Dr. Neal’s AP U.S. History
TEST PACKET: MC-3
EXAM #2: Colonization through Era of Good Feeling
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the BEST answer to complete the following questions. (Two
points each for 80 points.)
1. By the time of Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603, England possessed all the following elements to
compete for colonial outposts EXCEPT what?
a. enclosure laws and population growth which formed a ready supply of potential
colonists
b. a large growing navy with sailors experienced in American waters
c. peace with Spain and other potential rivals in the Americas
d. ambitious leaders and experienced soldiers seeking fame and fortune.
2. What had happened to the New England economy by the 1650s?
a. diversified into farming, fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding and other enterprises
b. increasingly depended on fur and tobacco
c. collapsed as many returned to Cromwell’s English Commonwealth
d. became more dependent on the Atlantic Slave Trade
3. The Puritans of England were so named because they were trying to
a. “Purge” or separate themselves from the corrupt English Church
b. “Pursue” religious tolerance for all Christian creeds
c. “Purify” the English Church from within
d. “Purport” or profess the principles of self-government
4. By 1519, Ferdinand Magellan had done what?
a. discovered the strait that now bears his name.
b. discovered Guam.
c. discovered the Philippines.
d. returned to Europe.
5. George Whitefield
a. was a British customs agent who was tarred and feathered.
b. was Harvard’s first president.
c. was a major figure in the Great Awakening.
d. founded the American Philosophical Society.
6. The Enlightenment
a. led some people to the idea that God was like a master clockmaker who planned the
universe and set it in motion.
b. was rejected by most Puritan leaders.
c. was based mainly on the writings of Martin Luther.
d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.
7. A central element of John Calvin’s theology was his belief in what?
a. salvation through good works
c. infant baptism
b. predestination
d. papal infallibility
8. Roger William’s mistrust of the purity of others eventually led him to the belief that
a. all churches were equally valid.
b. there should be complete separation of church and state.
c. the government must direct actions of the church to assure its purity.
d. only those people who believed exactly as he did could be saved.
9. Shays’ Rebellion and other similar rebellions were protests over what?
a. settlement methods of western land claims
b. Congress’s failure to pay Continental soldiers’ pensions
c. economic depression and enforcement of debtor laws
d. attempts to end slavery and the slave trade
10. The placement of the national capital on the boundary of Virginia and Maryland came about in a
compromise to obtain enough votes to
a. ratify Jay’s and Pinckney’s Treaties.
b. pass Hamilton’s assumption plan.
c. ratify the Bill of Rights.
d. pass the Alien and Sedition Acts
11. The line of settlement in the post-Revolution western settlement mainly follow the
a. St Lawrence River
c. Great Lakes
b. Missouri River
d. Ohio River
12. Who was Washington’s Secretary of State?
a. John Hancock
c. James Madison
b. Thomas Jefferson
d. Edmund Randolph
13. As a result of Jay’s Treaty
a. the British agreed to evacuate their northwest posts by 1796.
b. the border with Canada was adjusted in favor of America.
c. all American trade with the British West Indies was legalized.
d. duties on most items imported from Britain were cut in half.
14. In his Farewell Address, Washington
a. discouraged the growing spirit of sectionalism.
b. discouraged the spirit of political parties
c. urged Americans not to become involved in permanent arrangements
with foreign nations.
d. All the above statements are true.
15. In the election of 1796, what happened?
a. John Adams defeated George Washington
b. Alexander Hamilton’s scheming against John Adams allowed
Thomas Jefferson to win the vice-presidency.
c. The nation experimented for the first time with the direct
Election of the President.
d. George Washington announced his support for Thomas Jefferson.
16. What was the preferred crop of pioneers on the Wilderness Trail in Kentucky and Tennessee?
a. corn
c. cotton
b. tobacco
d. wheat
17. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that
a. states could decide if laws were unconstitutional.
b. taxes imposed by Congress were unconstitutional.
c. immigrants should be expelled from the country if they were not loyal
to the American cause.
d. the “freedom of speech” clause in the Bill of Rights did not apply
to purely political rhetoric.
18. The Alien Act of 1798
a. shut off immigration to the United States
b. banned noncitizens from holding public office.
c. led to a crackdown on Republican journalists.
d. was aimed especially at French and Irish Republicans.
19. The objections to paying off the national debt at full value included:
a. the unfairness of allowing speculators to make money on bonds they had bought at
reduced prices.
b. the damage it would do to the honor and reputation of the national government.
c. the great percentage of the debt that was held by people in the South
d. all the above.
