Question 1
The Specie Circular
A) encouraged the use of paper money.
B) encouraged speculation in land markets.
C) prohibited the federal government from accepting anything but gold and silver coins as payment for government land.
D) prohibited the use of gold and silver currency when trading with Native Americans.
E) outlined the outlined the platform for the Democratic party.
Question 2
Stoicism
A) was formed by Epicurus.
B) later became very popular with the Celts and Germans.
C) maintained that people could gain inner peace by seeking virtue and living according to nature.
D) believed in a material afterlife.
E) argued that one should free oneself from public activities and responsibilities.
Question 3
The Whigs
A) favored a weak central government.
B) were supported strongly by laborers.
C) encouraged immigration.
D) were supported strongly by businessmen.
E) All of these are correct.
Question 4
Who maintained that the only things that exist are atoms moving through the void?
A) Isocrates
B) Plato
C) Epicurus
D) Zeno
E) Isis
Question 5
Vice President Calhoun's doctrine of nullification was a response to the
A) Specie Circular.
B) Indian Removal Act.
C) Tariff of 1828.
D) Panic of 1819.
E) None of these are correct.