Deck 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Wilkinson

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Toussaint L'Ouverture

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Marshall

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sally Hemings

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Clark

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Meriwether Lewis

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sacajawea

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Callender

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Aaron Burr

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tenskwatawa ("the Prophet")

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Jefferson

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Madison

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Monroe

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tecumseh

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Zebulon Pike

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Marbury

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Albert Gallatin

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pasha of Tripoli

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert R.Livingston

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Orders in Council

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Barbary States

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"peaceful coercion"

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of the Thames

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Shawnees

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
deposit privileges

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Santo Domingo

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
war hawks

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Austerlitz

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"packing" of the courts

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"whispering campaigns"

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
judicial review

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Trafalgar

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"slave power"

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Corps of Discovery

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Macon's Bill No.2

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impressment

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
patronage

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Henry Harrison

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Judiciary Act of 1801

Question 41

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was most remarkable because it

A) finally brought the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to the White House.
B) marked the peaceful, orderly transfer of power based on election results accepted by both rival parties.
C) enabled poor farmers and the working class to overthrow the American elite.
D) brought the principles of the French Revolution to America.
E) occurred with violence in only a few places.

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louisiana Purchase

Question 43

As president,Thomas Jefferson learned that many of the political principles he had promoted

A) were not really that admirable.
B) had to be set aside under the pressure of political realities.
C) had to be fought for even against members of his own party.
D) were being subverted by Federalist judges.
E) were inconsistent with the Constitution.

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marbury v.Madison

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Embargo Act of 1807

Question 47

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from

A) the South and West.
B) the middle Atlantic states.
C) the cities.
D) the upper classes.
E) the states of New England.

Question 48

In the election of 1800,the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of

A) packing the courts with "midnight judges."
B) having had several mistresses while serving as a diplomat in France.
C) being a Catholic in secret.
D) secretly encouraging Aaron Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton.
E) engaging in sexual relations with one of his slaves.

Question 49

What was peculiar about the election of 1800?

A) The Federalists won despite widespread anger at the Alien and Sedition Acts.
B) The Electoral College was caught up in a voter fraud scandal.
C) A strange deadlock led to the election being decided in the House of Representatives.
D) A technicality to a tie, which was broken by the Supreme Court.
E) The election provoked a fatal duel between Vice President-elect Burr and Alexander Hamilton.

Question 50

What was perhaps the greatest problem that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800?

A) Fears that the Alien and Sedition Acts were only the first assaults on American freedoms
B) The serious economic recession caused by international turmoil
C) Public frustration at Adams's refusal to take the country to war against
D) The continuing public resentment of Federalist pro-business policies
E) The stories circulating about Adams's relationship with a slave woman

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Naturalization Law of 1802

Question 52

Thomas Jefferson believed that his mission as president was to

A) return to the original spirit of the revolution.
B) end the republican experiment in government.
C) encourage the growth of the federal government.
D) end slavery.
E) support the establishment of a strong army and navy.

Question 53

Why did some Northern critics label Jefferson as a "Negro President"?

A) Because he was rumored to have had sexual relations with one of his slaves
B) Because he strongly supported abolition of slavery
C) Because he refused to intercede in the successful slave rebellion in Santo Domingo
D) Because he was rumored to have slave ancestors
E) Because he would not have won the presidency without the three-fifths rule for counting the slave population

Question 54

Thomas Jefferson believed that under the Federalists virtue had

A) decayed.
B) blossomed.
C) been only adequately defended.
D) proved its worth as a national value.
E) masked the underlying problems of republicanism.

Question 55

Who played a crucial role in securing the state of New York in the 1800 election of Thomas Jefferson?

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Aaron Burr
C) John Marshall
D) James Monroe
E) James Madison

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Revolution of 1800"

Question 57

With Thomas Jefferson's election as president,the Federalist Party

A) grew stronger and more unified.
B) revised its ideology to gain more supporters.
C) warned of the dangers of Jefferson´s decadent life-style.
D) began its slow decline.
E) extended the Alien and Sedition Acts indefinitely before turning over the reins of power.

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"midnight judges"

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chesapeake affair

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Tippecanoe

Question 61

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision was to

A) purchase Louisiana from France.
B) send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean.
C) drive the British out of the northwest forts.
D) purchase Florida from Spain.
E) form an alliance with Spain.

Question 62

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

A) applying Jeffersonian principles in all of his decisions.
B) asserting the doctrine that the Supreme Court was the final arbiter of the Constitution.
C) making the Chief Justice the administrator of all federal courts.
D) requiring the attorney general to test legal principles before the Supreme Court.
E) increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

Question 63

Jefferson´s principled stand against _____ made it difficult for the Democratic-Republicans to build a large and loyal political following.

A) excise taxes
B) slavery
C) patronage
D) large navies
E) lavish parties at the White House

Question 64

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to expanding the U.S.navy when the

A) pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States.
B) U.S. Marine Corps was established.
C) French seized control of New Orleans and Haiti.
D) British fleet began impressing American sailors.
E) growing China trade required naval protection.

