Chapter Ten

Question 1

Explain how President Thomas Jefferson sought to apply the principle of republican simplicity during his first administration

Answer 1

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Jefferson walked the inaugural route
Wore plain clothes
No more weekly formal receptions
Scaled back Federalists building programs
Cut federal budget

Question 2

How did Jefferson attempt to undo the Federalist innovations of earlier administrations?

Answer 2

Reduce size of Army and Navy
Reduce national debt
Abolish federal internal taxes

Question 3

Why did Congress declare war on Greet Britain in 1812?

Answer 3

The War Hawks from the West and South sought to legitimize attacks on the Indians, and seize Canada and Florida
Impressment and Defend American Honor

Question 4

The Shawnee chief Tecumseh responded to the many challenges facing Native
Americans in the early republic by

Answer 4

proudly embracing Native American traditions.

Question 5

Why did American leaders place so much importance on keeping the issue of slavery out of national policy?
Part one???

Answer 5

Due to its divisiveness
Part one of response four

Question 6

Why had maintaining a sectional political balance become so important?
Part two-

Answer 6

The Constitution makes no mention of the legality of slavery
Within the 10th amendment it is a states issue
Article 6 “the supremacy clause” within the Constitution would allow a Federal law outlaw it
The sectional balance in the senate maintained

Question 7

3. Why did Federalist Alexander Hamilton support Jefferson over Aaron Burr as the presidential election of 1800 played out in the House of Representatives?

Answer 7

Hamilton believed that Burr would be more dangerous to the presidency

Question 8

The alleged plot by Gabriel, a twenty four year old slave, to stage a slave rebellion led white Virginians to

Answer 8

Hang twenty seven black men for contemplating rebellion

Question 9

Why did Thomas Jefferson criticize Alexander Hamiltons vision of government

Answer 9

Jefferson thought it promoted the interests of greedy speculators and profiteers

Question 10

According to Jefferson, the source of true freedom in America was the

Answer 10

Independent farmer

Question 11

Why did John Adams appoint his famous midnight judges during the final weeks of his presidency?

Answer 11

To leave as many Federalists as possible in government positions

Question 12

What was the lasting effect of the Marbury vs Madison Supreme Court decision?

Answer 12

The court claimed to the right to disallow a law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional

Question 13

Why did the United States express concern after Spain returned Louisiana to France?

Answer 13

France was then under the rule of powerful expansionist Napoleon

Question 14

What happened when Robert Livingston approached the French about buying New Orleans?

Answer 14

He purchased the entire Louisiana territory

Question 15

The exploration of the Spanish and Indian territory west of the Mississippi River by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark succeeded in

Answer 15

Collecting valuable information on the natural environment of the region

Question 16

How did Congress respond to the sinking of the ship Chesapeake in June 1807?

Answer 16

It prohibited all U.S. ships from traveling to all foreign ports

Question 17

How did the Embargo Act of 1807 affect the United States?

Answer 17

It increased unemployment in the US

Question 18

How did women in early nineteenth century Washington DC play key roles in political circles?

Answer 18

By networking through “calling”

Question 19

In negotiating the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809, William Henry Harrison angered the Shawnee chief Tecumseh by

Answer 19

Negotiating with chiefs who had no legitimate claims to the land they ceded to the US government

Question 20

What did the Non Intercourse Act of 1809 do?

Answer 20

It prohibited trade with England and France and their colonies

Question 21

Most of the young congressmen known as War Hawks were

Answer 21

From the West and South

Question 22

Why did congressmen from New England and some Mid-Atlantic states oppose war with Great Britain in 1812?

Answer 22

They feared the the war would hurt commerce

Question 23

The Battle of Horseshoe a bend was marked by the

Answer 23

Death of over 500 Native Americans

Question 24

What did British soldiers do once they entered Washington D.C. in 1814

Answer 24

The set fire to much of the city including the White House

Question 25

How did the War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention affect the Federalist Party?

Answer 25

The Federalist Party died as a political force after opposing a popular war

Question 26

Which group suffered the greatest losses in the War of 1812?

Answer 26

Indians

Question 27

Which of the following voting laws passed in many states during the early nineteenth century?

Answer 27

The exclusion of felons from the voter rolls

Question 28

In 1823, President James Monroe issued what became known as the Monroe Doctrine, a statement that the Americas

Answer 28

“Are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by an European power”

Question 29

What complicated the presidents election of 1824?

Answer 29

Four candidates sought the support of one political party

Question 30

What event convinced Andrew Jackson that John Quincy Adams became president as the result of a “corrupt bargain”

Answer 30

Adams made Clay his Secretary of State