Unit 5 - Level 2 Quiz

People who take extreme political positions?

• Corps

• Radicals

• Impressment

• Agrarian

Number of people acting together for a similar purpose?

• Corps

• Radical

• Impressment

• Agrarian

Because there was a tie in electoral votes in the election of 1800, which house of Congress decided the outcome?

Jefferson offered to buy what port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River from France?

• New Orleans

• Baltimore

• New York City

• Boston

What country sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.?

• France

• Britain

• Spain

• Tripoli

How did President Jefferson handle the disruption in trade caused by war between Britain and France?

• He passed the Embargo Act of 1787

• He declared war on Britain

• He formed an alliance with France

• He ordered the impressment of British sailors

Which one is a reason the U.S. declared war on Britain in 1812?

• Being forced to pay money to Britain to protect them from Barbary pirates

• Britain stopped allowing the U.S. to use New Orleans

• Britain supplied guns to the Indigenous people in the Northwest Territory

• Because Britain attacked Washington, DC

What was an effect of the Louisiana Purchase?

Because of who the U.S. was fighting and the reasons for the war, the War of 1812 is often compared to what other war?

• The American Revolutionary War

• The French and Indian War

• The Civil War

• The War with Tripoli

What was an effect of the War of 1812?