Benchmark II

What was President Washington advising the U.S. and its leaders do?

• To avoid getting involved in foreign affairs
• To establish a monarchy
• To declare war on Britain
• To form an alliance with France

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The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) and the resulting Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798) directly resulted in the

• victory by Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800.

• creation of the Bill of Rights by James Madison.

• start of the Civil War over these issues.

• signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Which President was responsible for signing the legislation shown?

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Andrew Jackson

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One important goal of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was to

• declare war against Great Britain.

• promote trade with European countries.

• prevent further European colonization in the Americas.

• encourage European interference in American affairs.

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One result of the War of 1812 was that the United States

• gained new territories north in modern-day Canada.

• lost its independence as a result of Washington D.C. being burned.

• established its military dominance over the newly-independent Mexico.

• remained independent and formed a true, national identity.

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In deciding to purchase the Louisiana Territory, President Thomas Jefferson

• expanded the power of the presidency.

• declared war on France.

• abolished slavery west of the Mississippi River.

• established the Second Bank of the United States.

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• The purpose of Henry Clay’s American System depicted in the map above was to

• promote economic development with improved infrastructure.

• abolition of slavery in all states east of the Mississippi River.

• promote the expansion of the United States to the West.

• end the Second Bank of the United States.

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The Great Awakening of the 1830s, shown in the painting above, had a dramatic impact on the United States.  These evangelical revivals helped create a unifying moral order and new sense of spiritual community which in turn inspired

• Christians to create reform movements in the United States.

• the establishment of the Federal Reserve.

• the creation of the National Park Service.

• the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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One reason the decision in Scott v. Sanford (1857) was so controversial was that it

• ruled that Congress had no power to limit slavery in the territories.

• established the principle of judicial review.

• declared the National Bank unconstitutional.

• supported Harriet Beecher Stowe's point of view in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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In 1832 the Second Great Awakening, publication of William Lloyd's "The Liberator," and Nat Turner's slave rebellion resulted in

• the rise in the significance of slavery in American politics.

• the start of the Civil War.

• the end of slavery in the southern states.

• the establishment of the Underground Railroad.

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