Chapter 8 True & False
Free trade and sailors' rights were the two issues that drew the United States into the War of 1812.
True
Jefferson's interest in the Louisiana Territory was because he wished to have permanent access to the port of New Orleans.
True
John Adams's acceptance of defeat in 1800 established the vital precedent of a peaceful transfer of power from a defeated party to its successor.
True
Most of the public government buildings constructed around 1800 in Washington, D.C., were built by using slave labor.
True
Newspapers and pamphlets were a primary vehicle for political debate in the early republic.
True
Slave artisans played a prominent role in Gabriel's Rebellion.
True
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa tried to revive a pan-Indian movement and unite against the white man.
True
The Jacobin clubs of Paris were an inspiration for the Democratic- Republican societies.
True
The Jacobin clubs of Paris were an inspiration for the Democratic-Republican societies.
True
The Twelfth Amendment required electors to cast separate votes for president and vice president.
True
The aftermath of the War of 1812 confirmed the ability of a republican government to conduct a war without surrendering its institutions.
True
Acre for acre, the Louisiana Purchase was not a bargain.
False
Canadians tried to rebel against Britain during the War of 1812.
False
George Washington wore the finest English clothes at his first inauguration.
False
Jay's Treaty abandoned any American alliance with Britain by positioning the United States close to France.
False
Louisiana's slaves enjoyed far more freedom under the liberty-loving United States than under the rule of tyrannical Spain.
False
Most states in the Union supported the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions.
False
Pocahontas served as Lewis and Clark's interpreter.
False
Seeing the events as an extension of their own progress of liberty, white Americans supported the Haitian Revolution and the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804.
False
The Battle of Washington, D.C., valiantly fought by the Americans, was a much needed victory.
False
The Embargo Act was devastating to the British and French.
False
The Revolution of 1800 was quite violent.
False
The U.S. military was well prepared for the War of 1812.
False
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 proved to Republicans that democracy in the hands of the elite citizenry was dangerous.
False
The journey from 1804 to 1806 of Lewis and Clark did not produce much valuable information.
False
When Thomas Jefferson became president, he was not interested in dismantling the policies that the Federalists had established.
False
