Deck 7: Creating a Nation

Question 1

State war debts at the start of Washington's presidency totaled

A) over 21 million.
B) less than 10 million.
C) over 100 million.
D) more than 50 million.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In 1791 Congress made a new tax law known as the

A) Cigarette Tax.
B) Whiskey Tax.
C) Corn Tax.
D) Rice Tax.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The majority of free blacks lived and worked in

A) ships.
B) towns.
C) hospitals.
D) plantations.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In the early 1800s, slaves were imported into Georgia and

A) South Carolina.
B) Virginia.
C) Maryland.
D) New York.

Question 5

In February 1792, Congress approved the ______ bill.

A) bank
B) farm
C) factory
D) reservation

Question 6

Iroquois in New York dealt with missionaries known as

A) witch doctors.
B) Quakers.
C) Eastern Orthodox monks.
D) the Sultan of Brunei.

Question 7

Which of the following nations closed the Mississippi River to U.S. shipping?

A) France
B) Britain
C) Germany
D) Spain

Question 8

In which of the following port cities was nearly half the population black in 1820?

A) New Orleans.
B) San Francisco.
C) Columbia.
D) Knoxville.

Question 9

Native Americans ceded land for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) to trade goods.
B) annuity payments.
C) the promise that no more lands would be desired by whites.
D) the desire of Indian tribes for African American slavery.

Question 10

Which of the following men was NOT an early subscriber to the Federalist philosophy?

A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) James Madison

Question 11

Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury was

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin.
C) Alexander Hamilton.
D) James Madison.

Question 12

Washington's first Secretary of War was

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin.
C) Henry Knox.
D) James Madison.

Question 13

By the 1820s, how many African Americans lived in eastern port cities?

A) 50,000
B) 40,000
C) 30,000
D) 20,000
E) 10,000

Question 14

The Indian Intercourse Act of 1790 dealt with

A) federal treaties and Indian land.
B) marriage rights on tribal land.
C) religious ceremonies in cities.
D) water rights for immigrant people.

Question 15

The Federalist's early policies were intended to

A) support western expansion.
B) develop the economy.
C) strengthen the government.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 16

Economic policy under President Washington was largely carried out by

A) George Mason.
B) Thomas Jefferson.
C) John Jay.
D) Alexander Hamilton.

Question 17

The Cherokee, in particular, embraced

A) assimilation.
B) Christianity.
C) traditional life ways.
D) return to warfare.

Question 18

The activities of Iroquois leader Handsome Lake

A) encouraged the tribe to return to the war path.
B) led to reclaimed western lands.
C) offered his people renewed pride.
D) led the tribe to cede most of their lands to the United States.

Question 19

Which of the following tribes held African American slaves?

A) Wyandotte
B) Chippewa
C) Delaware
D) Cherokee

Question 20

During the immediate postwar years, Native Americans

A) saw themselves as rival members of independent nations.
B) became equal partners in western settlement.
C) refused to see themselves as conquered peoples.
D) never ceded land in exchange for goods.

Question 21

Describe the XYZ affair.

Question 22

Analyze the impact of the Haitian Revolution on slavery and relations with the United States.

Question 23

By the 1820s, Philadelphia was becoming a center of ______ production.

A) slavery
B) tobacco
C) textile
D) lumber

Question 24

From 1790 to 1820, the U.S. population increased by _______ percent.

A) 50
B) 60
C) 73
D) 84

Question 25

By 1800, the average size of American farms was _______ acres.

A) 500-1,000
B) 300-400
C) 200-300
D) 100-150

Question 26

Streets in early American cities

A) were swept clean daily by city workers.
B) remained untouched by humans and animals.
C) were filthy and maintained by swine.
D) were nonexistent.

Question 27

The cotton gin was invented by

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Eli Whitney.
C) Richard Allen.
D) Henry Knox.

Question 28

Indians who assimilated more than most included the

A) Sioux.
B) Cherokee.
C) Navajo.
D) Hopi.

Question 29

Free black women in early American cities worked as

A) domestics.
B) dock workers.
C) farm hands.
D) nurses.

Question 30

New Orleans was originally a colony of the

A) French.
B) Spanish.
C) British.
D) Dutch.

Question 31

Early American cities bred diseases such as

A) AIDS and Swine flu.
B) dysentery and typhoid.
C) smallpox and rubella.
D) gangrene.

Question 32

The colony of Louisiana became part of the United States in the year

A) 1763.
B) 1783.
C) 1803.
D) 1833.

Question 33

In 1794, the United States won a decisive battle against Native Americans at the Battle of

A) Handsome Lake.
B) Running Waters.
C) Fallen Timbers.
D) Ocean Shore.

Question 34

By 1820, the population of New York numbered over _______ people.

A) 50,000
B) 75,000
C) 100,000
D) 200,000

Question 35

In the 1780s, a Native American leader who resisted white expansion was

A) Captain Jack.
B) Little Turtle.
C) Geronimo.
D) Sacajawea.

Question 36

Explain the controversy surrounding the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Question 37

Early American cities witnessed most Americans ________ to work.

A) walking
B) riding horses
C) riding in wagons
D) taking public trains

Question 38

In 1808, the Cherokee adopted a legal code combining Indian and

A) Spanish law.
B) British law.
C) U.S. law.
D) French.

Question 39

In the early 1800s, one of the most important southern exports was

A) bananas.
B) coal.
C) cotton.
D) porcelain.

Question 40

By 1800, much of southern agriculture was

A) rapidly expanding.
B) in disarray.
C) farmed by free blacks.
D) burned over by fire.

Question 41

What were the main components of Jefferson's western strategy?

Question 42

What is significant regarding the "Revolution of 1800"?

Question 43

Analyze the role of blacks during the War of 1812 and the impact of the conflict on African American people.

Question 44

How did Native Americans respond to U.S. western expansion?