8 multiple choice history questions, need answers FAST?

1. Which answer best defines the civic virtue “truth”?

Truth means honoring one’s country.

Truth is an obligation to seek honesty in oneself and others.

Truth means respect for many opinions, cultures, and religious beliefs.

Truth means to argue a point based on fact and respect others’ views.

2. Why did Eliza Pinckney describe Florida as “quite troublesome for our great nation"?

because indentured servant contracts were not allowed in Florida

because the Spanish were trying to expand the borders of Florida into United States territory

because the Native Americans, British, Spanish and the U.S. were all fighting for its control

because the Seminoles occupied most of the territory and did not welcome white landowners

3. The United States gave Seminole Indian Malee Francis a medal of honor for saving an American soldier’s life during the First Seminole War. Why was this so unusual?

because she eventually married the soldier

because she was only 15 years old when the soldier was captured

because the American troops were attacking the Seminoles to take their land

because the soldier was lost, and wandered onto the Seminole’s land by accident

4. Why did Napoleon want to keep Santo Domingo under French rule?

Santo Domingo was France’s most valuable colony.

Toussaint L'Ouverture's revolt had greatly angered Napoleon.

The French needed Santo Domingo to have access to New Orleans.

Napoleon wanted to use Santo Domingo as a base to challenge the U.S.

5. How did George Washington help America become free of British rule?

His strategies during the Revolutionary War helped America defeat the British.

His leadership at the Constitutional Convention was a major turning point for the two nations.

He met with the British Parliament and helped develop a peace treaty between the two nations.

His first act as president was to declare America an independent nation no longer under British rule.

6. Washington once said, "I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." Which of the following events in Washington's life is the best evidence of this statement?

President Washington worked to establish good relations with Great Britain by supporting the Jay Treaty.

When war broke out between Britain and France, Washington did not allow the U.S. to take sides with either nation.

When Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army, he stepped down and returned to private life.

George Washington set a lasting precedent by giving both an inaugural and a farewell address to Congress and the nation.

7. During his first term as president, Washington began seeking the advice of men he had appointed to lead various executive offices. This tradition has continued throughout all subsequent presidencies. What is this group of men and women called today?

Senate

Cabinet

Congress

House of Representatives

8. Which British policy caused George Washington to quit his post as commander of a colony's regiment?

The British did not treat American military officers as equals.

His regiment was not allowed to fight in the French and Indian War.

The British did not allow Americans to become officers in the military.

American regiments were not allowed to fight alongside British regiments.