Deck 7: Forging a Nation, 1783-1800

Question 1

After the Iroquois confederacy repudiated the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix,

A) Congress formally recognized the Iroquois Confederacy as sovereign in the Northwest Territory.
B) Congress allowed the Creeks to retain their ancestral lands if they would ally with the United States against the Iroquois Confederacy.
C) New York State began to purchase large tracts of land from individual Iroquois nations, thus reducing the Confederacy by 1790 to a few scattered reservations.
D) Congress declared war on the Confederacy and confiscated all its lands.

Answer 1

New York State began to purchase large tracts of land from individual Iroquois nations, thus reducing the Confederacy by 1790 to a few scattered reservations.

Question 2

Which group was united in their opposition to the Constitution?

A) Antifederalists
B) Whigs
C) Republicans
D) Federalists

Answer 2

Antifederalists

Question 3

Which of the following represents George Washington's beliefs at the time of the Constitutional Convention?

A) The American government should be modeled after that of England.
B) The election of the president should be made by popular vote.
C) The formation of a two-house legislature was a mistake.
D) A strong national government was necessary.

Answer 3

A strong national government was necessary.

Question 4

Why did Americans adopt a theory of checks and balances?

A) Christians support the new theory.
B) Antifederalists supported the movement.
C) The system would allow the government to become tyrannical, which would allow for more decisiveness.
D) Americans realized that legislative supremacy did not guarantee good government.

Question 5

Of the questions raised at the Constitutional Convention about the establishment of a national legislature, which was the most difficult to resolve?

A) Should a limit be placed on the number of terms that members of the Senate may serve?
B) Should the states have proportional representation or equal representation in the Senate?
C) Should the government have a bicameral legislature?
D) Should a branch of the legislature be elected directly by the people?

Question 6

Which of the following was a feature of the Virginia Plan?

A) Acts passed by Congress would also have to be approved by three-fourths of the state legislatures before becoming the law of the land.
B) The state legislatures would become advisory bodies to a national Congress, thereby losing their power to enact laws.
C) Proportional representation would be provided in both houses of a two-house legislature.
D) An independent chief executive would be elected by direct vote of the people.

Question 7

Which of the following policies was established by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

A) Congress would establish and oversee the development of territorial governments in the West.
B) The validity of Indian land claims would be reviewed by an independent commission.
C) Residents of the western territories would have the same rights as citizens of the original states.
D) Homesteaders would be given free title to land they had settled and improved.

Question 8

Why did Spain close the Mississippi River to American navigation in 1784?

A) The United States had not agreed to honor its wartime debt to Spain.
B) Spain was determined to prevent the expansion of the United States.
C) Spain was attempting to pressure the United States into accepting boundary concessions in the area between the United States and Spanish Florida.
D) The United States had attempted to wrest Florida from Spain.

Question 9

What was the government's first independent source of revenue under the Articles of Confederation?

A) The sale of land.
B) The sale of British and Spanish ships captured during the Revolution.
C) Import duties.
D) Reparations from Great Britain.

Question 10

Under the Constitution of the United States, who has primary responsibility for the conduct of foreign affairs?

A) The president of the United States
B) The Senate of the United States
C) The secretary of state
D) The Speaker of the House of Representatives

Question 11

Which of the following was a feature of the New Jersey Plan?

A) Congress would have veto power over state laws.
B) A one-house congress would be retained, but it would be given new powers to tax and to regulate trade.
C) A chief executive officer having the power to conduct foreign policy and negotiate treaties would be elected by Congress.
D) A national judiciary having the power to determine the constitutionality of acts of Congress would be created.

Question 12

Which of the following was a characteristic of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

A) They were, for the most part, members of the economic elite.
B) They were, with only a few exceptions, advocates of state rather than national sovereignty.
C) Most had been delegates to the First Continental Congress.
D) Most were under the age of forty.

Question 13

Did James Madison consider the large size of the American republic to be an advantage? Why or why not?

A) No, because its size would prevent the people from having a direct voice in the decision-making process.
B) No, because so many diverse factions would emerge that civil war would be inevitable.
C) Yes, because there would be so many competing interest groups that no one group would be able to control the government.
D) Yes, because its size would make it practically impossible for the government to subjugate the people by armed force.

