Quiz 3 Hisu 390
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Question 1
2.5 out of 2.5 points
What was a right the Virginia Declaration of Rights espoused?
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Question 2
D.
All of the above
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Much like in the French and Indian War, which class of people in Virginia shouldered the bulk of
military enlistment and won the War of Independence?
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Question 3
Single, landless young men who did not hold voting rights
2.5 out of 2.5 points
Which Revolutionary era governor of Virginia served with great distinction?
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Question 4
D.
None of them
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What organization of powerful elites, led by Thomas Ritchie and supported by his Richmond
Enquirer newspaper, heavily influenced Virginia’s politics for nearly twenty years?
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Question 5
C.
The Richmond Junto
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What two factions in early U.S. politics could start to be seen in Virginia’s debate over whether or not to
repay its debt to British merchants after the end of the American Revolution?
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Question 6
C.
The Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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Which Virginian did the Second Continental Congress select to be the commander in chief of the
Patriot forces to unite the southern colonies with New England?
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Question 7
B.
George Washington
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The “Virginia Dynasty” in the early years of the American republic refers to what?
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D.
The large number of Virginians involved in national politics in the legislative,
executive, and judicial branches
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Question 8
2.5 out of 2.5 points
What was the main idea the “Doctrines of ’98” espoused and defended, that politicians pointed back to
for many decades after their publication?
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Question 9
A.
States’ rights
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What was a key contribution John Marshall made during his time as the chief justice of the Supreme
Court?
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C.
He established the judiciary as an equal part of the federal government through the
principle of judicial review
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Question 10
What issue doomed Thomas Jefferson’s second term as president?
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D.
His attempted economic coercion of England that brought calamity on American
exporters
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Question 11
2.5 out of 2.5 points
What document that had been written in 1776 did the Bill of Rights draw many of its ideas from?
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C.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
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Question 12
What was notable about Virginia’s first two U.S. senators?
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B.
They were outspoken opponents of the U.S. Constitution
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Question 13
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Which Virginian wrote nearly the entire first draft of the Declaration of Independence?
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C.
Thomas Jefferson
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Question 14
Which of the following is NOT true of the Enlightenment:
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B.
It began in the United States
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Question 15
2.5 out of 2.5 points
What was the main reason the Richmond theater fire disaster became such a deadly one?
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C.
The structural design of the building made escaping the fire challenging
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Question 16
Why was the Richmond theater fire so shocking to people around the country?
out of 2.5
points
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E.
All of the Above
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Question 17
0 out of 2.5 points
Which branch of the federal government did Virginians NOT dominate for the first two centuries of
United States?
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A.
Judicial
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Question 18
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The idea that the people have the right to “alter or abolish” an oppressive or corrupt government is
best connected to:
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C.
Social contract theory
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Question 19
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Who spearheaded the fundraising effort to build a church on the site of the Richmond theater, to serve
as a place of worship and a memorial to those who perished in the 1811 fire?
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A.
John Marshall
Before it was expressed by George Mason and Thomas Jefferson, who is best remembered for
theorizing the “right to life, liberty, and property”?
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D.
John Locke
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Question 20
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