Early Presidents Quiz 1800- 1812

Question 1

What are precedents?

Answer 1

actions that will be followed in future situations

Question 2

why did Washington create a cabinet?

Answer 2

to advise the president

Question 3

What is the name of the document that George Washington made?

Answer 3

Farewell Address

Question 4

What were the two things Washington did not want America to do?

Answer 4

form party alliances and form alliances with foreign countries

Question 5

Who was the second president?

Answer 5

John Adams

Question 6

What made John Adams unpopular?

Answer 6

XYZ affair and the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Question 7

Who was the third president?

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson

Question 8

What did Jefferson believe about the government?

Answer 8

reducing the power and size of it

Question 9

In the election of 1800, who ran?

Answer 9

Adams and Burr

Question 10

Where was the Hamilton vs Burr duel?

Answer 10

Weehawken, Nj

Question 11

What court case did this result in?

Answer 11

Marbury vs. Madison

Question 12

Who did we buy the Louisiana territory from?

Answer 12

Napoleon

Question 13

How much was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 13

$15 million

Question 14

Who inspired people to start moving westward?

Answer 14

Lewis and Clark

Question 15

What were the name of the pirates?

Answer 15

Barbary Pirates

Question 16

Why did Tripoli demand war?

Answer 16

Because the British demanded more money from the U.S. but the U.S. refused

Question 17

What does impressment mean?

Answer 17

forcing people to serve in military

Question 18

What does the Embargo Act do?

Answer 18

prohibits trade with all foreign countries

Question 19

What act did the U.S. make after the Embargo act?

Answer 19

Nonintercourse act which prohibits trade with only France and Britain

Question 20

What did the war hawks want?

Answer 20

they wanted war with Britain

Question 21

What does nationalism mean?

Answer 21

feeling that one’s country is superior to another

Question 22

what does patriotism mean?

Answer 22

affection towards one country

Question 23

Which lake did Oliver Hazard Perry defeat the British one?

Answer 23

Lake Eric

Question 24

Who did Andrew Jackson defeat?

Answer 24

the Creeks at the Battle of the Horse Bend

Question 25

who was the second president

Answer 25

John Adams

Question 26

Who was the third president?

Answer 26

thomas jefferson

Question 27

who was the fourth president?

Answer 27

James Madison

Question 28

What happened during the British Offensive?

Answer 28

British attacked and burned Washington D.C.

Question 29

Who allegedly saved George Washington’s portrait from the White house?

Answer 29

Dolly Madison

Question 30

Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

Answer 30

Francis Scott Key

Question 31

how did the war end?

Answer 31

British decided it was too costly and unnecessary

Question 32

Treaty of _________ ends the war.

Answer 32

Ghent