Chapter 10 Study guide

Question 1

Which two candidates had the same number of electoral votes at the end of the
Election of 1800?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Question 2

How many electoral votes did Jefferson and Burr have?

Answer 2

73

Question 3

What decided the Election of 1800 after there was a tie in the Electoral College?

Answer 3

House of Representatives

Question 4

What amendment set the requirements for presidential elections?

Answer 4

12th Amendment

Question 5

What type of governmental style “lets the people do as they choose”?

Answer 5

Laissez-faire

Question 6

What act helped the Federalists control the courts?

Answer 6

Judiciary Act of 1801

Question 7

Why did John Adams want to appoint these judges before he left office?

Answer 7

They thought it was unfair to force a new president to finish the last ones job

Question 8

Marbury v. Madison was the first time the Supreme Court had ever decided that
something was what?

Answer 8

Unconstitutional

Question 9

Why would farmers in TN/KY establish their homes and farms near rivers that fed
into the Mississippi River?

Answer 9

To ship their crops to other markets

Question 10

Who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

Answer 10

France

Question 11

How much did the US pay for the area in the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 11

15 million

Question 12

What political party threatened to secede due to the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 12

Federalists

Question 13

Who was sent on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory

Answer 13

Lewis and Clark

Question 14

What river did those explorers follow along on their way to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 14

Mississippi River

Question 15

Why was the Lewis and Clark expedition important to the western expansion of the
US?

Answer 15

They inspired people to go west and settle

Question 16

What did the US do to prohibit trade with the rest of the world?

Answer 16

They worried and panicked

Question 17

What did Tecumseh try to build in response to Ohio River Valley settlement?

Answer 17

Native American Confederacy

Question 18

Who earned the nickname “Tippecanoe” after the battle of the same name?

Answer 18

William Henry Harrison

Question 19

Who were two famous War Hawks that pressured Madison for war with Britain?

Answer 19

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

Question 20

What were the causes of the War of 1812?

Answer 20

Andrew Jackson leads an attack against the Creek Indians of Mississippi

Question 21

What happened at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?

Answer 21

The impressment of soldiers and the attack on the Chesapeake

Question 22

What city was burned greatly at the war

Answer 22

Washington DC

Question 23

What did Dolley Madison save from the President’s mansion?

Answer 23

A portrait of George Washington

Question 24

What 3 major buildings were burned down in Washington DC in the War of 1812?

Answer 24

The Capitol, the White House, and the library of congress

Question 25

What was he fort found at the entrance to the Baltimore Harbor?

Answer 25

Fort McHenry

Question 26

What famous American song was written after the Battle of Fort McHenry?

Answer 26

The Star Spangled Banner

Question 27

What treaty ended the War of 1812?

Answer 27

The Treaty of Ghent

Question 28

What major battle took place after the peace treaty was signed?

Answer 28

Battle of New Orleans

Question 29

Who became a well-known hero after that battle?

Answer 29

Andrew Jackson

Question 30

What did the outcome of the War of 1812 do for America?

Answer 30

Gain respect