Question 14

Which of the following was a consequence of the inability of the Confederation Congress to enforce repayment of prewar debts to the British?

A) Parliament encouraged British privateers to harass American commercial ships.
B) Great Britain rescinded colonial fishing rights in the North Atlantic.
C) It gave the British an excuse to maintain military posts on the Great Lakes.
D) British merchants refused to sell manufactured goods to Americans.

Question 15

In "Vices of the Political System of the United States," James Madison argued

A) the central government must have a permanent standing army at its disposal so that it will be able to maintain order and defend the nation.
B) in order to overcome the flaws of the Confederation government, it is necessary to create a chief executive who is directly elected by the people.
C) the primary weakness of the Confederation government lies in the fact that the Congress is denied the power to tax.
D) the national government must be structured so as to prevent a single interest group from controlling it.

Question 16

How did the Constitutional Convention settle the question of slavery and population totals?

A) The slaves would not be counted at all.
B) One-fifth of the slaves would be counted in the population totals.
C) Two-fifths of the slaves would be counted in the population totals.
D) Three-fifths of the slaves would be counted in the population totals.

Question 17

How did the Confederation Congress respond to the flooding of the American market with British goods?

A) It imposed a high protective tariff on British imports in an effort to save American producers.
B) It could do nothing because it lacked the power to establish a national commercial policy.
C) It established quotas, stipulating that only a certain number of certain goods could be imported.
D) It imposed an embargo on all British products.

Question 18

The Land Ordinance of 1785 dealing with the Northwest Territory indicates that the Confederation Congress

A) was determined to make land available to small farmers.
B) believed that new states should gradually earn the rights and privileges afforded the original states.
C) believed that federal aid should be given to support public schools.
D) was determined to resolve all the claims of the Indian tribes before allowing white settlers into the region.

Question 19

What led to the calling of the Annapolis Conference?

A) The inability of the Confederation Congress to establish and implement a national trade policy
B) Problems with the Northwest Native Americans
C) Conflicting land claims among the states
D) The need to suppress popular uprisings in several states

Question 20

What did the leaders of Shays's Rebellion believe?

A) Strong central government is a necessity given the turbulence and unruliness of the uneducated masses.
B) In a republic, all adults twenty-one years of age and older should have the right to vote.
C) Landowners should share their profits with farm laborers because it is the laborers who make such profits possible.
D) If government becomes destructive of the rights of the people, the people have the right to overthrow that government.

Question 21

Which of the following is true of Alexander Hamilton?

A) He trusted the ability of common people to participate in government.
B) He believed that people were motivated primarily by economic self-interest.
C) Rather than viewing the American republic as one nation, he saw it as a collection of sovereign states loosely bound together by a contractual agreement.
D) His optimism about America's future was based on his belief that most people put the common good above their own personal desires.

Question 22

American architects in the early republic

A) rejected the architecture of Greece and Rome as decadent.
B) introduced innovative architectural styles in the design of public buildings.
C) tried to express the complexities of building a stable society by imitating the Gothic style.
D) tried to portray the ideals of the republic by favoring a simplicity of line and harmonious proportions.

Question 23

Which of the following is true of the First Congress?

A) It quickly approved a tariff, thereby providing revenue to the new government.
B) It decided that the sale of public land was the best means by which to raise revenue for the government.
C) A majority of its members advocated state sovereignty rather than a strong national government.
D) None of the members of the Constitutional Convention were included in its membership.

Question 24

Washington created the president's cabinet by

A) issuing an executive order.
B) consulting frequently with key congressional leaders.
C) using the heads of the executive departments collectively as his advisers.
D) requesting appropriate legislation from Congress.

Question 25

Which artist was charged with inspiring patriotism in his viewers?

A) John Trumbull
B) Charles Willson Peale
C) Gilbert Stuart
D) Samuel Adams

Question 26

Jefferson supported ratification of the Constitution, but he disliked which of the following about the document?

A) The two-term limitation on the president
B) The inclusion of the separation-of-powers concept
C) The system of checks and balances
D) The omission of a bill of rights

Question 27

Through his fiscal policies, Hamilton wanted to

A) shift the tax burden from the middle class to the upper class.
B) reduce the national debt by streamlining the government.
C) protect agrarian interests from organized business interests.
D) consolidate power at the national level.

