Chapter 8

Question 1

Which of the following led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed to the Federalist Party?

Answer 1

Jay’s Treaty

Question 2

The Kentucky resolution originally stated that:

Answer 2

States could nullify laws of Congress

Question 3

Fries’s Rebellion:

Answer 3

Resulted in a loss of support for Federalists in southeastern Pennsylvania

Question 4

Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812?

Answer 4

The Hartford Conventions’s allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist Party’s reputation

Question 5

Gabriel’s Rebellion:

Answer 5

Demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else

Question 6

Which of the following is true of the American response to Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave uprising, which led to the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804?

Answer 6

Many white Americans considered L’Ouverture’s uprising to be evidence of blacks’ unfitness for republican freedom

Question 7

Pierre Charles L’Enfant is well known for:

Answer 7

Designing Washington, D.C.

Question 8

Which of the following contributed to the United States going to war in 1812?

Answer 8

Congressional War Hawks who pressed for territorial expansion into Florida and Canada

Question 9

The War Hawks in Congress included:

Answer 9

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

Question 10

What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?

Answer 10

The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review

Question 11

Which of the following is true of the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 11

Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism

Question 12

After becoming president, how did Thomas Jefferson deal with the Federalists?

Answer 12

He tried to roll back almost everything they had done by cutting taxes and the size of government

Question 13

Which international partner did Alexander Hamilton think most important for the survival and prosperity of the United States?

Answer 13

The British

Question 14

Which of the following contributed to the poor American performance in the War of 1812?

Answer 14

The nation was deeply divided about whether to go to war

Question 15

The Sedition Act targeted

Answer 15

The Republican press

Question 16

Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states?

Answer 16

Tripoli had declared war on the United States after Jefferson had refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates

Question 17

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase:

Answer 17

Stretch from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Question 18

When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he:

Answer 18

Recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that white recruits received

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a result of the War of 1812?

Answer 19

The United States gained land in what is now Maine, Vermont, Michigan, and Minnesota, as well as all of modern Florida

Question 20

When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation’s success depended on:

Answer 20

Maintaining political harmony

Question 21

The “Strict constructionists” believed:

Answer 21

The federal government could only exercise powers specifically listed in the Constitution

Question 22

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:

Answer 22

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 23

What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?

Answer 23

It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports- an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly dedicated to a weak central government

Question 24

The French Revolution:

Answer 24

Reinforced the Republicans’ sympathy toward the French

Question 25

The Sedition Act of 1798:

Answer 25

Led Jefferson to argue that states, not the federal government, could punish seditious speech

Question 26

What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?

Answer 26

He was executed

Question 27

The Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s

Answer 27

Criticized the Washington administration

Question 28

The Opponents of Hamilton’s economic plan:

Answer 28

Agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South

Question 29

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:

Answer 29

Was inspired by Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

Question 30

The “quasi-war” was a war of the United States against:

Answer 30

France

Question 31

Edmond Genet was a French diplomat who:

Answer 31

Commissioned American ships to fight the British

Question 32

Sacajawea was:

Answer 32

A guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition

Question 33

Who wrote that he hoped that the purchase of Louisiana would lead to the transplanting of all the Indians from east of the Mississippi to west of the Mississippi?

Answer 33

Thomas Jefferson

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT true about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

Answer 34

They never reached the Pacific coast

Question 35

Which of the following statements is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule?

Answer 35

Slave women had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners

Question 36

In its decision in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court:

Answer 36

Exercised the authority to overturn a state law that the Court considered in violation of the U.S. Constitution

Question 37

Which of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton’s proposals?

Answer 37

The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America’s future

Question 38

How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?

Answer 38

Almost everyone supported it at first, because the French seemed to be following in Americans’ footsteps

Question 39

Judith Sargent Murray argued that women’s apparent mental inferiority to men simply reflected the fact that women had been denied:

Answer 39

Educational opportunities

Question 40

After the War of 1812, Americans were compensated for lost slaves:

Answer 40

By an international arbitration agreement decided by the Russian czar

Question 41

The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against:

Answer 41

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Question 42

The treaty that ended the War of 1812:

Answer 42

Restored the prewar status quo

Question 43

Which of the following was NOT true of the United States in 1797?

Answer 43

Believing that political parties were wrong, Adams included Jefferson and Hamilton in his government, and they did not get along

Question 44

Jefferson’s Embargo Act:

Answer 44

Caused economic depression within the United States

Question 45

Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?

Answer 45

Benjamin Franklin

Question 46

Which of the following was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton’s financial program?

Answer 46

A national capital city with experimental manufacturing

Question 47

Benjamin Banneker was:

Answer 47

A scientist who helped survey the new national capital

Question 48

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who:

Answer 48

Preached a militant message to Native Americans early in the nineteenth century

Question 49

Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to:

Answer 49

Make the United States a major commercial and military power

Question 50

Which of the following is true of women and political life in the new republic of the 1790s?

Answer 50

Some women contributed to a growing democratization of political life by arguing for increased rights for their sex

Question 51

Which of the following is NOT true of the presidential election of 1800?

Answer 51

Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election

Question 52

Which of the following is true of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?

Answer 52

It was the only time in U.S. history that the president commanded an army in the field

Question 53

All of the following men held a high executive or judicial office during George Washington’s presidency EXCEPT:

Answer 53

James Madison