Chapter 11

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On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

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The excise tax on Whiskey

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Thomas Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” was remarkable in that it

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marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties

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Lewis and Clark’s expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except

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Treaties with several Indian nations

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The legal precedent for judicial review was established when

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President Adams appointed several “midnight judges” to the federal courts

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

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Determine the meaning of the constitution

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The British impressed American sailors into the British Navy because

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They needed more men

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Seafaring New England opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except

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Their strong trade ties with France

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Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

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an overland trail to the Pacific

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To deal with British and French violations of America’s neutrality, Thomas Jefferson

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Enacted an economic embargo

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The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except

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Retaliate for the British burning of Washington DC

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Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada becaus

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it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans

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To guard American shores, Thomas Jefferson

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Constructed 200 tiny gunboats

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

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asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation

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Thomas Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives when

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A few federalists refrained from voting

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

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Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the USA

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

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Adam’s refusal to take the country to war with France

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

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left practically all of them intact

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Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adam’s last minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because

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It was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the government

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Tecumseh argued that Indians should

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not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed

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

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purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American trade

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Thomas Jefferson’s embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that

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he underestimated Britain’s dependence on American trade

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

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secretly encouraging Aaron Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton

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

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Believers in a strong central government

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

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That it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently

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Once begun, the War of 1812 was strongly supported by

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the West and South

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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

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Britain’s commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America’s profitable New England shipping business

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Thomas Jefferson had strong misgivings about the wisdom of

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maintaining a large standing army

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During the war of 1812, the New England states

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lent more money and sent more food to the British arm than to the American army

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Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they

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Could be used to establish a dictatorship

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Macon’s Bill No. 2

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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

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By 1810, the most insistent demand for declaration of war against Britain came from

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The West and the South

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Thomas Jefferson’s first major foreign policy decision was to

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send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean

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In 1812, James Madison turned to war

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to restore confidence in the Republican experiment

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

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Was reversed

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Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the

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South and West

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

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grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power

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

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John Marshall

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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

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5 million

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

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in the House of Representatives

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The British policy of impressment was a kind of

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Forced enlistment

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

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the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government

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Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France because

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he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional

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President James Madison made a major foreign-policy mistake when he

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accepted Napoleon’s promise to repeal its trade restrictions

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In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson won the state of NY because

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Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson

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The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in

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the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy

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Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only ___ from France

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New Orleans and the Floridas

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The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

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A peace treaty in 1805

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Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of

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The Thames