APUSH: chapter 8 (t/f)
The "Revolution of 1800" pitted the French against the newly incorporated American military.
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The British were the main targets of the Sedition Act.
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The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions condemned state laws against seditious speech.
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The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
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The War of 1812 ended only after the British pledged to cease the impressment of American sailors.
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The discoveries made by Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the West persuaded Jefferson to go ahead with the Louisiana Purchase.
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The first contested presidential election pitted John Adams against James Madison.
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The newly created Bank of the United States was originally a branch of the government under the suggestion of Alexander Hamilton.
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A result of the expanding factions within the new government, more citizens attended political meetings and the country experienced rapid growth of the American press.
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After writing The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine was forced to flee to France.
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In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.
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James Madison opposed Congress even receiving a petition from slaves from North Carolina as he felt they had "no claim" on lawmakers' attention.
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Jefferson and Madison felt the greatest threat to American freedom lay in the alliance of a powerful central government with an emerging class of commercial capitalists.
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Jefferson was the first president to begin his term in Washington, D.C.
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Judith Sargent Murray's argument was that women were capable of the same intelligence men possessed yet women were denied "the opportunity of acquiring knowledge."
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One of Lewis and Clark's tasks was to record information about plant and animal life along their journey.
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The Barbary Wars were the United States's first contact with the Islamic World.
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The Constitution makes no mention of political parties.
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The Haitian Revolution renewed fears of a slave rebellion in the United States.
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The Whiskey Rebellion reinforced Federalist beliefs in the need for a strong standing army.
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The word "male" did not appear in the Constitution until after the Civil War.
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While in office, some army officers suggested that President Washington set himself up as a dictator of the new country.
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After Washington's unanimous reelection in 1792, he wanted to run for president once more, but Congress had barred him from obtaining a third term.
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As head of the Treasury department, Hamilton's ambitious economic program was originally only strongly opposed in the northern states.
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Federalists felt the creation of such groups as the Democratic-Republican societies cemented the virtuous ideals of liberty.
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In consequence of the December 1814 Hartford Convention, the Federalist Party grew in strength and vigor.
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Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.
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Mary Wollstonecraft's work called for greater access to education and paid employment for women while also fervently challenging traditional gender roles in America.
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No one was ever convicted under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.
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President Thomas Jefferson refused to purchase the Louisiana Territory because it was an affront to his strict constructionist view of the Constitution, but Congress overrode his veto.
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The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.
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As more American settlers moved west of the Appalachian Mountains, some Indians changed their position on assimilation and embraced the federal policy of "civilization."
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Jefferson's embargo on U.S. exports proved an economic disaster for American port towns.
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Slave women residing in the area later known as the Louisiana Purchase had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners.
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The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution.
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