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The writer Judith Sargent Murray argued that women


A) should have the same educational opportunities as men.
B) were equal to men in intellect and potential.
C) should have a role in society apart from their husbands.
D) should have opportunities to earn their own livings.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Jeffersonians believed in a smaller government,but they also favored a nationwide system of public schools.

A) True
B) False

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What was the significance of Eli Whitney to the development of the American economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century?

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Under the treaty terms for the Louisiana Purchase,


A) the United States agreed to make annual payments to France for twenty years.
B) the United States would gain exclusive access to the port of New Orleans.
C) residents living in Louisiana were to be made citizens of France.
D) the land boundaries were not clearly defined.
E) the United States had to remain neutral in the war between England and France.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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The expansion of the medical profession during the early nineteenth century resulted in a


A) broad increase in the number of hospitals.
B) decline in midwives.
C) rapid rise in care for the disabled.
D) significant gain in the general body of medical knowledge.
E) large jump in average life expectancy.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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Tecumseh


A) believed the only effective means to resist white settlers was Indian tribal unity.
B) encouraged Indian assimilation into the United States to save their lives.
C) had a brother known as "the Shooting Star."
D) fought against William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
E) experienced a mystical awakening in the process of recovering from alcoholism.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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In what ways was American nationalism strengthened in the early nineteenth century? In what ways was it challenged?

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The message of the Second Great Awakening


A) called for an active and fervent piety.
B) restored the traditional belief in predestination.
C) incorporated the belief of skeptical rationalism.
D) found its greatest number of converts among young men.
E) was rejected by most women as being retrograde and reactionary.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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In the Treaty of Ghent,the British renounced their practice of impressments.

A) True
B) False

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The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.

A) True
B) False

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At the end of the eighteenth century,only a small proportion of white Americans were members of formal churches.

A) True
B) False

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The religious concept of deism


A) emphasized the role of God in the world.
B) challenged many of the ideas that had emerged in the Enlightenment.
C) argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs.
D) was frowned upon by educated Americans such as Jefferson and Franklin.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

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The British practice of stopping American ships and seizing American sailors was called ________.

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During William Henry Harrison's governorship of the Indiana Territory,


A) violence between the United States and Indian tribes declined.
B) he refused to sign new treaties with Indian tribes.
C) all Indian tribes were driven west of the Mississippi River.
D) he used threats and bribery as a means to acquire Indian lands.
E) he thwarted plans by Indian tribes to elect a separate Indian governor of the territory.

F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

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Immediately following Jefferson's first inauguration,Republicans began to attack the judicial branch of government.

A) True
B) False

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The early nineteenth-century growth of the medical profession resulted in an expansion in opportunities for women.

A) True
B) False

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The idea of the "republican mother" presumed that it was important that women be educated.

A) True
B) False

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John Marshall was


A) chief justice of the Supreme Court at the time of Marbury v. Madison.
B) appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court by Thomas Jefferson.
C) a Republican.
D) a former vice president of the United States.
E) secretary of state in the Jefferson administration, and Madison's successor.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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In the War of 1812,Britain turned its full military attention to America after


A) Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
B) Napoleon's incarceration at Elba.
C) Napoleon's catastrophic campaign against Russia.
D) the American invasion of Canada.
E) the American raid and burning of York.

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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John Marshall was a Federalist who served during several Republican administrations.

A) True
B) False

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