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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A put huge areas of the new lands under the control of the United States.
B included the condition that the United States create an Indian buffer state in the Northwest.
C was signed on New Year’s Day, 1815.
D was reluctantly negotiated by the British.
E began an improvement in relations between England and the United States.
Question #2
A resulted in hundreds of American deaths.
B saw the British lay siege to the city for nearly a month.
C took place weeks after the war had officially ended.
D gave the British control of the Mississippi River.
E saw inexperienced British troops face battle-hardened American forces.
Question #3
A felt his government had been asked to pay too much for it.
B assumed the French would not honor its terms.
C angrily fired Livingston and Monroe for insubordination.
D insisted on numerous revisions before accepting it.
E was unsure of his constitutional authority to accept it.
Question #4
A ordered Secretary of State Madison to deliver Marbury his commission.
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 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.
D stated that Congress had the authority to expand the power of the Supreme Court.
E stated that the states had the power to nullify an act of Congress with the support of the Court.
Question #5
A eliminated all internal taxes.
B sought to create a tax on personal income.
C drastically increased government spending.
D restricted the sale of government lands to western settlers.
E saw a doubling of the national debt.
Question #6
A developed the nation’s first merchant marine.
B invented the steam engine.
C launched America’s first railroad engine, the Clermont, in 1807.
D brought the first steam engines from England to the United States.
E made significant advances in steam-powered navigation.
Question #7
A encouraged racial unrest.
B fostered an anti-egalitarian religious ethos.
C was rejected by the black American community.
D pacified opponents of slavery.
E was largely limited to white Americans.
Question #8
A challenged many of the ideas that had emerged in the Enlightenment.
B emphasized the role of God in the world.
C All these answers are correct.
D argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.
E was frowned upon by educated Americans such as Jefferson and Franklin.
Question #9
A who nevertheless had an education system worth emulating.
B who should be completely separated from white society.
C who might become civilized through exposure to white culture.
D who had been greatly mistreated by white Americans.
E with no redemptive qualities.
Question #10
A private schools as the primary institutions of learning.
B the federal government paying the costs of primary schools.
C free college education for all white male citizens of the republic.
D a nationwide system of free public schools for all male citizens.
E the practice that only the children of elite families received an education.