10 USH Final Exam A

The Mississippian American Indian group was known for building towns with [blank].

Which option accurately completes the sentence?

• paved roads

• stone bridges

• plazas

• mounds

How did European contact impact indigenous peoples?

• American Indians adopted the democratic influences of the Enlightenment.

• Native tribes became ill from diseases that were not present until the arrival of Europeans.

• American Indians began to plot land for subsistence farming.

The (blank) was the first document of self-government in the New World.

Colonization of the American colonies by Europeans occurred for which reasons?

Select all that apply.

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• to seek a better way of life

• to wage war with native tribes

• to escape religious persecution

• to increase taxes on colonists

The Intolerable Acts angered colonists because it closed Boston Harbor and declared martial law in the colonies.

• True

• False

What were the contributing factors to the American Revolution?

Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies helped promote the development of US trade by [blank].

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    creating a system that promoted trade, absorbed the states’ accumulated war debt, and created a national bank

• promoting a shipping tax that led to an increase in the importation of foreign-produced spirits and a renewed sense of economic security

• proving that the national bank created under the Articles of Confederation was unconstitutional and promoting the rise of private banking

George Washington warned Americans that lack of political parties could potentially cause great division in the United States.

• True

• False

The case of Marbury v. Madison gave the Supreme Court which power?

• National Supremacy

• Judicial Review

• Constitutional Amendments

• Executive Privilege

Read the excerpt from Jefferson’s Inaugural Address.

“With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens—a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

Which identifies a presidential action taken by Jefferson that reflects his attempt to realize the goals expressed in the excerpt?

• creating a national prison system to incarcerate criminals

• improving social programs to feed the poor

• changing the tax system to reduce the size of government

• purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France 

  purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France  - no response given