Chapter 7 Quiz

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

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

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

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

E  was reluctantly negotiated by the British.

A  resulted in hundreds of American deaths.

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

C  gave the British control of the Mississippi River.

D  took place weeks after the war had officially ended.

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

A  assumed the French would not honor its terms.

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

C  was unsure of his constitutional authority to accept it.

D  insisted on numerous revisions before accepting it.

E  angrily fired Livingston and Monroe for insubordination.

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

B  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.

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

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

E  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.

A  eliminated all internal taxes.

B  restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.

C  sought to create a tax on personal income.

D  drastically increased government spending.

E  saw a doubling of the national debt.

A  developed the nation’s first merchant marine.

B  made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.

C  invented the steam engine.

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

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

A  encouraged racial unrest.

B  pacified opponents of slavery.

C  was largely limited to white Americans.

D  fostered an anti-egalitarian religious ethos.

E  was rejected by the black American community.

A  argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.

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

C  emphasized the role of God in the world.

D  All these answers are correct.

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

A  who might become civilized through exposure to white culture.

B  who nevertheless had an education system worth emulating.

C  who had been greatly mistreated by white Americans.

D  who should be completely separated from white society.

E  with no redemptive qualities.

A  private schools as the primary institutions of learning.

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

C  the federal government paying the costs of primary schools.

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

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