9. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 9: The Panic of 1819

**Quiz for Document 9.3: Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition (1820)**

Quiz for Document 9.3: Virginia Agricultural Society, Antitariff Petition (1820)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. The Virginia Agricultural Society argued in its petition that increased competition in the marketplace would

drive up prices.

safeguard against unfair pricing.

promote honesty among dealers.

preserve liberty in the Republic.

2. The authors of the Virginia Agricultural Society petition explicitly frame their protest within which of the following contexts?

The War of 1812

Hamilton and Jefferson’s dispute over the Bank of the United States

The Missouri Compromise

The American Revolution

3. The authors of the Virginia Agricultural Society’s petition argued that the proposed tariff was unfair because it

benefitted the U.S. government but not the state governments or the people .

would be borne primarily by farmers, who depended on imported goods.

made American farm prices too expensive for Europeans.

violated the principles of laissez-faire economics protected by the Constitution.

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