Alexander Hamilton’s funding and assumption programs suggest that he believed that humans were fundamentally motivated by A) a humanitarian concern for the welfare of others. B) a keen sense of justice and fair play. C) economic self-interest. D) religious convictions. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Congress did NOT adopt Secretary Hamilton’s financial proposal to A) fund the national debt. B) assume the states’ debts. C) create a national bank. D) aid industry. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the 1790s, America’s relations with Britain were troubled by controversies over all of the following EXCEPT A) British refusal to recognize American boundaries in the Old Southwest. B) British provocation of Indian attacks against American settlers. C) the British navy’s seizure of American cargoes and seamen. D) British troops occupying forts in the Old […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In his response to Congress’s request for additional information about the Jay Treaty, President Washington A) willingly cooperated with Congress’s request. B) submitted some of the requested documents. C) asked the Supreme Court for a ruling. D) refused to cooperate, invoking executive privilege. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The founder of the Mormon religion was A) Brigham Young. B) Marcus Whitman. C) Robert Owen. D) Joseph Smith. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which one of following was NOT a controversial issue facing those who were designing Reconstruction policy? A) who was in charge of Reconstruction policy B) what civil and political rights freedmen had C) whether the slaves were now free D) how the Confederate states were going to be readmitted ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which one of the following issues was NOT a major source of political division that led to the creation of the Second Party System? A) economic depression B) territorial expansion C) the future of slavery D) presidential succession ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
From the beginning of English colonization in North America, it was decided that A) agriculture would be the economic basis of all colonial economies. B) native peoples would be dealt with as equals of the English. C) English colonists would retain all their rights as English subjects. D) all mineral wealth that was discovered belonged […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Fourteenth Amendment required that as a condition of their readmission to the Union, southern states A) pay their Confederate war debts. B) guarantee their citizens due process and equal protection of the law. C) guarantee freedmen the right to vote. D) bar former Confederates from holding office–unless pardoned by the president. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors assert that traders and trappers were “more important than government explorers in opening the West to white settlement.” Illustrate this view by describing the specific contributions these Mountain Men made to western settleme What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Mountain Men blazed the trails through the Rockies and the Sierra […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
