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History 270 Q4
quiz 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. George Washington narrowly beat John Adams in the first presidential election | False |
| 2. As the nation's first president, George Washington wanted his inauguration to be full of impressive ceremony, modeled after the dignity of British rule | False |
| 3. The constitution spelled out the number of Cabinet posts in the executive branch and the responsibility of each federal department | False |
| 4. As head of the State Department in the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson personally examined applications for federal patents | True |
| 5. The Federal Judiciary Act gave the Supreme Court the power to overrule any state law that conflicted with the Constitution, federal laws, or US treaties | True |
| 6. The majority of delegates to the first US congress saw the passage of a Bill of Rights as their most pressing duty | False |
| 7. Despite the discomfort of slaveholders, the first article of the Bill of Rights stated that all men were created equal and possessed certain unailienable rights | True |
| 8. The Constitution explicity stated that the US would not be responsible for repaying to foreign nations old debts that had been contracted during the Revolutionary years. | False |
| 9. In order to ensure the fiscal soundness of the nation's monetary system, Thomas Jefferson wanted the US to charter a national bank, but Alexander Hamilton insisted that such a proposal was unconstitutional | False |
| 11. The rich agricultural land, stong transportation links, and substantial urban population already located in the are to be known as Washington, DC, made it a natural choice to become America's capital. | False |
| 12. During the 1780s, Boston's population grew and its economy thrived, thanks to the post-Revolution expansion of the trade with the British West Indies. | False |
| 13. The 1790s were years of significant population growth for East Coast cities including Philadelphia, NY, Baltimore, and Boston | True |
| 14. By the early 1800s, the South had become a virtually one-crop agricultural export economy | True |
| 15. Reveling in their new political freedom, Americans of 1790 had created two opposing political parties, which eagerly courted people's votes and made elections into a national game. | True |
| 16. "Republican" politicians of the 1790s modeled themselves after the 1770s Revolutionary movement, resisting the tendency toward a dangerous abuse of power by the federal government | True |
| 19. the Sedition Act threatened imprisonment for anyone who wrote, spoke, or published ill-intentioned criticism of the president or the US government | True |
| 21. Between 1790 and 1800, the US population increased by almost 20 percent, and subsequently almost doulbed by 1850 | False |
| 22. By 1860, NY's population had passed 1 million | True |
| 23. Despite rapid urban expansion, three-quarters of all Americans were rural residents in 1800 | True |
| 24. President Adams had invested substantial sums in improving inland roads during the late 1790s and began building a national system of canals to carry goods between east and west | False |
| 25. The Louisiana Purchase brought the US land stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, from Canada to Texas (but excluding the port of NO). | False |
| 26. Thomas Jefferson approved plans for the Louisiana Purchase despite admitting that a strict interpretation of the Constitution made no provision for acquiring new territory | True |
| 27. The Lewis and Clark expedition went as far west as Yellowstone, but harsh winter weather and a shortage of supplies prevented them from making it to the Pacific | False |
| 28. In the early 1800s, extremists in NY and NE talked about seceding from the US to form a separate northern nation | True |
| 29. The Embargo Act of 1807 prohibited the import of certain products from Britain, but did not restrict export of American goods to either Britain or France | False |
| 30. in his eagerness to crack down on smugglers evading the Embargo Act, Jefferson stretched Constitutional rights and violated the Republican principle that a chief executive's power should be limited | True |
| 31. the Embargo Act of 1807 caused an American economic crisis that crushed the era's entrepreneurs; in particular, textile manufacturing collapsed | False |
| 32. As suggested in the "report on roads and canals" the federal government in 1808 began directly funding large-scale infrastructure development; the National Road connecting Baltimore to St. Louis was completed in 3 years | False |
| 33. blocking the rush of white settlers into Indiana, President Jefferson insisted in 1800 that the US honor its treaty obligations to protect Native American tribal land against further encroachment | False |
| 34. In order to resist white expansionism and reestablish Indian control over some ceded land, the Native American leader Tecumseh attemted to form a tribal confederacy in the early 1800s | True |
| 35. in 1812, resentment of British belligerence led northern congressmean Henry Clay and other NE "War Hawks" to call for a declaration of war; southern politicians mostly opposed such a drastic step | False |
| 36. to thank Lower Creek Indian allies who had joined whites in defeating the militant Red Sticks in 1814, the US gave the Creeks rights to a permanent settlement in Alabama | False |
| 37. Francis Scott Key composed "the Star-Spangled Banner" in 1814 while watching British forces shelling Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina | False |
| 38. Andrew Jackson defeated British forces at the Battle of NO in Jan 1815, two weeks after the peace treaty of Ghent had been signed | True |
| 39. In the early 1800s, many small manufacturing ventures in rural areas along the East Coast adopted steam engines for power, but industry in larger cities and the Ohio Valley primarily continued to rely on water power | False |
| 40. the trade embargo of 1807 sent Southern agriculture into an economic downturn that lasted for more than two decades; the problems and expense of keeping slaves drove many planters out of the cotton business | False |
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