farmer in a free market is an economically preferable and morally superior social condition. |
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The Louisiana Purchase was significant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that |
| | A) | Jefferson's pragmatism caused him to overlook his doubts about the constitutionality of the purchase. |
| | B) | it illustrated Jefferson's enthusiastic interest in the West. |
| | C) | it rekindled the American alliance with France. |
| | D) | it secured western access to the sea. |
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What larger social pattern helps explain the clashes between whites and Indians and, more specifically, their resort to both religious renewal movements and abusive consumption of increased quantities of alcohol? |
| | A) | Neither tribal villages nor backcountry villages felt any cultural or economic need for the other. |
| | B) | Traditional cultural systems were breaking down, creating great cultural stress. |
| | C) | Birth rates in both groups were rising sharply, imposing great pressures on the land. |
| | D) | Both groups had abandoned their religious roots and rejected calls to return to traditional beliefs. |
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What is NOT true about the Second Great Awakening? |
| | A) | It featured a new style of moralistic preaching known as strict construction. |
| | B) | Its effects were felt by women as well as men, and by blacks as well as whites. |
| | C) | Its effects were felt both in the settled East and on the frontier. |
| | D) | The most effective organizational technique on the frontier was the Methodist system of circuit riders. |
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The American declaration of war against Britain in 1812 occurred because |
| | A) | Americans were outraged by the violation of neutral rights. |
| | B) | representatives from coastal regions demanded retribution for the loss of American ships. |
| | C) | many members of Congress felt the British continued to view Americans as colonials and that the nation's independence hung in the balance. |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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During the War of 1812, |
| | A) | Andrew Jackson became a national hero with his victory at the Battle of New Orleans. |
| | B) | the Americans launched a successful invasion of Canada. |
| | C) | Tecumseh saw his great chance to win American favor by allying with the United States against the British. |
| | D) | the British failed in their attacks against Washington D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans. |
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The Jeffersonian era demonstrates a great irony, in that |
| | A) | a party that rose as an opposition movement won the support of most Americans because of its foreign policies. |
| | B) | Jefferson's policies opened the West with a view to creating an "empire of liberty" based primarily on agriculture, but settlement would take place under the leadership of nationalistic and commercially-oriented Republicans who faced very different problems and challenges. |
| | C) | Jefferson and Madison, whose "great collaboration" had undergirded much of the early history of the American republic, came to disagree fundamentally over how that republic should be governed. |
| | D) | The Jeffersonian vision of a decentralized republic of independent farmers was undermined and eventually buried by Jefferson's exercise of vigorous national leadership and the consequences of "Mr. Madison's War." |
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The Monroe Doctrine |
| | A) | proclaimed that the U.S. would be a continental nation. |
| | B) | warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas. |
| | C) | guaranteed the independence of Spain's former colonies. |
| | D) | laid claims to the Oregon Country. |
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The Missouri crisis |
| | A) | erupted over rival fur trappers' activities along the upper Missouri River. |
| | B) | was the first great sectional crisis in American history. |
| | C) | was ended by the panic of 1819. |
| | D) | led to the abolition of slavery in the territories. |
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