APUSH Chapter 7 Learning Curve

Which of the following states was admitted to the Union first?

a) Alabama b) Kentucky c) Ohio d) Illinois Answer: b) Kentucky

What statement assesses the Embargo Act of 1807?

a) An act of economic aggression, it plunged the United States into war against Britain. b) Imaginative but naïve, it hurt Americans more than anyone else. c) Moderately effective, it encouraged American domestic production and stimulated industrial development. d) A solid success, it hurt British trade and compelled the British to be more conciliatory. Answer: b) Imaginative but naïve, it hurt Americans more than anyone else.

What impact did the Battle of New Orleans have on the United States?

a) Discrediting General Andrew Jackson b) Undercutting the Hartford Convention c) Leading to a humiliating American defeat d) Lowering national morale Answer: b) Undercutting the Hartford Convention

What immediately resulted from the signing of the Treaty of Greenville?

a) Formation of the confederacy led by Little Turtle b) White migration to Ohio c) Indian attacks on white settlement d) Capitulation of the Iroquois in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix b) White migration to Ohio

Why did Alexander Hamilton advocate a declaration of war against France in 1800?

a) France had authorized privateering against American ships, which tried to obey international maritime law. b) It would have boosted patriotism in the country and ensured the Federalists' reelection that year. c) It would have annulled the nation's debt owed to France from the Revolutionary War. d) France had cut off trade with the United States in 1799. Answer: b) It would have boosted patriotism in the country and ensured the Federalists' reelection that year.

The Rush-Bagot Treaty, negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1817, addressed which issue?

a) French settlement of Louisiana's Gulf Coast b) Ownership of Florida c) American and British naval forces in the Great Lakes d) Russian takeover of interior Alaska c) American and British naval forces in the Great Lakes

How did Handsome Lake's religious revivals differ from other Native American belief systems?

a) He forced Christians to convert to Native American beliefs. b) He barred the presence of Quaker missionaries. c) His revivals were dominated by Christian beliefs. d) He tried to combine Christian and Native American beliefs. Answer: d) He tried to combine Christian and Native American beliefs.

What did Alexander Hamilton want his financial program to accomplish?

a) He wanted to empower the central government by connecting its interests to those of the elite. b) He hoped his program would gain him recognition so he could succeed George Washington as president. c) He hoped the program would subvert the Constitution and revert to a government much like the British system. d) He hoped his program would broaden the powers of state governments. Answer: a) He wanted to empower the central government by connecting its interests to those of the elite.

Why did Native Americans object to the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War?

a) It placed the Indian peoples under the protection of the United States. b) It ended their alliances with the French. c) It called for assimilation of their tribes into American society. d) It gave their lands, without their consent, to the United States. Answer: d) It gave their lands, without their consent, to the United States.

Why did Britain impose a naval blockade on France in 1802?

a) It wanted to prevent an American diplomatic mission from reaching France and concluding the Louisiana Purchase. b) Britain sought to undermine French manufacturing competition. c) Britain was at war with France and wanted to starve it into submission. d) They wanted to prevent American military supplies from reaching France. Answer: c) Britain was at war with France and wanted to starve it into submission.

Which of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's proposals did Thomas Jefferson and James Madison object to on constitutional grounds?

a) Placing the permanent capital along the Potomac b) Creation of a national bank c) Assumption of state debts d) Creation of a revenue tariff Answer: b) Creation of a national bank

Which policy was consistent with Thomas Jefferson's vision for the nation's economic prosperity?

a) Revenue-producing tariffs b) Cheap land from the public domain c) Creation of the Bank of the United States d) A centralized national debt Answer: b) Cheap land from the public domain

How did the French Revolution affect the American economy?

a) The American economy was unaffected by events in Europe. b) French warships destroyed the American fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar, thus stifling exports. c) The United States embargoed all exports to France to protest the war. d) American merchants profited handsomely from the war that resulted from it. Answer: d) American merchants profited handsomely from the war that resulted from it.

Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, believed what to be an "evil of the first magnitude"?

a) The Bank of the United States b) The British Empire c) The national debt d) The Federalist Party Answer: c) The national debt

Which action devised by President Thomas Jefferson was an attempt to preserve American interests while avoiding war with Britain?

a) The Bank of the United States b) The Sedition Act c) The Kentucky Resolution d) The Embargo Act of 1807 Answer: d) The Embargo Act of 1807

Why did the first Congress of the United States have to pass the Judiciary Act of 1789?

a) The Constitution had mandated a federal court system but no Supreme Court. b) The Judiciary Act was needed to implement the Bill of Rights. c) The Constitution did not address the judiciary at all. d) The Constitution had mandated a Supreme Court but no national court system. Answer: d) The Constitution had mandated a Supreme Court but no national court system.

Where was support for the War of 1812 especially strong?

a) The Middle Atlantic states b) Among Federalists c) The South and West d) New England Answer: c) The South and West

Which document set forth a "states' rights" interpretation of the U.S. Constitution?

a) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions b) The Proclamation of Neutrality c) Hamilton's Report on Credit d) The Sedition Act of 1798 Answer: a) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

What stimulated the expansion of demand for American cotton in the late 1700s?

a) The huge influx of slave labor from Africa into the Old Southwest b) New scientific agricultural methods that promoted crop rotation c) Tariffs imposed on foreign goods d) The development of new machines for processing cotton Answer: d) The development of new machines for processing cotton

Why did the United States officially declare war on Great Britain in 1812?

a) The war hawks wanted more land in the West and Britain out of the way. b) The British had blockaded American ports, causing economic distress throughout the country. c) Americans felt that Great Britain did not respect them as an independent country. d) The British refused to alter their policy of ignoring American neutrality and continued the impressment of Americans. Answer: d) The British refused to alter their policy of ignoring American neutrality and continued the impressment of Americans.

Hamilton's multiple-part program to revive the finances of the United States involved the paying off of old government securities, the chartering of a national bank, and what action regarding state debts?

a) Their repudiation by the states b) Their discounting to 50 percent of face value c) Their prompt payment by the states d) Their assumption by the federal government Answer: d) Their assumption by the federal government

What is evidence of the greater power enjoyed by women among eastern woodland Native American societies?

a) They controlled the fur trade with European traders. b) Women dominated leadership positions. c) Women's controlled tribal decision making about hunting d) Land and cultivation rights were passed through the female line. Answer: d) Land and cultivation rights were passed through the female line.

Why did Thomas Jefferson object to Alexander Hamilton's fiscal programs?

a) They raised taxes too high. b) They encouraged the expansion of slavery. c) They went beyond a strict interpretation of the Constitution. d) They favored war veterans over speculators. Answer; c) They went beyond a strict interpretation of the Constitution

Why did the British burn Washington, D.C., in 1814?

a) They were retaliating for the burning of the Canadian capital of York. b) They were trying to eliminate military supplies stored there. c) They hoped to destroy the American government that way. d) This was part of British indiscriminate warfare. Answer: a) They were retaliating for the burning of the Canadian capital of York.

What does this engraving of an Indian log house tell us about Native American life in the early republic?

a) White Americans had reduced native people to a peasant-like existence. b) Native tribes found creative ways of preserving their traditional ways of life. c) Native tribes sometimes adopted European practices that made sense for them. d) Native Americans defiantly maintained their own separate culture. Answer: c) Native tribes sometimes adopted European practices that made sense for them.