ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Free trade and sailors' rights were the two issues that drew the United States into the War of
1812. - CORRECT ANSWER - True
Acre for acre, the Louisiana Purchase was not a bargain. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
What happened to King Louis XIV during the French Revolution?
a. He successfully fled to Austria with his wife
b. He was executed
c. He ruled as a less powerful constitutional monarch after the Revolution
d. He abdicated the throne and moved to Switzerland
e. He was rescued by British spies from French imprisonment - CORRECT ANSWER - b.
He was executed
The U.S. Military was well prepared for the War of 1812. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
When Thomas Jefferson became president, he was not interested in dismantling the policies that
the Federalists had established. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Seeing the events as an extension of their own progress of liberty, white Americans supported the
Haitian Revolution and the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
Anti-Federalists were concerned that the Constitution severely limited liberty - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
, The Revolution of 1800 was extremely violent. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Right of Woman:
a. was the first pamphlet published in the United States by an American woman
b. discussed that women ought to have representation in government
c. was based on her experiences as a cross-dressing soldier during the Revolutionary War
d. strongly challenged traditional gender roles
e. won strong support from the Federalist Party - CORRECT ANSWER - d. strongly
challenged traditional gender roles
Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to:
a. promote the power of state governments
b. build up the Republican Party's political power
c. succeed George Washington as president
d. make the United States a major commercial and military power
e. assure the United States would be a primarily agrarian nation - CORRECT ANSWER -
d. make the United States a major commercial and military power
Pocahontas served as Lewis and Clark's interpreter. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
The journey from 1804 to 1806 of Lewis and Clark did not produce much valuable information. -
CORRECT ANSWER - False
Judith Sargent Murray argued that women's apparent mental inferiority to men simply reflected
the fact that women had been denied:
a. the right to vote
b. enough leisure time
c. educational opportunities
d. the right to own private property