Questions 1 - 3 refer to the excerpt below.
"Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that
harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that,
having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we
have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter
and bloody persecutions.... We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all
Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to
change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of
opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 1801
1. The excerpt best reflects which of the
following?
(A) Conflicts over how the Constitution should
be implemented and interpreted
(B) Fcar that the United States would be
overtaken by a foreign power
(C) Disagreement over the consequences of the
French Revolution for the United States
(D) Secessionist pressures coming from
slaveholders in the South
2. Which of the following issues of that period was
Jefferson most likely concerned with in the
cxcerpt?
(A) The growth of slave labor
(B) The creation of political parties
(C) The expansion of the right to vote
(D) The growth of various Protestant religious
groups
