US History S2 Final 1 of 3

1. Question: how did the invention of the steam engine contribute to the advancement of transportation?

• Factories built airplanes

• Steam driven trains and boats could move resources, manufactured goods and people, faster and easier.

• Steam driven cars allowed poor people to get to work farther from their homes.

• Steam engines did not contribute to the market Economy.

Answer explanation

Market revolution: national in scope, but with important regional variations. Not just more economic activity, but a new market orientation Detaches people from local markets, and connects them to distant commercial mark For millennia, almost all human power came from our muscles, then we harnessed some animal power, and eventually wind and water power, but steam power completely revolutionized how much work could be done on behalf of humans, and also of course changed transportation too.

2. All of the following were major changes brought about by the Market Revolution EXCEPT:

• People moving from farms to factories

• Electricity in people’s homes

• Movement of homes in the country to home in the city

• Easier communication and transportation

Answer explanation

Which of these does not happen until after the Civil War?

3. According to Alexander Hamilton, the creation of a _________ would provide a place to deposit taxes, to provide a sound currency, and to make loans to the national government.

• National Bank

•  Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch.

• Executive branch

Answer explanation

Hamilton knew that a national bank would be the heartbeat of a free enterprise capitalist system, it would be where savers of and users of capital would come together, it would be of primary importance to the government, it would be a ready source of loans, it would be a place where they could deposit money. And imperatively, what he really cared about was the credit of the United States. Alexander Hamilton became secretary of the treasury on September 11th, 1789 with a strong vision of where the nation should go, and he produced several monumental state papers of which the Bank Report is just one of four.

4. Who Believed in promoting manufacturing and industry for the US economy?

• Hamilton

• Jefferson

Answer explanation

Which one of these guys thought we should be a nation of gentleman farmers?

5. President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from what French Emperor?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Chales de Gaul

• Andre the Giant

• Joan of Arc

6. 1803 US Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison created judicial Review which is:

• the Supreme Court's right to declare a law unconstitutional

• the right to vote

• the right to pout until you get what you want

• the ability to regulate trade between countries

7. Who did President Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana territory?

• James Madison

• John Smith

• Flav o Flav

• Lewis and Clark

8. The expedition accomplished President Jefferson's goals by:

• Removing Native peoples from the Southeast

• Making California a state

• Mapping the territory for future settlement

• Convincing France to sell the Louisiana territory

9. What are causes of the War of 1812?

• British supporting Native American resistance against the U.S , Impressment of Sailors and British interference of U.S. Maritime Trade.

• Interference with US shipping and French embargo

• Impressment of sailors and Treaty of Ghent

• Increase manufacturing and British supporting US citizens.

Answer explanation

The War of 1812 pitted the young United States in a war against Great Britain, from whom the American colonies had won their independence in 1783. The conflict was a byproduct of the broader conflict between Great Britain and France over who would dominate Europe and the wider world.

10. During the war of 1812, who were the War Hawks?

• Men from the Northeast who want to go to war

• Men from the South and West who want to go to war and expand U.S. territory.

• Women who fought in the War of 1812

• Men from the South and North who do NOT want to go to war