Chapter 11 Flashcards
On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed
The excise tax on Whiskey
Thomas Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” was remarkable in that it
marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties
Lewis and Clark’s expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except
Treaties with several Indian nations
The legal precedent for judicial review was established when
President Adams appointed several “midnight judges” to the federal courts
The case of Marbury vs. Madison involved the question of who had the right to
Determine the meaning of the constitution
The British impressed American sailors into the British Navy because
They needed more men
Seafaring New England opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except
Their strong trade ties with France
Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of
an overland trail to the Pacific
To deal with British and French violations of America’s neutrality, Thomas Jefferson
Enacted an economic embargo
The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except
Retaliate for the British burning of Washington DC
Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada becaus
it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans
To guard American shores, Thomas Jefferson
Constructed 200 tiny gunboats
John Marshall, as chief justice of the US, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of the government by
asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation
Thomas Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives when
A few federalists refrained from voting
Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the army when
Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the USA
One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was
Adam’s refusal to take the country to war with France
When it came to the major Federalist economic programs, Thomas Jefferson as president
left practically all of them intact
Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adam’s last minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because
It was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the government
Tecumseh argued that Indians should
not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed
Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of
purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American trade
Thomas Jefferson’s embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that
he underestimated Britain’s dependence on American trade
In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except
secretly encouraging Aaron Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton
The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except
Believers in a strong central government
One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonians after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was
That it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently
Once begun, the War of 1812 was strongly supported by
the West and South
Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that
Britain’s commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America’s profitable New England shipping business
Thomas Jefferson had strong misgivings about the wisdom of
maintaining a large standing army
During the war of 1812, the New England states
lent more money and sent more food to the British arm than to the American army
Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they
Could be used to establish a dictatorship
Macon’s Bill No. 2
permitted trade w/ all nations but promised that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the US would strop trading w/ the other
By 1810, the most insistent demand for declaration of war against Britain came from
The West and the South
Thomas Jefferson’s first major foreign policy decision was to
send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean
In 1812, James Madison turned to war
to restore confidence in the Republican experiment
As president, Thomas Jefferson’s stand on several political issues that he had previously championed
Was reversed
Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the
South and West
With Thomas Jefferson’s election as president, the Democratic-Republican party
grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power
The chief of justice who carried out, more than any other federal official, the ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning a powerful federal government was
John Marshall
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
5 million
Though Jefferson won the popular and electoral vote, a strange deadlock led to the election being decided
in the House of Representatives
The British policy of impressment was a kind of
Forced enlistment
As chief justice of the US, John Marshall helped to ensure that
the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government
Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France because
he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional
President James Madison made a major foreign-policy mistake when he
accepted Napoleon’s promise to repeal its trade restrictions
In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson won the state of NY because
Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson
The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in
the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy
Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only ___ from France
New Orleans and the Floridas
The American naval war with Tripoli ended with
A peace treaty in 1805
Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of
The Thames
