9-12 APUSH

The Articles of Confederation were finally approved when

all states claiming western lands surrendered them to the national government.

By their actions, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention manifested their common beliefs in all of the following except

manhood-suffrage democracy.

Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati

were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.

Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except

treaties with several Indian nations.

The Continental Congress in ____ called for the complete abolition of the slave trade, a summons to which most of the states responded positively.

1774

The federalists believe that the sovereignty of the people resided in which branch of the central government?

All of these choices are correct.

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) XYZ affair, (B) Neutrality Proclamation, (C) Jay's Treaty, and (D) Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

B, C, A, D

Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that

Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about women's roles after the Revolution?

Educated wives and women lost their status as cultivators of the virtues and moral education of their husbands, daughters, and sons.

Chief Justice John Marshall's ruling in ____ upheld the Constitution's protection of property rights against interference by a popular state law.

Fletcher v. Peck

Foreign relations between the United States and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over

French seizure of American merchant ships.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?

It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States.

The delegate whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution" was

James Madison

The United States' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feelings was

John Quincy Adams.

Antifederalists believe that the sovereignty of the people resided in which branch of the central government?

Legislative

Perhaps the key battle of the War of 1812, because it protected the United States from full-scale invasion and possible dissolution, was the Battle of

Plattsburgh.

All of the following were factors in the fight for the separation of church and state except

The disestablishment of the Congregational Church occurred throughout New England.

The struggle for divorce between religion and government, in the post-revolutionary period, proved fiercest in

Virginia.

The delegates of the Hartford Convention adopted resolutions in 1814 that included a call for

a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress before war could be declared, new states admitted, or a trade embargo instituted by the federal government.

The following elements helped cause the Panic of 1819 and exacerbate its adverse economic effects except

a devastating agricultural drought throughout the nation in 1818-1819.

Jay's Treaty contained all of the following provisions except

a promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians.

The aspect of Hamilton's financial program that received the least support in Congress, because of its heavy agricultural and commercial interests, was

a protective tariff.

President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he

accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.

As written documents, the state constitutions functioned in all of the following ways except

as contracts that defined the powers of government.

One of the West's persistent political demands was for

cheap money issued by unregulated banks.

Spain sold Florida in 1819 to the United States because it

could not defend the area and would lose it in any case.

The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to

enforce a tax-collection program.

The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation of Indian nations resulted in all of the following except

fair and reasonable financial compensation to the Miamis in exchange for an iron-clad promise from the U.S. government to restrict further westward expansion along the Old Northwest frontier.

Shays's Rebellion was provoked by

foreclosures on the mortgages of debt-strapped backcountry farmers.

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.

Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following except

his ambivalent positions on the critical political, economic, and foreign policy issues of the day.

Despite Thomas Jefferson winning a majority of the popular vote and a majority of votes in the Electoral College during the election of 1800, a deadlock in the Electoral College led the election to being decided You Answered

in the House of Representatives.

One of George Washington's most significant contributions as president was

keeping the nation out of foreign wars.

During the War of 1812, the New England states

lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army

All of the following are true statements about the status of blacks during the Revolutionary era except

many states passed laws that permitted blacks to marry and own land.

The War of 1812 was notable in the history of American warfare because

of the nation's apathy and national disunity.

Among other views, The Federalist, written during the ratification debate, argued that it was

possible to extend a republican form of government over a large territory.

In order to enhance the diplomatic leverage of the negotiations being conducted by American envoys James Monroe and Robert Livingston with Napoleonic France concerning obtaining American shipping access to the port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, President Jefferson

proposed to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain, against Napoleonic France.

As president, President Jefferson showed unexpected moderation and a conciliatory attitude toward his Federalist political opponent by

refusing to repeal the federal excise tax enacted by the Federalists.

As a means of ensuring that legislators stay in touch with the mood of the people, state constitutions

required the annual election of legislators.

The Founders had not envisioned the existence of permanent political parties because they

saw them as a sign of disloyalty and lack of national unity.

All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that

sectionalism was significantly reduced.

Britain made neutrality very difficult for the United States during the French and British conflicts of the 1790s by

seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies.

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to

send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.

Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except

small shopkeepers

The delegates at the Constitutional Convention stipulated that the new Constitution be ratified by

state conventions.

Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except

support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States.

By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from

the West and South.

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

the West and South.

The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on

the candidates' personalities.

On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

the excise tax on whiskey.

The War of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in American history for all of the following reasons except that

the militia was never called up to supplement the regular army.

In the election campaign of 1796, the Democratic-Republicans made their primary issue

the terms of Jay's Treaty and the crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion.

The fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention shared all of the following qualities except

they were liberal

Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt

was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success.

The Era of Good Feelings

was characterized by the absence of any serious or divisive problems in the United States.

The formal Franco-American political and military defense alliance of 1778

was weakened significantly by the issuance of President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793.