Author Question: Americans found British impressments particularly objectionable because: A) the Royal Navy paid ... (Read 29 times)

yoroshambo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The battle at Tippecanoe:

A) was a decisive victory for William Henry Harrison.
B) resulted in the death of Tecumseh.
C) forced the Shawnee to flee west.
D) drove Tecumseh into a formal alliance with Britain.

Question 2

The response of Tecumseh and Tenskatawa to white expansion would best be described as:

A) voluntary assimilation.
B) pan-Indian resistance.
C) accepting the reservation system.
D) acknowledging whites legal rights to western land.

Question 3

If you had been a Shawnee follower of Black Hoof, you would have:

A) assimilated to white culture.
B) sought support from the British in Canada.
C) fled as far west as you could.
D) joined other tribes resisting white expansion.

Question 4

Jefferson advocated a policy of Indian removal to the trans-Mississippi west because he believed:

A) Indian ways of life must be preserved.
B) white settlers would never move far west.
C) the British could not influence Indians in remote areas.
D) Indians who resisted assimilation could live undisturbed.

Question 5

The Embargo Act had the greatest impact on:

A) French merchants.
B) British merchants.
C) American farmers
D) New Englanders.

Question 6

Americans found British impressments particularly objectionable because:

A) the Royal Navy paid low wages.
B) they resulted in disruptions, which lessened profits in shipping.
C) they demonstrated Britain's failure to recognize American citizenship.
D) Jefferson did nothing to stop them.