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Chapters 6-8

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Elected as U.S. President in 1789

a)

George Washington

b)

John Adams

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Alexander Hamilton

2.

Law that organized the judicial branch with a six-person Supreme Court with one chief justice and five associates

a)

Judiciary Act of 1789

b)

Tariff of 1789

c)

Law of Judicial Review

d)

Excise Law of 1789

3.

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

a)

Alexander Hamilton

b)

James Madison

c)

Daniel Shay

d)

John Jay

4.

Law that taxed the production or sale of liquor, sugar, snuff, and carriages.

a)

Tariff of Abomination

b)

Nullification Law

c)

Tariff of 1789

d)

Excise tax of 1791

5.

Event in 1794 that led 2,000 angry farmers to attack tax collectors and burn barns of people who gave away the locations of their stills

a)

Whiskey Rebellion

b)

Prohibition Rebellion

c)

Temperance Rebellion

d)

Debarment Rebellion

6.

The idea that the government should do only what the Constitution specifically states it can do

a)

Loose Construction

b)

Strict construction

7.

The idea that the government can take reasonable actions not outlined in the Constitution—as long as those actions are not specifically prohibited?

a)

Loose Construction

b)

Strict construction

8.

Law that declared America a neutral nation and threatened legal action against any American who gave help to any country at war

a)

Impressment Act

b)

Neutrality Proclamation

c)

Nullification Law

d)

Sedition Acts

9.

Document in 1794 that forced British to pay for damages to American ships and leave their forts in the Northwest Territory.

a)

Pinckney’s Treaty

b)

XYZ Affair

c)

Jay’s Treaty

d)

Monroe Doctrine

10.

Document in 1795 that settled many border disputes between the United States and Spain

a)

Pinckney’s Treaty

b)

XYZ Affair

c)

Jay’s Treaty

d)

Monroe Doctrine

11.

The three laws that allowed the president to order that foreigners, who were considered a threat to national security, be jailed or deported

a)

Immigration Acts

b)

Subversion Acts

c)

Sedition Acts

d)

Alien Acts

12.

Outlawed any opposition to government policies by actions or by “false, scandalous, or malicious writing

a)

Immigration Acts

b)

Subversion Acts

c)

Sedition Acts

d)

Alien Acts

13.

Election that ended in a tie between Jefferson and Burr, where the House of Representatives chose Jefferson as next president.

a)

1796

b)

1800

c)

1804

d)

1808

14.

The amendment that requires electors to cast separate ballots for president and vice president.

a)

11th

b)

12th

c)

13th

d)

14th

15.

Agreement signed with France on April 30, 1803 to buy land for $15 million that almost doubled the territory of the United States.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Mason-Dixon Treaty

d)

Northwest Territory

16.

The forceful taking of American Soldiers by the British Navy

a)

Abduction

b)

Imprisonment

c)

Incarceration

d)

Impressment

17.

The belief that national interests should be more important than regional interests

a)

Nationalism

b)

Sectionalism

c)

Loyalism

d)

Patriotism

18.

Raised the price on imports to make domestic goods competitive and pay for internal improvements.

a)

Levy Tax of 1816

b)

Luxury Custom of 1816

c)

Tariff of 1816

d)

Import Tax of 1816

19.

Treaty between the United States and Great Britain limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812

a)

Adams-Onis Treaty

b)

Rush-Bagot Treaty

c)

Gibbons-Ogden Treaty

d)

Fletcher-Pack Treaty

20.

Land gained from the Adams-Onis Treaty

a)

Florida

b)

Oregon

c)

Utah

d)

Mississippi

21.

Prevented European nations from colonizing western land in the Americas, and guaranteed that the U.S. would stay out of European Affairs.

a)

Neutrality Creed

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Western Maxim

d)

Colonization Principle

22.

The territory admitted as a “free state” due to the Missouri Compromise

a)

Kansas

b)

Missouri

c)

Maine

d)

Kentucky

23.

Loyalty to a region rather than to the whole country

a)

Nationalism

b)

Sectionalism

c)

Loyalism

d)

Patriotism

24.

The Supreme Court held that Congress has implied powers derived from those listed in Article I, Section 8. The “Necessary and Proper” Clause gave Congress the power to establish a national bank

a)

Gibbons v. Ogden

b)

McCulloch v. Maryland

c)

Fletcher v. Peck

d)

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

25.

The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

a)

Lobby System

b)

Embargo System

c)

Spoils System

d)

Industrial System

26.

Called for the relocation of the five nations to an area west of the Mississippi River called Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma).

a)

Native Relocation

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Domestic Embargo

d)

Indian Removal Act

27.

Industrialization led to a new middle class in the

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

28.

Under contract with the government to make weapons production more efficient, Eli Whitney is also credited with developing _____ parts.

a)

Exchangeable

b)

Transposable

c)

Interchangeable

d)

Replaceable

29.

Invented the steamboat in 1807

a)

Robert Fulton

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Henry Ford

d)

John Rockefeller

30.

A Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the US, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, and sparked a number of reform movements.

a)

Religious Existence

b)

Great Awakening

c)

Religious Awakening

d)

Great Existence

31.

A social reform effort during the mid 1800s whose purpose was to reduce the use of alcoholic beverages

a)

Prohibition Movement

b)

Abolition Movement

c)

Transcendentalist Movement

d)

Temperance Movement

32.

Secretary of Education in MA that advocated for an Education Reform through an organized system of education, mandatory attendance, and teacher training

a)

Horace Mann

b)

William McGuffey

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Dorothea Dix

33.

Campaigned for humane treatment of both prisoners and the mentally ill

a)

Horace Mann

b)

William McGuffey

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Dorothea Dix

34.

Built to house mentally ill citizens separately from criminals

a)

Common house

b)

Institution

c)

Establishment

d)

Consortium

35.

Which movement led to the belief that knowledge is found by observation, reason, intuition and personal spiritual experiences?

a)

Prohibition Movement

b)

Abolition Movement

c)

Transcendentalist Movement

d)

Temperance Movement

36.

Reasons immigrants leave their home country

a)

Push Factors

b)

Export Factors

c)

Pull Factors

d)

Import Factors

37.

Reasons immigrants come to a new country

a)

Push Factors

b)

Export Factors

c)

Pull Factors

d)

Import Factors

38.

Fear, hostility, and opposition towards immigrants, increased

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Nativism

c)

Nationalism

39.

The movement toward making things in factories

a)

Industrialization

b)

Commercialization

c)

Factorization

d)

Equalization

40.

Women were pressured to remain in the home taking care of children and household tasks; books and magazines praised women who stayed at home and obeyed their husbands.

a)

Devotion of Domesticity

b)

Cult of Domiciliary

c)

Domestic Tranquility

d)

Cult of Domesticity

41.

Wanted immediate emancipation (not gradual); published the anti-slavery paper The Liberator

a)

Horace Mann

b)

William McGuffey

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Frederick Douglass

42.

Run-away slave who spoke against slavery; wrote an autobiography to answer critics who claimed he was too well educated and well spoken to have been a slavery

a)

Horace Mann

b)

William McGuffey

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Frederick Douglass