Week 9 Quiz

The fragment "doth hereby cede to the United States in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full Sovereignty the said territory" comes from which document?

Select one.

• Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
• The Louisiana Purchase Treaty, a treaty of cession
• The Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the War of Independence
• Jackson's message to Congress on Indian removal

Jackson's message to Congress on Indian removal reported to Congress on the removal policy. As the course roster records it, what type of document is the message, and which host keeps it?

Select one.

• A presidential message, kept by the Avalon Project
• A presidential proclamation, kept by the National Archives
• A presidential message, kept by the National Archives
• A federal statute, kept by the National Archives

True or false: because the 1790 schedule lists more enslaved people in Virginia than in any other district, it shows that Virginia's large enslaved population caused it to dominate the early republic.

True or false.

• True
• False

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 do about slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase?

Select one.

• It left slavery in each territory to a vote of the settlers who lived there
• It ended slavery in every territory and every state of the Union
• It admitted Missouri as a free state and Maine as a slave state
• It barred slavery north of 36 degrees 30 minutes

Which list puts the week's four events in order, earliest to latest?

Select one.

• Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Indian Removal Act, Proclamation on Nullification
• Missouri Compromise, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Indian Removal Act, Proclamation on Nullification
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Indian Removal Act, Missouri Compromise, Proclamation on Nullification
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Proclamation on Nullification, Indian Removal Act

Which document calls a state's claimed power to annul a federal law "incompatible with the existence of the Union"?

Select one.

• Jackson's message to Congress on Indian removal
• The Missouri Compromise, passed by Congress
• Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification

Which of these statements from the evidence-claims set (illustrative) show what a source says, rather than going beyond it? Select every one that does.

Select every option that applies.

• Jackson's message calls removal a benevolent policy
• Removal was benevolent because the President said so
• The Mayflower Compact says its signers combined into a civil body politic
• The Mayflower Compact created American democracy

The National Archives gives the Louisiana Purchase as about 828,000 square miles, bought for 15 million dollars.

True or false.

• True
• False

How many years separate the Louisiana Purchase Treaty from the Proclamation on Nullification?

Select one.

• 17 years
• 29 years
• 12 years
• 27 years

Jefferson and Jackson both governed under the frame of national government that had replaced the Articles of Confederation. Which document is it?

Select one.

• The Declaration of Independence, adopted in 1776
• The Articles of Confederation, in force from 1781
• The Constitution of the United States, signed in 1787
• The Northwest Ordinance, passed in 1787