Give Me Liberty Ch. 8 Review Quiz

Which of the following is among the more memorable passages of Jefferson's first inaugural address?

"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."

Who killed the first U.S. secretary of the Treasury in a duel?

Aaron Burr

The first U.S. coin to feature a real person was the image of

Abraham Lincoln.

The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.

False

The War of 1812 ended only after the British pledged to cease the impressment of American sailors.

False

The discoveries made by Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the West persuaded Jefferson to go ahead with the Louisiana Purchase.

False

The first contested presidential election pitted John Adams against James Madison.

False

The newly created Bank of the United States was originally a branch of the government under the suggestion of Alexander Hamilton.

False

"The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Frances Scott Key, commemorates what event in the War of 1812?

Fort McHenry withstood British bombardment

By 1798, the United States and what country were engaged in a "quasi-war" at sea?

France

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper chronological sequence?

Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man; Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Gabriel's Rebellion

The Barbary Wars were the United States's first contact with the Islamic World.

True

The Constitution makes no mention of political parties.

True

The Haitian Revolution renewed fears of a slave rebellion in the United States.

True

The Whiskey Rebellion reinforced Federalist beliefs in the need for a strong standing army.

True

The word "male" did not appear in the Constitution until after the Civil War.

True

While in office, some army officers suggested that President Washington set himself up as a dictator of the new country.

True

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.

False

As head of the Treasury department, Hamilton's ambitious economic program was originally only strongly opposed in the northern states.

False

Federalists felt the creation of such groups as the Democratic-Republican societies cemented the virtuous ideals of liberty.

False

In consequence of the December 1814 Hartford Convention, the Federalist Party grew in strength and vigor.

False

Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.

False

Mary Wollstonecraft's work called for greater access to education and paid employment for women while also fervently challenging traditional gender roles in America.

False

No one was ever convicted under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.

False

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.

False

The "Revolution of 1800" pitted the French against the newly incorporated American military.

False

The British were the main targets of the Sedition Act.

False

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions condemned state laws against seditious speech.

False

The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.

False

In the XYZ affair of 1797

French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

Which was not part of Fries's Rebellion of 1799?

John Fries, a local militia leader and auctioneer, was hanged.

The case that established judicial review was

Marbury v. Madison

Which of the following was not a significant feature of the War of 1812?

Northerners strongly supported the war; southerners strongly opposed it.

The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the

Republicans and Federalists.

On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter

Sacajawea

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, written respectively by Madison and Jefferson, attacked what federal law?

Sedition Act

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.

TRue

Which statement is true regarding the Republican Party under Madison and Jefferson?

The party had more faith in democratic self-government.

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.

True

After writing The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine was forced to flee to France.

True

As more American settlers moved west of the Appalachian Mountains, some Indians changed their position on assimilation and embraced the federal policy of "civilization."

True

In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.

True

James Madison opposed Congress even receiving a petition from slaves from North Carolina as he felt they had "no claim" on lawmakers' attention.

True

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.

True

Jefferson was the first president to begin his term in Washington, D.C.

True

Jefferson's embargo on U.S. exports proved an economic disaster for American port towns.

True

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."

True

One of Lewis and Clark's tasks was to record information about plant and animal life along their journey.

True

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.

True

The Hartford Convention

affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.

Which was not part of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's financial plan of 1790-1791?

cease the tax on whiskey

Initially welcomed in America, Edmond Genet's downfall occurred when he

commissioned American ships to attack British vessels under the French flag.

When Chief Justice John Jay was sent to Britain to stop impressment of American citizens,

he brokered a treaty that canceled the American-French alliance and recognized British supremacy.

The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?

in December 1814 by the Treaty of Ghent

"Impressment" as practiced by the British was

kidnapping sailors.

Which was not true of Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800?

led by Toussaint L'Ouverture

In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Americans tended to view Canadians as

monarchial and lacking in an understanding of liberty.

By 1807, at the time Congress enacted the Embargo Act, how many American sailors had the British impressed?

over 6,000

After Washington's inauguration, he proclaimed liberty and the republican model of government was dependent on the success of America's experiment in

self-government.

Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by

slaves.

"Millions for Our Defence Not a Cent for Tribute" was a motto that originated during

the War of 1812.

The "Second War of Independence" was

the War of 1812.

The only time in American history that the president has actually commanded an army in the field was during

the Whiskey Rebellion.

Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for

the new, permanent capital would be built in the South.

The "Revolution of 1800" was

the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.

With the Louisiana Purchase,

the size of the nation was doubled.

George Washington was elected the first president of the United States

unanimously by all sixty-nine electors.