Hy 120 Final Chapter 8 Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World. {Ans: True}In the XYZ affair of 1797, {Ans: French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.}The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs. {Ans: False}The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the {Ans: Republicans and Federalists}Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for {Ans: the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.}The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves. {Ans: False}With the Louisiana Purchase, {Ans: the size of the nation was doubled.}Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by {Ans: African-American slaves.}The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution. {Ans: True}The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to {Ans: take over the city of Richmond and hold whites