Question 28

Congress's decision concerning who may dismiss heads of executive departments was significant because it established the principle that

A) such officials are responsible to the president.
B) officials who must be confirmed by the Senate serve at the pleasure of the president and the Senate.
C) Congress's impeachment powers would apply not only to the president but to all presidential appointees as well.
D) the branch of government closest to the people, the House of Representatives, would oversee such officials.

Question 29

Which of the following was true of the Supreme Court during its first decade?

A) The Court handed down no decisions.
B) The Court was the most influential branch of government.
C) The justices were bitterly divided over how to interpret the Constitution.
D) The Court handled few cases of any importance.

Question 30

Why were some people concerned about the founding of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1783?

A) Because it was a club for veterans of the American Revolution and their first born sons, some were afraid that it signaled the creation of a native-born aristocracy.
B) Because it was a gambling club, some were afraid it was a harbinger of moral corruption in the new American republic.
C) Because it was a social club for young people, some were afraid that it would become a den of depravity and sin.
D) Because it was an artists' club, some feared that its members would encourage the spread of European decadence.

Question 31

In Chisholm v. Georgia the Supreme Court ruled that

A) a citizen of one state has the right to bring suit against another state in federal court.
B) the First Amendment protects a person's actions when those actions are based on the person's religious beliefs.
C) it had the right and power to review any case arising under American law.
D) the truth is a complete defense against the charge of libel.

Question 32

Painters Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and John Trumbull are famous for their

A) dramatic landscapes of the American frontier in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution.
B) portraits of Abigail Adams, Benjamin Banneker, and Little Turtle.
C) artistic celebrations of upstanding citizens and of significant events associated with the American Revolution.
D) cityscapes of Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston in the years immediately after the Revolution.

Question 33

Which of the following statements is most consistent with Hamilton's concept of the ideal republican man?

A) Men should be free to pursue their own economic self-interest, for such a pursuit will bring advancement to the man and to his family.
B) Men should prepare themselves to be as skilled in the running of the household as they are in the running of a business.
C) Men should prepare themselves to care for, train, and nurture their children, for such preparation will produce children of strong moral character.
D) Men should concern themselves with the welfare of the community, putting the well-being of others ahead of their own.

Question 34

In the new American republic, which state allowed town elementary schools to be open to girls as well as boys?

A) Vermont
B) Massachusetts
C) Virginia
D) Maryland

Question 35

Which of the following is true of Life of Washington, published in 1800?

A) It was published only after the author agreed to delete revelations about Washington's affair with Sally Fairfax.
B) In his portrayal of Washington, the author intended to provide the young people of America with a virtuous role model.
C) It was written only after painstaking research by the author.
D) Its author was widely ridiculed because he portrayed Washington in a realistic manner.

Question 36

Which of the following is true of Letters of a Federal Farmer?

A) This Antifederalist pamphlet called on the American people to rebel if the Constitution were ratified.
B) This Antifederalist pamphlet included a list of rights that should be guaranteed to the people.
C) This Federalist pamphlet explained the limitations placed on the powers of Congress.
D) This Federalist pamphlet argued in favor of a centralized government.

Question 37

Section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 was important because it

A) allowed appeals from state courts to federal courts in cases that raised certain types of constitutional questions.
B) established circuit courts of appeal subordinate to the Supreme Court.
C) recognized that state courts could independently interpret the Constitution.
D) created a chief justice to preside over the Supreme Court.

Question 38

The Second Amendment says that the people shall have the right "to keep and bear arms" because of the

A) right of the people to obtain food by hunting.
B) need for protection against criminals.
C) right to fight tyranny.
D) need for a well-regulated militia.

Question 39

How did most Americans want the new government to handle the debts incurred by the nation in the winning of independence?

A) They believed the government should repudiate those debts.
B) They believed the domestic debt should be paid in full but the foreign debt repudiated.
C) They believed all such debts should be paid at face value.
D) They believed the foreign debt should be paid in full but the domestic debt repudiated.

Question 40

Ware v. Hylton established the authority of the Supreme Court to

A) rule on the constitutionality of acts of Congress.
B) hear suits brought by state governments against individuals.
C) rule on the constitutionality of state laws.
D) hear suits brought by individuals against state governments.