Question 65

The case of Marbury v.Madison raised the question of who had the right to

A) commit the United States to entangling alliances.
B) impeach federal officers for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
C) declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
D) purchase foreign territory for the United States.
E) appoint Supreme Court justices.

Question 66

Why did Napoleon ultimately choose to sell all of Louisiana to the United States?

A) He had just conquered Santo Domingo and wanted to focus his energies there.
B) He was afraid that the Spanish might wage a new war to seize Louisiana.
C) He had a different strategy for attaining a New World empire.
D) He feared that if he held onto Louisiana, America might form an alliance with Britain.
E) He was concerned that Spain might complicate his plans by demanding the return of its former territory.

Question 67

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

A) preventing Napoleon from handing Louisiana back to Spain.
B) purchasing as much territory west of the Mississippi as they could get.
C) preventing Napoleon from fortifying New Orleans and St. Louis.
D) bribing the French foreign ministry into permitting Americans to deposit grain in New Orleans.
E) purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.

Question 68

What caused the intermittent war with Tripoli from 1801 to 1805?

A) A conflict over the supply of slaves in the triangle trade
B) A misunderstanding over the treatment of North African immigrants to the United States
C) A dispute over tribute payments to prevent pirate attacks on American ships
D) A failed coup in Tripoli forced Jefferson to intervene to defend democracy
E) A dispute over the impressment of American sailors by the Pasha of Tripoli

Question 69

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

A) left nearly all of them intact.
B) quickly dismantled them.
C) tried to redistribute them to the states.
D) attacked only the Bank of the United States.
E) vetoed any new tariffs.

Question 70

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

A) James Madison.
B) William Marbury.
C) John Marshall.
D) Samuel Chase.
E) John Jay.

Question 71

Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his

A) unswerving conformity to Republican party principles.
B) rigid attention to formal protocol at White House gatherings.
C) informality, simplicity, and frugality of style.
D) clumsiness in courting Congressional leaders.
E) invitation of the rowdy masses into White House gatherings.

Question 72

The legal precedent for judicial review was established when

A) the House of Representatives impeached Justice Samuel Chase.
B) the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional.
C) Congress repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801.
D) President Adams appointed several "midnight judges" to the federal courts.
E) the Supreme Court challenged the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Question 73

Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because they

A) considered the appointed men to be unsuitable.
B) believed that the appointments were unconstitutional.
C) did not want a showdown with the Supreme Court.
D) saw it as the defeated Federalist party's attempt to entrench itself in the government.
E) opposed lifetime appointments for federal judges.

Question 74

The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

A) America's overthrow of the Tripoli government.
B) a substantial defeat of the main American fleet.
C) a peace treaty in 1805.
D) the French colonial conquest of North Africa.
E) the mediation of Islamic religious authorities.

Question 75

Thomas Jefferson saw large navies as dangerous because

A) they were generally more costly.
B) they were more likely to start a war.
C) they were harder to subject to civilian control.
D) they could embroil the Republic in costly and corrupting wars far from America's shores.
E) they were more easily taken over by foreign navies.

Question 76

Marbury v.Madison was an implicit rebuke to _____,who argued in _____ that individual states held the final authority to determine the meaning of the Constitution.

A) Patrick Henry; the Virginia Resolution
B) Thomas Jefferson; the Kentucky Resolution
C) James Madison; the Bill of Rights
D) John Adams; the Massachusetts Constitution
E) George Washington; the Northwest Ordinance

Question 77

How did Jefferson´s victory in 1800 actually work to weaken the Democratic-Republicans as a party?

A) Jefferson's failure, once in office, to challenge most Federalist programs caused rifts among Democratic-Republicans.
B) Jefferson´s poor governing ability ruined the party´s chances to stay in power.
C) With Jefferson's victory, Democratic-Republicans lost its shared goal of defeating its Federalist rivals.
D) After losing, Federalists rallied in opposition to Jefferson and came roaring back as the stronger, more unified party of the two.
E) Aaron Burr, Jefferson´s running mate in his first term, became a notorious murderer and damaged the Democratic-Republican party´s reputation.

Question 78

Thomas Jefferson´s restraint as president regarding many Federalist policies helped pave the way for

A) a resurgence of the Federalist party.
B) the permanence of a two-party system in American political life.
C) the Louisiana Purchase.
D) the emergence of a third party to advocate a purer form of democracy.
E) peace with Britain in his second term.

Question 79

When and why did Thomas Jefferson say,"We are all Republicans,we are all Federalists"?

A) In his remarks to Congress calling for an embargo, to encourage broad support
B) In his most famous campaign speech, to throw Federalists off by striking a conciliatory tone
C) In his inaugural address, to allay Federalist concerns that all of their programs would be cast aside
D) In his speech announcing the Louisiana Purchase, to stress the importance of the new territory to all Americans
E) In his memoirs, looking back at the bitter political divisions of the late 1700s and early 1800s

Question 80

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large professional armies because they

A) were further from the people than the part-time militia.
B) always developed a destructive rivalry with the navy.
C) could be used to establish a dictatorship.
D) created an elite and arrogant officer corps.
E) might establish a military-industrial complex.