“Creating America”
Grade 8
McDougal Littell
NAME ___________________________________
Unit 3 Chapter Test
Main Ideas.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
1) What happened as a result of the Battle of Fallen
Timbers?
4) Which of the following best represents Washington’s view
of political parties?
(a) Some Native Americans gave up their land.
(f) Parties were needed for national unity.
(b) The British helped Native Americans.
(g) Issues would be made clearer for voters by parties.
(c) Little Turtle’s leadership was rejected by Native
American tribes.
(h) Parties would split the nation into enemy camps.
(j) The Federalist Party was the most correct party.
(d) Washington sent troops to New Orleans.
2) How did Pinckney’s Treaty make it easier for settlers in
the Trans-Appalachian West to get their goods to market?
5) How did Thomas Jefferson become vice-president in the
1796 election?
(a) He struck a deal with John Adams.
(f) It approved improvements to the Wilderness Road
that led to Kentucky.
(b) The Constitution stated that the runner-up should
become vice-president.
(g) It gave settlers in the Northwest Territory the right to
use the Great Lakes.
(c) He used the balance of powers section of the
Constitution.
(h) It gave them the right to use the Mississippi River and
port of New Orleans.
(d) The Electoral College was evenly divided about who
should be president.
(j) It declared that all bodies of water were free for
navigation.
3) How did Alexander Hamilton deal with the nation’s
financial problems?
(a) He asked the states to pay off the nation’s huge war
debts.
(b) He asked Congress to put a tax on imported foreign
goods.
(c) He borrowed money from foreign countries.
(d) He decided not to repay U.S. loans from other nations.
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
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U.S.-held fort
British-held fort
6) According to the map, the British most likely got supplies
to British forts
(f) by crossing the Appalachian Mountains.
(g) by using the Wilderness Road.
(h) by hiring Native Americans.
(j) from British Canada and the Great Lakes.
Interpreting Charts.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
The First Political Parties
Democratic-Republican Party
Federalist Party
Who Should Govern?
Had deep faith in the common people
Thought the rich, educated wellborn
should rule
Structure of Government
Favored a weak central government,
Favored a strong central government
strong state governments
Favored a loose interpretation
Favored a strict interpretation
of the Constitution
of the Constitution
Economics
Favored nation
Opposed national bank
Favored farming
Felt obliged to help France
Favored manufacturing, trade,
finance, as well as farming
Foreign Affairs
Supported Britain
Leaders: Jefferson and Madison
Leaders: Hamilton and Adams
Supporters: farmers, tradespeople,
frontier settlers
Supporters: bankers, lawyers,
manufacturers
Strongest in the South, in the
Southwest, and on the frontier
Strongest in New England
and along the Atlantic coast
7) What kind of people supported the Democratic-Republican
party?
(a) farmers and frontier settlers
(b) the rich
(c) bankers and lawyers
(d) Native Americans
Main Ideas
Choose the letter of the best answer.
8) Which document set up the federal court system?
14) Why was the American naval victory on Lake Erie so
important?
(f) the Constitution of the United States
(g) the Articles of the Confederation
(h) the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
(j) the Alien and Sedition Acts
9) Which of the following was an important legacy of the War
of 1812?
(a) Many Native Americans emigrated to Great Britain.
(f) It led to the loss of Native American support for the
British.
(g) It allowed Americans to gain control of the Erie Canal.
(h) It gave the United States control of the lake.
(j) It helped Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans.
15) Which of the following furthered Tecumseh’s efforts to
save his people’s lands?
(b) The war made the U.S. Navy as powerful as that of
Great Britain.
(a) an alliance with the British
(c) The war produced few American casualties.
(b) the Treaty of Fort Wayne
(d) The war encouraged the growth of U.S.
manufacturing.
(c) the Battle of Tippecanoe
10) Why was Napoleon willing to sell Louisiana to the United
States for so little money?
(f) Napoleon decided to concentrate on regaining French
Canada.
(g) Lewis and Clark told Napoleon the land was
worthless.
(h) Napoleon needed money to fight his wars in Europe
(j) Napoleon planned to reclaim Louisiana after the
European wars were over.
11) What special contribution did Sacagawea make to the
Lewis and Clark expedition?
(a) She cooked for the explorers during the first winter.
(b) She married one of the explorers.
(c) She guided the explorers and acted as a translator for
them.
(d) She helped them escape from an unfriendly tribe.
12) Which was true of the election of 1800?
(f) The system for choosing the president led to a threeway tie.
(g) The House of Representatives selected the president
and vice-president.
(h) The president and vice-president belonged to a
splinter party.
(j) Adams died in a duel, so Jefferson became president.
13) Which statement describes the U.S. military at the start of
the War of 1812?
(a) The army was small, poorly trained, and badly
equipped.
(b) The navy was powerful because Congress had
strengthened it.
(c) The army was aided by Native American allies.
(d) The military was led by highly experienced and welltrained officers.
(d) the Battle of the Thames
16) Why was Marbury v. Madison only a partial victory for
Jefferson and Madison?
(f) The Court ruled that Marbury deserved partial pay.
(g) The Court forced Madison to give Marbury a
judgeship.
(h) The Court upheld Madison’s decision to withhold a
judgeship from Marbury but declared it had the power
of judicial review.
(j) The Court forced Madison to give a judgeship to
Marbury and declared it had the power of judicial
review.
17) What problem troubled Jefferson about the purchase of
Louisiana?
(a) All of the new land might cause factory workers to
move west.
(b) The Constitution did not empower the president to
buy land.
(c) The Native Americans in the area refused to sign U.S.
treaties.
(d) France was selling the land for much less than it was
worth.
Interpreting Charts.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
U.S. Imports and Exports, 1804–1815
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Value in Millions of Dollars
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1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815
Exports
Imports
Year
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States
18) How does the graph show the effects of the Embargo Act
of 1807 on U.S. trade?
(f) Imports fell while exports stayed the same.
(g) Imports and exports fell.
(h) Imports and exports rose.
(j) Exports fell but imports rose.
Main Ideas
Choose the letter of the best answer.
19) Which of the following is true about the South in the
1840s?
(a) Most white Southern families held at least one slave.
(b) White Southerners formed less than half of the
region’s population.
22) Which of the following groups of inventions did the most
to pull different regions of the nation together?
(f) the steam-powered locomotive, the telegraph, the
steamboat
(g) the spinning mill, the telegraph, the steel plow
(c) All African Americans in the South were enslaved.
(h) the spinning mill, the steel plow, the steamboat
(d) About 8 percent of African Americans in the South
were free.
(j) the steel plow, the spinning mill, the steam-powered
locomotive
20) What did the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 accomplish?
23) Which reason best explains why the Northeast and the
Midwest developed a close bond?
(f) set the boundary between Canada and the United
States
(a) There was a great deal of trade between them.
(g) removed the Seminoles from Mexico
(b) They both opposed slavery.
(h) gave Florida to the United States
(c) They were both industrial regions.
(i) established naval boundaries on the Great Lakes
(d) They both held similar political views.
21) What was the sectional interest of American settlers in the
West?
24) What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Gibbons
v. Ogden?
(a) Westerners wanted cheap land and good
transportation.
(f) Only the federal government had the right to control
interstate commerce.
(b) Westerners wanted an alliance with Mexico to help
control Native Americans.
(g) States had power over the national government in
matters involving taxation.
(c) Westerners wanted free land and government grants.
(h) A state could not tax a national bank.
(d) Westerners wanted gold as their currency.
(j) A state had the right to control its own commerce.
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
Roads and Canals, 1812–1850
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