Chapter 10

Question 1

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 1

1743-1826 Third President of the United States, Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and an influential Founding Father of the United States. He founded the Democratic-Republican Party and promotes the idea of a small federal government

Question 2

Ordinance of 1784

Answer 2

plan of Thomas Jefferson to organize the national domain into discrete territories along with a three-stage development of government institutions

Question 3

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 3

Called for the systematic survey of the Northwest Territory and division into mile-square plots and organization into townships

Question 4

Northwest Territory

Answer 4

Lands north of the Ohio River

Question 5

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 5

Called for the governmental development of the west based on creating self-governing republics that would be systematically added to the Union

Question 6

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 6

Land purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France. Consists of much of the midwest United States

Question 7

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 7

1769-1821 French Emperor and European conqueror who sold Franc’s North American holdings to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase

Question 8

Andrew Jackson

Answer 8

1767-1845 The seventh President of the United States, Jackson championed the US as a democracy, pushing for more political involvement by the common man. He also vetoed the US Bank’s charter and made other reforms to keep the federal government small

Question 9

Public togetherness

Answer 9

Aspect of party politics in which a group of political party members would gather together in order to have more solidarity and support

Question 10

Party newspaper

Answer 10

A journal used by a political party for disseminating party information to and encouraging more active participation among the grass roots voters

Question 11

Popular campaigning

Answer 11

Promoting candidates as being from )and therefore representing) the common masses, rather than as elite gentlemen-politicians

Question 12

Political convention

Answer 12

Large meeting of party delegates for the purpose of nominating candidates, often held with much pomp and ballyhoo

Question 13

Get out the vote activity

Answer 13

Aspects of party politics in which voters are systematically rounded up and helped to get to the polling place

Question 14

Political machine

Answer 14

group of party loyalists organized to deliver the vote on election day. Historically they often used questionable of illegal means such as buying votes or intimidation at the polls

Question 15

John Quincy Adams

Answer 15

1767-1848 Sixth President of the United States, Adams is known for formulating the Monroe Doctrine