3.4 A Changing Nation Practice Quiz

What was most significant about the Louisiana Purchase?

• It greatly increased the size of the United States.

• It gave Napoleon funds he needed to wage war.

• It put the port of New Orleans under American control.

• It greatly increased the new nation’s access to natural resources.

What reason did Jefferson give for urging passage of the Embargo Act?

• to protect American traders

• to avoid war over seized ships

• to increase the power of the Republican Party

• to decrease the power and influence of New England merchants

What reason did Jefferson give for the Louisiana Purchase being constitutional?

• He argued that the Constitution allowed the President to make treaties and the Louisiana

  Purchase was part of a treaty.

• He claimed that the “necessary and proper” clause in the Constitution gave the President

  the power to buy land.

• He declared the purchase was in the best interest of the American people.

• He reasoned that the Constitution did not specifically forbid the President from buying land.

Which river played an important role in the expeditions of Lewis and Clark?

• the Ohio River

• the Colorado River

• the Missouri River

• the Arkansas River

What most infuriated Americans about the way that British ships interfered with American trading ships?

• impressment

• ignoring neutrality

• loss of profits from trade

• scorn for American power

What is an expedition?

• a ban on trade

•  long voyage of exploration

• the act of importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws

•  the practice of forcing people into military service

What is the continental divide?

• he practice of forcing people into military service

• a ban on trade

• the act of importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws

• a ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

What is impressment?

• the practice of forcing people into military service

• a long voyage of exploration

• a ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

• a ban on trade

What is embargo?

• the practice of forcing people into military service

• the act of importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws

• a ban on trade

• a ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

What is smuggling?

• a ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

• the practice of forcing people into military service

• the act of importing or exporting goods in violation of trade laws

• a ban on trade