Question 41

Those citizens who protested imposition of the whiskey tax most vigorously were also very likely to be dissatisfied over the

A) Senate's ratification of the Pinckney Treaty.
B) religious ideas associated with the Second Great Awakening.
C) proliferation of Democratic societies.
D) inability of the army to defend them and their region from Indian attacks.

Question 42

What was the significance of Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?

A) His willingness to attend and answer questions at protest meetings demonstrated the government's tolerance of public criticism.
B) His sympathy and understanding toward the protesters conveyed the message that the government could be trusted to deal fairly with aggrieved groups.
C) His decisive action made it clear that the national government would not tolerate violent resistance to its laws.
D) His hesitation in the face of armed rebellion seriously undermined the people's confidence in their new government.

Question 43

Which of the following is true of Congress's response to Hamilton's Report on Manufactures?

A) Congress approved the report in its entirety.
B) Congress approved the report with the exception of the portion calling for a protective tariff.
C) Congress, seeing the future of the nation as being agrarian and not industrial, rejected the report.
D) Congress rejected the report with the exception of the portion calling for a protective tariff.

Question 44

Which of the following is true of the Democratic societies?

A) They protested the policies of the Washington administration and warned of self-serving rulers who would destroy the rights of the people.
B) They saw the French Revolution as a perversion of republicanism.
C) They attempted to bridge the gap between the views of Hamilton and those of Jefferson.
D) They urged Americans to ignore events in Europe and to concentrate on perfecting the republic.

Question 45

Hamilton's proposal concerning the assumption of state debts became law as a result of which of the following?

A) A political deal was struck by which the site for the nation's capital was to be on the Potomac River.
B) Having served under President Washington's command during the Revolutionary War, several opponents of the plan switched their votes out of a sense of duty.
C) President Washington met privately with Madison and Jefferson, and convinced them that their opposition to the proposal was divisive.
D) A joint Senate-House subcommittee agreed that those states that had paid their debts would be taxed at a lower rate than those whose debts were being assumed.

Question 46

For which of the following reasons did President Washington choose to seek a second term?

A) He was afraid that Hamilton would be elected president if he retired.
B) He wanted to oversee the military buildup that had begun during his first administration.
C) He wanted to continue to supervise the arms talks with England.
D) He was worn out by the dispute over the treaty and the growing political disunity.

Question 47

The Jay Treaty was significant in which of the following respects?

A) In persuading the House to appropriate the funds necessary to carry out the treaty's provisions, the Federalists violated one of their key principles by engaging in grassroots politicking.
B) The ratification process used by the Senate demonstrated its commitment to public discussion of key issues.
C) By granting America navigation rights on the Mississippi, it ensured the commercial development of the West.
D) By demilitarizing the Great Lakes, it allowed the diversion of funds from the military to economic development.

Question 48

How did Republican leaders justify their opposition to Alexander Hamilton and his policies?

A) They contended that republics were always characterized by debate engendered by the emergence of competing factions.
B) They argued that they wanted to save the republic from Hamilton's plot to subvert republican principles and impose a corrupt government on the United States.
C) They contended that because Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies, he was prohibited by the Constitution from serving as secretary of the treasury.
D) They argued that they were morally right and were bound to uphold God's law, not the laws put forward by a corrupt and adulterous man.

Question 49

For which of the following reasons did southern planters voice strenuous objections to ratification of the Jay Treaty?

A) The treaty contained no provision for British evacuation of their forts in the Northwest.
B) The treaty contained no provision to compensate owners of slaves who left with the British army at the end of the Revolutionary War.
C) The treaty contained no provision to deal with claims relating to American merchant ships captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.
D) The treaty contained no provision for easing restrictions on American trade to England or the West Indies.

Question 50

How did opponents of the Jay Treaty try to prevent it from taking effect?

A) They tried to stop action on all legislative business in the House by engaging in a filibuster.
B) They urged all senators and congressmen who opposed the treaty to engage in a boycott of legislative sessions.
C) They urged the president to invoke executive privilege.
D) They tried to defeat appropriations bills in the House that would provide funds necessary to carry out the treaty's provisions.

Question 51

Which of the following would be most likely to support the Federalists?

A) An urban artisan
B) A southern planter
C) A New England merchant
D) An American of Irish descent

Question 52

Why did Hamilton favor the assumption of state debts by the national government?

