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- 1. American success in the Revolutionary War may be attributed to all of
- the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) French assistance
- (B) popular support of rebel troops
- (C) formal military training of rebel troops
- (D) poor British military strategy
- (E) the distance between England and English troops in the colonies
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- (C) The rebel troops had no formal military training.
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- 2. The Pinckney Treaty of 1785:
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- (A) removed British troops from the United States
- (B) gave the United States the right of free deposit at New Orleans
- (C) established the Maine boundary
- (D) ended British impressment of American soldiers
- (E) established American diplomatic relations with France
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- (B) Thomas Pinckney, the United States minister to England, negotiated a treaty
- with Spain.
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- 3. What aspect of constitutional law did Hamilton and Jefferson interpret
- differently when arguing over the constitutionality of the First National
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- (A) the extent of executive powers in Article II
- (B) the elastic clause in Article I
- (C) the system of checks and balances
- (D) the extent of the powers denied to the federal government by the Bill
- of Rights
- (E) the residual powers of the states
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- (B) They disagreed on interpretation.
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- 4. In 1807, Aaron Burr was put on trial for:
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- (A) desertion from the Army
- (B) slander of public officials
- (C) conspiracy to commit treason
- (D) libel
- (E) murder
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- (C) Burr was tried for conspiracy to commit treason by plotting to annex
- Spanish territories in the Southwest and build his own empire. He was
- acquitted.
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- 5. When the Napoleonic Wars began, the hope of the U. S. was to:
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- (A) maintain a policy of neutrality between England and France
- (B) form an alliance with England
- (C) form an alliance with France
- (D) support France secretly
- (E) end all trade with foreign nations
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- (A) The United States hoped to remain neutral during the Napoleonic Wars.
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- 6. One of the effects of Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1808 was:
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- (A) the assault on the CHESAPEAKE
- (B) the Berlin Decree
- (C) a new degree of popularity for the President
- (D) increased smuggling
- (E) the purchase of Louisiana
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- (D) After the enactment of the Embargo in 1808, smuggling increased. The
- Embargo Act, which cut off all land and sea commerce with foreign nations,
- elicited much protest in Congress. It was repealed in 1809.
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- 7. The War Hawks of 1810-1811 can be best described as:
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- (A) New England Federalists
- (B) politicians from the South and West
- (C) former Revolutionary soldiers
- (D) followers of Thomas Jefferson
- (E) northeastern manufacturers
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- (B) Led by Henry Clay, the War Hawks were expansionist politicians from the
- South and West who wanted to gain control of Canada and Florida.
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- 8. The Monroe Doctrine (1823) said the:
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- (A) U. S. would not interfere with Latin American rebellions against Europe
- (B) U. S. would not interfere in the affairs of Latin America
- (C) Western Hemisphere continents would not be subjects for future
- colonization by European nations
- (D) governments of Western Hemisphere nations would not establish colonies
- elsewhere in the world
- (E) U. S. would not export its system of government elsewhere in the world
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- (C) Monroe declared this in 1823.
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- 9. When Andrew Jackson defended "rotation in office," he was defending the:
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- (A) policy of frequent congressional elections
- (B) need for a civil service system
- (C) policy of the spoils system
- (D) tradition of an independent judiciary
- (E) tradition of the loyal opposition
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- (C) Jackson contended that the winning party should appoint its supporters to
- government posts.
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