Apush testThe financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT

What battle during the War of 1812 actually took place after the war was technically over?

Battle of New Orleans

The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

It disrupted American shipping.

Which statement is true of the United States Constitution?

The Constitution's checks and balances helped establish a stable government.

The Supreme Court established which of the following by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison ?

The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts.

What was the primary intention of the Adams administration in enforcing the Sedition Act?

To intimidate critics of Adams' foreign policy toward France and England

Which treaty ended the War of 1812 with neither side really gaining or losing anything?

Treaty of Ghent

Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to...

acquire a port to provide an outlet for western crops

"The Anti-Federalists charged that the authors of the Constitution had failed to put up strong enough barriers to block this inevitably corrupting and tyrannical force. They painted a very black picture indeed of what the national representatives might and probably would do with the unchecked power conferred upon them under the provisions of the new Constitution.... But [the Anti-Federalists] lacked both the faith and the vision to extend their principles nationwide." -----------------------------------------Cecelia M. Kenyon, historian, "Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government," 1955 During the constitutional ratification process, Anti-Federalists' concerns, as described in the excerpt, were most directly addressed by an agreement to...

adopt the Bill of Rights

Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had NO power to...

levy taxes

The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT

nullification of all private debts to the states

The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of...

only a unicameral legislature

The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to...

organizing the Northwest territory and providing a path to statehood

The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his...

previous support for a strict interpretation of the Constitution

The "Three-Fifths Compromise" originally contained in the Constitution referred to the...

rate at which one slave counted toward congressional representation

Shays' Rebellion is significant because it...

strengthened the movement for a new constitution

Which plan in the Constitutional Convention called for a bicameral legislature where a state's population would determine the number of representatives?

the Virginia Plan

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions took the position that...

the authority of state governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional

The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting "another revolution" because...

the party in power (Federalists) stepped down after losing the election

After the Revolution, the concept of the "republican mother" suggested that...

women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their sons, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic

Of the following, which was the principal issue on which the United States sought settlement with Great Britain at the outset of the War of 1812?

An end to impressment

"Thus, fellow citizens, have I pointed out what I thought necessary to be amended in our Federal Constitution. I beg you to call to mind our glorious Declaration of Independence, read it, and compare it with the Federal Constitution; what a degree of apostasy (the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief) will you not then discover. Therefore, guard against all encroachments upon your liberties so dearly purchased with the costly expense of blood and treasure." ---------------------------------------------A Georgian, Gazette of the State of Georgia, November 15, 1787 The opinion expressed in the excerpt would most likely have been held by which of the following?

an Anti-Federalist

The Federalist papers were written in order to...

attain ratification of the Constitution