Chapter 7 Quiz

A  was reluctantly negotiated by the British.

B  put huge areas of the new lands under the control of the United States.

C  included the condition that the United States create an Indian buffer state in the Northwest.

D  was signed on New Year’s Day, 1815.

E  began an improvement in relations between England and the United States.

A  saw the British lay siege to the city for nearly a month.

B  saw inexperienced British troops face battle-hardened American forces.

C  took place weeks after the war had officially ended.

D  resulted in hundreds of American deaths.

E  gave the British control of the Mississippi River.

A  angrily fired Livingston and Monroe for insubordination.

B  assumed the French would not honor its terms.

C  felt his government had been asked to pay too much for it.

D  was unsure of his constitutional authority to accept it.

E  insisted on numerous revisions before accepting it.

A  stated that the Supreme Court had the power to nullify an act of Congress, and ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.

B  stated that Congress had the authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court.

C  ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.

D  stated that Congress had no authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court, and that the Supreme Court had the power to nullify an act of Congress.

E  stated that the states had the power to nullify an act of Congress with the support of the Court.

A  saw a doubling of the national debt.

B  eliminated all internal taxes.

C  restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.

D  sought to create a tax on personal income.

E  drastically increased government spending.

A  invented the steam engine.

B  brought the first steam engines from England to the United States.

C  launched America’s first railroad engine, the Clermont, in 1807.

D  made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.

E  developed the nation’s first merchant marine.

A  encouraged racial unrest.

B  was largely limited to white Americans.

C  was rejected by the black American community.

D  pacified opponents of slavery.

E  fostered an anti-egalitarian religious ethos.

A  emphasized the role of God in the world.

B  argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.

C  was frowned upon by educated Americans such as Jefferson and Franklin.

D  All these answers are correct.

E  challenged many of the ideas that had emerged in the Enlightenment.

A  who nevertheless had an education system worth emulating.

B  with no redemptive qualities.

C  who had been greatly mistreated by white Americans.

D  who should be completely separated from white society.

E  who might become civilized through exposure to white culture.

A  the federal government paying the costs of primary schools.

B  private schools as the primary institutions of learning.

C  free college education for all white male citizens of the republic.

D  the practice that only the children of elite families received an education.

E  a nationwide system of free public schools for all male citizens.