20. Madison and Jefferson objected to the national band primarily because
a. they believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
b. they felt it was not powerful enough to meet the nation’s financial needs.
c. it would cost the government too much money.
d. it would be located in New York rather than Virginia.
21. As a result of Jay’s Treaty:
a. the British agreed to evacuate their northwest posts by 1796.
b. the border with Canada was adjusted in favor of America.
c. all American trade with the British West Indies was legalized.
d. duties on most items imported from Britain were cut in half.
22. The Judiciary Act of 1801:
a. created three new positions on the Supreme Court.
b. was the first act passed by the Republicans.
c. allowed federal judges to be impeached under the Sedition Act.
d. was the legacy of the Federalists as they left office.
23. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton’s goal was:
a. to repudiate the national debt.
b. to reduce the burden of federal taxes.
c. to create a vibrant, capitalist economy.
d. all the above statements are true.
24. The national band endorsed by Hamilton:
a. would be totally government-owned.
b. would issue bank notes that would serve as uniform currency.
c. was specifically authorized in the Constitution.
d. was most strongly supported by Southern Congressmen.
25. The conflict with France that erupted in 1798:
a. was over debts still owed to France from the Revolution.
b. led to an attempted French invasion of the U.S.
c. was an undeclared naval war.
d. resulted in a decisive American victory.
26. The first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. was
a. George Washington
c. Thomas Jefferson
b. John Adams
d. John Quincy Adams
27. Thomas Jefferson believed that a large federal debt would:
a. mean high taxes and public corruption
b. be a national “blessing”
c. help bankers and investors in the United Stated make money from the federal government
d. be easily paid off in fifty years
28. In the case of Marbury v. Madison:
a. Jefferson was forbidden to change appointments made to the Supreme Court.
b. a law of Congress was declared unconstitutional.
c. the Supreme Court acknowledged that it had no power over the president.
d. the Federalists won the assurance that they would keep their appointments in the
judicial branch of government.
29. The Louisiana Purchase:
a. was favored by New England Federalists
b. cost the United States $3 million.
c. more than doubled the size of the United States
d. for the first time gave Americans a strip of land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
30. The Louisiana Purchase was a problem for Jefferson because:
a. the cost was too high for the United States to pay.
b. acquisition of new Indian lands was contrary to his principles and beliefs.
c. the territory was ideal for slavery, which he opposed.
d. he believed that the Constitution did not give authority to acquire new land.
31. To avoid the problems associated with political parties running multiple candidates for the
presidency, Congress:
a. outlawed multiple party candidates.
b. called for a constitutional convention to deal with this issue.
c. changed the qualifications for president.
d. passed the Twelfth Amendment providing that electors use separate ballots to
vote for a president and a vice-president.
32. Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with:
a. John Quincy Adams
c. Thomas Jefferson
b. Aaron Burr
d. Charles C. Pinckney
33. Who was tried for treason for his vague intrigues concerning the Louisiana Territory?
a. Aaron Burr
c. General Wilkinson
b. Andrew Jackson
d. Benedict Arnold
34. Jefferson’s response to British and French interference with U.S. shipping was:
a. an effort to woo France into an alliance.
b. an effort to woo Britain into an alliance.
c. what he called a policy of “peaceable coercion.”
d. to ignore the matter and continue trading with both.
35. The Embargo Act of 1807:
a. was passed over Jefferson’s veto
b. was not a success because too many items were exempted.
c. did not hurt the French very much.
d. had the support of most New England Federalists.
36. During the War of 1812, the most effective victories for the United States occurred:
a. at sea, with attacks on the British navy in the Azores.
b. on land, with the invasion of Canada.
c. along the eastern seaboard, where British efforts to invade were repeatedly repelled.
d. on the Great Lakes, where the small American navy repeatedly raised morale with
victories over British ships.
37. The greatest humiliation to the United States in the War of 1812 occurred when the British:
a. sank the Leopard just outside territorial waters off Virginia.
b. invaded and burned Washington, D.C.
c. captured Fort McHenry and Baltimore.
d. attached New Orleans two weeks after the war ended.
38. The treaty ending the War of 1812 was negotiated in:
a. Ghent
c. London
b. Paris
d. Vienna
39. To President Jefferson, one major incentive to purchase Louisiana was to:
a. gain the support of the Federalists.
b. secure American access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans.
c. spend some of the surplus money in the treasury.
d. prove that the United States had become a world power.
40. The 1807 Chesapeake-Leopard affair:
a. convinced Thomas Jefferson to go to war with Britain.
b. involved a British crew which mutinied and joined the Americans.
c. involved a British ship bombarding an American naval vessel.
d. stopped the British practice of impressment.