A) He recognized that many of the states did not have the economic ability to honor their unpaid debts.
B) He wanted to give the holders of public securities a financial stake in the survival of the national government.
C) He personally stood to make a substantial profit from the assumption plan.
D) He believed that patriots who had helped finance the Revolution deserved to be paid the money owed them.

Question 53

Western farmers were most directly affected by the excise tax on which item?

A) Wine
B) Milk
C) Tea
D) Whiskey

Question 54

Which of the following was true of Washington's Farewell Address?

A) Washington indicated his belief that Congress plays a secondary role to the president in the making of foreign policy.
B) Washington attempted to portray the Republican opposition as dangerous and misguided.
C) Washington attempted to undermine Alexander Hamilton's chance of succeeding him as president.
D) Washington indicated his belief that the United States should actively ally with Great Britain against the French menace.

Question 55

Washington believed which of the following to be behind the Whiskey Rebellion?

A) Catholic immigrants
B) The Society of the Cincinnati
C) Evangelicals associated with the Second Great Awakening
D) The Democratic societies

Question 56

Why did the war that began between France and Great Britain in 1793 pose a dilemma for the United States?

A) Each belligerent expected the active support of the United States and threatened to declare war if such support was not forthcoming.
B) The United States was ideologically bound to France, but it was economically bound to Great Britain.
C) The Senate voted to honor the 1778 treaty with France, but the House voted in favor of a declaration of neutrality.
D) Because the United States had a mutual defense pact with both countries, it had to choose which agreement to honor.

Question 57

Which of the following statements best expresses the criticism leveled against Hamilton's proposal that Congress assume outstanding state debts?

A) The plan is fine except for the fact that it will cost the government far more than it can afford.
B) The plan will enrich speculators who have purchased securities at a small fraction of their face value.
C) The plan will disrupt the national economy.
D) The plan violates the Constitution, which does not specifically authorize Congress to assume state debts.

Question 58

The argument over the creation of the Bank of the United States focused on which of the following questions?

A) Does the nation need a central banking institution?
B) Should the bank be allowed to issue the nation's currency?
C) Does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to create the bank?
D) Should the bank be privately owned, publicly owned, or privately and publicly owned?

Question 59

Which of the following was true of the Republicans?

A) They were pessimistic about the future of the nation.
B) They had little interest in westward expansion.
C) They were more concerned about developing the nation's resources than about its standing in the world.
D) They emphasized the need for order and stability.

Question 60

Why did the Democratic societies arouse the fear of President Washington?

A) Washington had not yet accepted the idea that an organized loyal opposition was part of a free government; therefore, he believed that political dissent was a sign of subversion.
B) Members of these societies threatened to engage in terrorist tactics to undermine the government and the Constitution.
C) Their pro-democracy demonstrations seemed to challenge the legitimacy and sovereignty of the United States government.
D) Washington was very disturbed by the fact that these groups called for a violent overthrow of the United States government.

Question 61

White southerners redefined the notion that "all men are created equal" and made it inapplicable to blacks. Which of the following statements is most consistent with their redefinition?

A) The notion applies only to those men who have received a formal education.
B) The notion applies only to those men who own property.
C) The notion applies only to those men who have never been held in bondage.
D) The notion applies only to those men who are fully human.

Question 62

Which of the following inspired Gabriel's Rebellion?

A) The emergence of an organized antislavery movement in the North
B) Antislavery statements by white ministers in the Richmond area
C) Antislavery statements by prominent Virginia politicians
D) Enslaved blacks' adaptation of the concepts of liberty and equality to their own purposes

Question 63

Which of the following was true of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions?

A) They advanced the theory that the people, speaking through their states, could judge the constitutionality of acts of Congress.
B) They caused divisive arguments within the Republican faction.
C) They were unnecessary because the federal courts were already considering the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
D) They were of little significance beyond their immediate propaganda benefits to Jefferson and Madison.

Question 64

As a result of the teachings of Handsome Lake, men of the Iroquois Confederacy

A) accepted the imposition of taxes in order to finance economic development and diversification.
B) accepted the tenets of capitalism by allowing the Confederacy to invest in New England textile mills.
C) became more receptive to the European-style sexual division of labor taught by the Quakers.
D) began to work toward the goal of complete assimilation into Anglo-American culture.

