Deck 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tecumseh

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Clay

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Monroe

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Jefferson

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Albert Gallatin

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tenskwatawa,"the Prophet"

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Aaron Burr

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Quincy Adams

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Marshall

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Meriwether Lewis

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Marbury

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Madison

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Clark

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sally Hemings

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
patronage

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Wilkinson

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Samuel Chase

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert R.Livingston

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louisiana Purchase Treaty

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tripolitan War

Question 23

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Spanish Territory

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
war hawks

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
three-fifths clause

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impeachment

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
economic coercion

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Embargo Act of 1807

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marbury v.Madison (1803)

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
judicial review

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
mosquito fleet

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Orders in Council

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Macon's Bill No.2

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Revolution of 1800"

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impressment

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"midnight judges"

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chesapeake incident

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Judiciary Act of 1789

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Judiciary Act of 1801

Question 41

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Louisiana Purchase of 1803

Question 42

Though Jefferson won the popular and electoral vote,a strange deadlock led to the election being decided

A) in the Senate.
B) by the Electoral College.
C) in the House of Representatives.
D) by the Supreme Court.
E) by the Electoral Commission.

Question 43

The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except

A) believers in a strong central government.
B) strict constructionists.
C) protectors of agrarian purity.
D) believers of political and economic liberty.
E) strong supporters of state's rights.

Question 44

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Original United States by Treaty of 1783

Question 45

In the election of 1800,the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except

A) having robbed a widow of her trust fund.
B) having fathered numerous mulatto children by his own slave women.
C) being an atheist.
D) secretly encouraging Aaron Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton.
E) having robbed children of their trust funds.

Question 46

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ British Territory

Question 47

Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his

A) unswerving conformity to Republican party principles.
B) rigid attention to formal protocol at White House gatherings.
C) moderation in the administration of public policy.
D) ruthless use of the patronage power to appoint Republicans to federal offices.
E) inability to get legislation passed by Congress.

Question 48

Jefferson complained to his friend John Adams about what aspect of his life?

A) The lack of technological inventions that would enable him to keep copies of his written work.
B) Responding to the many letters he received - 1267 in 1820 alone.
C) The political cartoons by his enemies that made him look like a buffoon.
D) The difficulties of juggling political life with managing his Monticello home and farm.
E) Ongoing problems within his marriage after he became president.

Question 49

One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was

A) Adams's efforts to get America involved in a war with France.
B) increased public debt brought on by war preparations.
C) Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France.
D) Alexander Hamilton's support of Adams.
E) the stories circulating about Adams's relationship with a slave woman.

Question 50

In the 1800 election,Thomas Jefferson won the state of New York because

A) of a reaction against Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson's enemy.
B) Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson.
C) of the high taxes passed by the Adams administration.
D) Napoleon promised to sell the Louisiana Territory only to Jefferson.
E) Jefferson had a natural appeal for New York's urban ethnic voters.

Question 51

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Oregon Country

Question 52

Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except

A) to return to the original spirit of the revolution.
B) restore the republican experiment.
C) check the growth of government power.
D) halt the decay of virtue.
E) support the establishment of a strong army.

Question 53

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the

A) South and West.
B) North.
C) large cities.
D) East.
E) New England.

Question 54

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

A) moved the United States away from its democratic ideals.
B) marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.
C) occurred after he left the presidency.
D) caused America to do what the British had been doing for a generation regarding the election of a legislative body.
E) was in no way a revolution.

Question 55

One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonians after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was

A) the need to strengthen diplomatic ties with Britain.
B) to go off the gold standard.
C) to decrease tariffs.
D) to institute an excise tax.
E) that it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently.

Question 56

With Thomas Jefferson's election as president,the Democratic-Republican party

A) grew stronger and more unified.
B) removed many Federalists from government jobs.
C) soon resented its leaders' lavish life-style.
D) grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power.
E) sought to extend the Alien and Sedition Acts to punish their enemies.

Question 57

Thomas Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives when

A) a few Federalists refrained from voting.
B) Aaron Burr withdrew from the race.
C) Jefferson agreed to appoint John Marshall to the Supreme Court.
D) additional Jeffersonians became members of the House.
E) the electoral college gave up its responsibility.

Question 58

On becoming president,Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

A) the Alien and Sedition Acts.
B) the charter of the National Bank.
C) the excise tax on whiskey.
D) the funding and assumption of the national debt.
E) money to fund the naval build-up.

Question 59

As president,Thomas Jefferson's stand on several political issues that he had previously championed

A) remained unchanged.
B) was reversed.
C) grew even more rigid.
D) compelled him to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts.
E) caused him to reject slavery.

Question 60

All of the following relate to question of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings except

A) rumors that Jefferson fathered her mulatto children were used by his political opponents to discredit him in the 1800 presidential election.
B) Jefferson consistently denied having had a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings throughout his life.
C) as late as the 1870s, one of Sally's children claimed that his mother identified Jefferson as the father of her five children.
D) in the late 20th century, DNA evidence showed a high probability that Jefferson fathered Sally's youngest son.
E) today, most scholars believe that Jefferson fathered only one of Hemings children; the other four had other fathers.

