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Unit Assessment Q3

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the result of the War of 1812?

a)

American patriotism declined

b)

The Indian Removal Act

c)

The United States gained respect in the world

d)

The United States doubled in size

2.

Stephen Decatur became a hero for______?

a)

burning one of Tripoli's ships

b)

burning a captured ship so the pirates could not use it

c)

attacking a British ship that tried to seize the Philadelphia

d)

escaping from a Tripoli jail

3.

Who was Sacagawea?

a)

a Shoshone guide for Lewis and Clark

b)

William Clark's enslaved person

c)

a Native American leader that the Lewis and Clark expedition met

d)

one of the members of Zebulon Pike's second expedition

4.

Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" after watching bombs bursting over ____ in September 1814.

a)

a fallen fort in Lake Erie

b)

Washington, D.C.

c)

Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor

d)

Plattsburgh, on Lake Champlain

5.

According to the Twelfth Amendment, to prevent a tie between a presidential and vice-presidential candidate, the electors?

a)

cast one vote for president and one for vice president

b)

choose the president and the Senate chooses the vice president

c)

appoint the person with the most popular votes president

d)

no longer choose the president

6.

The secretary of the treasury was?

a)

James Madison

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Jay

7.

What caused the Whiskey Rebellion?

a)

The government prevented the sale of whiskey

b)

Pennsylvania farmers were upset about a tax on whiskey

c)

The government used force to seize a whiskey business

d)

American settlers brought whiskey into Ohio

8.

What was the result of the Missouri Compromise?

a)

The Spanish gave up control of Florida

b)

Kentucky was admitted as a free state

c)

The size of the nation was doubled

d)

Missouri was admitted as a slave state

9.

Who was known as "The Great Compromiser"?

a)

James Madison

b)

Henry Clay

c)

James Monroe

d)

Daniel Webster

10.

The "Five Civilized Tribes" consisted of the?

a)

Cherokee, Creek, Osage, Seminole, and Kiowa

b)

Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Seminole, and Creek

c)

Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole

d)

Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Kiowa, and Cherokee

11.

The Trail of Tears went from Georgia and Florida to ____.

a)

present-day Texas

b)

Mississippi

c)

Mexico

d)

present-day Oklahoma

12.

What did the Monroe Doctrine declare?

a)

Europe could not colonize any more of the Americas

b)

Internal improvements to the country should be made

c)

The federal government had ultimate power over the states

d)

The United States would not get involved in foreign affairs

13.

Strong loyalty to a nation is called?

a)

capitalism

b)

sectionalism

c)

nationalism

d)

Americanism

14.

Settlers in the West wanted the Bank of the United States to?

a)

give its money to state banks

b)

make it easier for them to get loans

c)

support Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828

d)

buy their land and pay them in gold

15.

The ____ had a separate nation within the state of Georgia?

a)

Choctaw

b)

Cherokee

c)

Seminole

d)

Creek

16.

What was the case of Worcester v. Georgia about?

a)

a dispute between Georgia and the town of Worcester

b)

a dispute over federal government tariffs

c)

a Supreme Court decision about Native American rights

d)

a Supreme Court decision about the statehood of Georgia

17.

Why was New Orleans important to settlers in the West?

a)

without it, they had no way to ship their goods

b)

they passed through the city on their way up the Mississippi River

c)

they made money from taxes collected in the city

d)

it was the capital of the new territory

18.

What is one way Jefferson lowered the national debt?

a)

cutting military spending

b)

refusing a salary

c)

lowering the number of people in Congress

d)

raising taxes

19.

Like George Washington, many Americans considered political parties?

a)

unavoidable

b)

necessary

c)

illegal

d)

harmful

20.

Which treaty resulted from Spanish fears that the United States and Great Britain would work against them in North America?

a)

Pinckney's Treaty

b)

Treaty of Greenville

c)

Jay's Treaty

d)

Treaty of the Northwest Territory

21.

What resulted from the closing of the Bank of the United States?

a)

a new national bank

b)

fewer state banks

c)

a new tax on banks

d)

the Panic of 1837

22.

Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States because he had given up his plan of a western empire and needed money for war.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Alexander Hamilton died in a duel against Aaron Full

a)

True

b)

False

24.

France lost control of Mexico and most of South America during this period

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The tariff dispute brought the different parts of the country together

a)

True

b)

False