Multiple Choice – 60 minutes Questions 1-5

--President James Madison in his decision to veto the 1817 Federal Public Works bill

Madison’s concern expressed in the above quote most closely parallels the central point of contention in which of the following political controversies in the early days of the new United States?

1. 
   Debate over the Federalists’ program to fund the national debt, following the war for independence
   

(C) Debates over the prudence of the establishment of political parties

(D) The debates over the establishment of the first national bank
2.

Which of the following provides the best argument for how Madison's veto might have contributed to the rise of U.S. sectional tensions in the years leading up to and during the antebellum period?

1. 
   It resulted in a concentration of wealth in the hands of slaveholders.
   
2. 
   It created a lasting controversy that hampered Congress's ability to legislate.
   
3. 
   It discouraged the formation of a well-integrated national economy.
   
4. 
   It set a precedent for presidents to follow strict partisan lines.
   

Which of the following was a major reason for the drafting of the legislation referred to in the above excerpt?

1. 
   Westward movement by whites and resulting economic development
   
2. 
   New tariffs on European imports
   
3. 
   The need to distribute British products flooding the port cities
   
4. 
   The British blockade of Atlantic shipping for trade within the U.S.
   

The underlying ideological debate in the early 1800s over federal public works bills like that referenced in the above excerpt is essentially the same as that concerning which of the following issues at the beginning of the twentieth century in America?

(A) Reinstituting silver as part of the basis for the dollar

(B) Dependency of the economy on the railroads

(C) Regulation of monopoly and large trusts

(D) Formation of national labor unions

In relation to the general subject matter of the legislation referenced in the above excerpt, how were the subsequent actions of the northern states and the southern states different?

1. 
   The southern states invested more heavily in canals to link to rivers, which served as their main routes for transportation of goods.
   
2. 
   The southern states and the northern states equally invested in building roads, canals, and railroads, since the federal government was constrained from doing so.
   
3. 
   The northern states invested heavily in building a transportation infrastructure, while the South continued to move their agricultural goods to market through natural waterways.
   
4. 
   The North and South both effectively tied their respective regions together with an extensive network of railroads, but the South did not build as many roads and canals.
   

1830-1835

1. 
   mostly nomadic, big-game hunting societies
   
2. 
   having adopted American democratic ideals
   
3. 
   economically successful farming communities
   
4. 
   remaining unchanged from their traditional ways since the pre-colonial era
   

1. 
   To protect the tribes from conflict with the white settlers
   
2. 
   Regional expansion intended to spur migration from the North to the South
   
3. 
   Regional development in the newly emerging deep South for growing cash crops, particularly, short-staple cotton
   
4. 
   Traditional ways of negotiating land treaties with the tribes were too slow for eager white settlers
   

1. 
   It was thought the land was undesirable, bordering inhabitable land, such that white settlers would not want to encroach into the area.
   
2. 
   The land was known to be fertile, so that the tribes could still farm, yet was far enough away from the white settlements to avoid conflicts.
   
3. 
   The area was not so far away, as to isolate the tribes.
   
4. 
   The tribes, when ceding their southeastern tribal lands, had selected the new areas for themselves.
   

1. 
   Some of them had adopted white American ways.
   
2. 
   Some of them had managed to retain their traditional ways.
   
3. 
   By then, many of the American Indians of those tribal lands had attended American schools.
   
4. 
   Many of the American Indians had already mixed with the European settlers by then.