Question 61

The difference in price between what Jefferson had authorized his negotiators to pay for New Orleans and West Florida and what they actually paid for all of Louisiana was

A) $5 million.
B) $15 million.
C) $25 million.
D) $100 million.
E) nothing.

Question 62

When it came to the major Federalist economic programs,Thomas Jefferson as president

A) left practically all of them intact.
B) quickly dismantled them.
C) slowly undid everything the Federalists achieved.
D) attacked only the Bank of the United States.
E) vetoed any new tariffs.

Question 63

Before he became chief justice of the Supreme Court,John Marshall's service at Valley Forge during the American Revolution convinced him

A) to support Thomas Jefferson and his republican principles.
B) to give up the life of a soldier and return to law school.
C) of the drawbacks of feeble central authority.
D) of the futility of opposing Britain.
E) of the dangers of a strong central government.

Question 64

John Marshall,as chief justice of the United States,helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by

A) applying Jeffersonian principles in all of his decisions.
B) asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation, giving the Supreme Court the power to determine constitutionality.
C) overriding presidential vetoes.
D) listening carefully to and heeding the advice of lawyers arguing cases before the Supreme Court.
E) increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

Question 65

The chief justice who carried out,more than any other federal official,the ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning a powerful federal government was

A) James Madison.
B) William Marbury.
C) John Marshall.
D) Samuel Chase.
E) John Jay.

Question 66

Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous than armies because they

A) were generally smaller in numbers.
B) had little chance of starting a war.
C) were in less contact with foreign powers.
D) could not march inland and endanger liberties.
E) were more useful in protecting overseas trade.

Question 67

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?

A) Senators quickly approved the purchase.
B) It had enthusiastic public support.
C) It was the best real estate bargain in history - adding 828,000 square miles to the United States at three cents an acre.
D) It more than tripled the size of the United States.
E) It cost $15 million.

Question 68

Thomas Jefferson's failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant that

A) no federal judge could ever be removed from office.
B) judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved.
C) Jefferson's effectiveness as president had been lost.
D) an unfortunate precedent had been established.
E) Aaron Burr would go free and unpunished.

Question 69

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the

A) Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States.
B) U.S. Marine Corps was established.
C) mosquito fleet was defeated by the pirates at Tripoli.
D) army was disbanded.
E) British blockaded the east coast.

Question 70

Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because

A) the men appointed were of poor quality.
B) they believed that the appointments were unconstitutional.
C) they did not want a showdown with the Supreme Court.
D) it was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the government.
E) these judges were not needed.

Question 71

The case of Marbury v.Madison involved the question of who had the right to

A) commit the United States to entangling alliances.
B) impeach federal officers for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
C) determine the meaning of the Constitution.
D) purchase foreign territory for the United States.
E) appoint Supreme Court justices.

Question 72

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Louisiana Purchase,(B)Chesapeake incident,(C)Burr's trial for treason,and (D)Embargo Act.

A) A, B, D, C
B) C, D, A, B
C) A, C, B, D
D) D, B, C, A
E) B, D, C, A

Question 73

Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of

A) preventing Napoleon from handing Louisiana back to Spain.
B) purchasing as much territory west of the Mississippi as they could get.
C) preventing Napoleon from fortifying New Orleans and St. Louis.
D) bribing the French foreign ministry into permitting Americans to deposit grain in New Orleans.
E) purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.

Question 74

Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reasons except

A) he had suffered misfortunes in Santo Domingo.
B) he hoped that the territory would one day help America to thwart the ambitions of the British.
C) he did not want to drive America into the arms of the British.
D) yellow fever killed many French troops.
E) he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war.

Question 75

As chief justice of the United States,John Marshall helped to ensure that

A) states' rights were protected.
B) the programs of Alexander Hamilton were overturned.
C) the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
D) both the Supreme Court and the president could rule a law unconstitutional.
E) Aaron Burr was convicted of treason.

Question 76

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision was to

A) purchase Louisiana from France.
B) send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean.
C) drive the British out of the northwest forts.
D) purchase Florida from Spain.
E) form an alliance with Spain.

Question 77

In order to purchase New Orleans from France,if Monroe and Livingston failed in their negotiations,Thomas Jefferson

A) threatened to form an alliance with France's enemy, Spain.
B) was unwilling to go to war.
C) proposed to break away from all alliances to prove our neutrality.
D) was willing to use funds from private individuals if Congress would not authorize enough money for the purchase.
E) decided to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain.

Question 78

The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

A) America's overthrow of the Tripoli government.
B) a substantial defeat of the main American fleet.
C) a peace treaty in 1805.
D) the French colonial conquest of North Africa.
E) the mediation of Islamic religious authorities.

Question 79

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they

A) were usually ineffective in battle.
B) always developed a destructive rivalry with the navy.
C) could be used to establish a dictatorship.
D) were contrary to Article II of the Constitution.
E) would be made up of citizen soldiers.

Question 80

To guard American shores,Thomas Jefferson

A) built a fleet of frigates.
B) constructed coastal fortifications.
C) constructed two hundred tiny gunboats.
D) signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.
E) enlisted the aid of France.