Chapter 8 Quiz U.S. History
(Q036) Which three nations claimed Oregon Country in the early 1800s?
England, Spain, and the United States
(Q046) No one was ever convicted under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.
False
(Q047) The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions condemned state laws against seditious speech.
False
(Q052) The "Revolution of 1800" pitted the French against the newly incorporated American military.
False
(Q005) Which statement is true regarding the Republican Party under Madison and Jefferson?
The party had more faith in a democratic form of self-government.
(Q012) "Impressment" as practiced by the British was
kidnapping sailors.
(Q032) Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 failed because
rains washed out the rebel's path of travel.
(Q033) According to the text, Gabriel's rebellion demonstrates that
slaves wanted to be free.
(Q028) The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to
take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.
(Q055) The newly created Bank of the United States was originally a branch of the government under the suggestion of Alexander Hamilton.
False
(Q058) Mary Wollstonecraft's work called for greater access to education and paid employment for women while also fervently challenging traditional gender roles in America.
False
(Q059) Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.
False
(Q061) The British were the main targets of the Sedition Act.
False
(Q067) After Washington's unanimous reelection in 1792, he wanted to run for president once more, but Congress had barred him from obtaining a third term.
False
(Q034) The slave revolt in St. Domingue led to the creation in 1804 of what nation?
Haiti
(Q024) The case that established judicial review was
Marbury v. Madison.
(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper chronological sequence?
Paine's The Rights of Man; Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Gabriel's Rebellion
(Q019) Which of the following statements accurately reflects Fries's Rebellion of 1799?
President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.
(Q013) The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the
Republicans and Federalists.
(Q026) On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter
Sacajawea.
(Q020) The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, written respectively by Madison and Jefferson, attacked what federal law?
Sedition Act
(Q043) Jefferson's embargo on U.S. exports proved an economic disaster for American port towns.
True
(Q051) In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.
True
(Q056) The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World.
True
(Q060) The Constitution makes no mention of political parties.
True
(Q070) Slave women residing in the area later known as the Louisiana Purchase had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners.
True
(Q006) The Hartford Convention
affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.
(Q030) "The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Frances Scott Key, commemorates what event in the War of 1812?
the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor
(Q014) The only time in American history that the president has personally commanded an army in the field was during
the Whiskey Rebellion.
(Q009) George Washington was elected the first president of the United States
unanimously by all sixty-nine electors.