Question 65

Which of the following is true of most states in which the legislature abolished slavery in the early years of the nation?

A) They allowed individual slave owners to determine the timetable by which their slaves would be freed.
B) They provided compensation to the former masters of freed slaves.
C) They favored gradual emancipation.
D) They proclaimed slavery to be morally wrong.

Question 66

The extension of the right to vote to poor white men could have posed a threat to the power of the dominant elite. How did the elite reduce that threat?

A) They threatened to raise taxes if poor whites voted against them.
B) They made free land, or homesteads, available to poor whites in most states.
C) They attempted to create solidarity among whites by emphasizing racial divisions between blacks and whites.
D) They supported public education in the belief that an educated electorate would keep the "better sort" in power.

Question 67

The founding of the African Methodist Episcopal church supports which of the following ideas?

A) Free blacks often developed their own separate institutions during the early years of the American republic.
B) Blacks were more religious than whites in the early republic.
C) Whites imposed their religious ideas on blacks.
D) Whites and blacks worked together in the early republic to further the ideal of racial equality.

Question 68

Examine the domestic and diplomatic problems faced by the Confederation Congress and assess its handling of those problems.

Question 69

As a result of the Convention of 1800,

A) the United States was freed from its treaty of alliance with France.
B) the Federalist party was united as it prepared for the presidential election of 1800.
C) the United States received compensation from France for ships seized since 1793.
D) the Federalists chose Alexander Hamilton rather than John Adams as their presidential candidate for the 1800 election.

Question 70

Discuss the impact of revolutionary ideology on concepts pertaining to education in the new American republic. How did the educational reform movement of the 1780s and 1790s affect women? What was the particular contribution of Judith Sargent Murray?

Question 71

Which state legislature disfranchised women in 1807 because they thought the polls were no place for ladies?

A) Virginia
B) Rhode Island
C) New Jersey
D) Massachusetts

Question 72

Compare and contrast the impact of the Revolution on the position of women and on the position of African Americans in American society. How, in the years following the Revolution, was the revolutionary commitment to equality denied to women and African Americans? How was this denial justified?

Question 73

The XYZ affair

A) promoted a deeper military alliance with France.
B) led to Alexander Hamilton's resignation.
C) shook the public's faith in John Adams.
D) began with an unpaid bribe and resulted in an undeclared war.

Question 74

The contradiction between the concept that "all men are created equal" and the existence of slavery caused which of the following?

A) Some slaves in the North petitioned their state governments for freedom.
B) Slaves in several northern states rose in rebellion against the institution of slavery.
C) Northerners accepted the idea of the equality of the races.
D) All northern states abolished slavery by 1800.

Question 75

The Northwest Native Americans ceded most of what became the state of Ohio following which treaty?

A) Treaty of Paris
B) Pickney's Treaty
C) Jay Treaty
D) Treaty of Greenville

Question 76

Which of the following is true of the letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband concerning the "new Code of Laws" for the new republic?

A) She demanded that the right to vote be extended to married women and women owning property.
B) She used ideas originally developed to combat Parliamentary supremacy to call for consideration of legal rights for women.
C) She called for legislation that would allow joint ownership of property by married couples.
D) She used Jefferson's phrase "all men are created equal" to demand that slavery be abolished in all the states.

Question 77

Discuss the conflict between the Indian tribes of the Northwest Territory and the new American republic, and explain how the conflict was settled.

Question 78

Angry over the Jay Treaty, the French government ordered French vessels to seize American merchant ships carrying British goods. How did the United States government respond to this order?

A) President Adams broke diplomatic relations with France.
B) The Senate abrogated the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
C) Congress declared war on France.
D) Congress voted to increase military spending.

Question 79

What was the outcome of the contested presidential election of 1796 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

A) John Adams and his running mate, Thomas Pinckney, were elected president and vice president, respectively.
B) Thomas Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr, were elected president and vice president, respectively.
C) John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson was elected vice president.
D) Thomas Jefferson was elected president, and John Adams was elected vice president.

Question 80

Which of the following was a result of the Quasi-War?

A) The United States agreed to honor the terms of its 1778 treaty with France.
B) American forces wrested control of the port of New Orleans from France.
C) French forces invaded the United States through Spanish Florida.
D) The United States Navy established its superiority over French forces in the West Indies.