APUSH Chapter 11

Despite Thomas Jefferson winning a majority of the popular vote and a majority of votes in the Electoral College during the election of 1800, a deadlock in the Electoral College led the election to being decided

in the House of Representatives.

The difference in price between what Jefferson had authorized his negotiators to pay for New Orleans and West Florida and what they actually paid for all of Louisiana was

$ 5 million

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Louisiana Purchase, (B) Chesapeake incident, (C) Burr's trial for treason, and (D) Embargo Act.

A, C, B, D

The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except A. believers in a strong central government. B. strict constructionists. C. protectors of agrarian purity. D. unmitigated opponents of the federal excise tax on whiskey. E. strong supporters of state's rights.

A. believers in a strong central government.

President Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that A. he underestimated the determination of the British. B. he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade. C. he overestimated the dependence of Britain and France on America's trade. D. Latin American republics opened up their ports for commerce. E. he miscalculated the difficulty of enforcing it.

B. he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade.

Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except A. a rich harvest of scientific observations. B. treaties with several Indian nations. C. geographical knowledge of the previously unknown region. D. a plausible American claim to the Oregon region. E. opening of the West to future exploration and trade.

B. treaties with several Indian nations.

Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that

Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business.

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) war hawks enter Congress, (B) declaration of war on Britain, (C) Embargo Act, and (D) Battle of Tippecanoe.

C, A, D, B

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase? A. Senators quickly approved the purchase. B. It had enthusiastic public support. C. It was the best real estate bargain in history - adding 828,000 square miles to the United States at three cents an acre. D. It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States. E. It cost $15 million.

D. It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States.

Which of these does not describe the ways in which Americans responded to Jefferson's embargo? A. The Federalist party gained new converts and was revived to fight it. B. New England threatened to secede from the United States. C. Farmers of the South and West were as adversely impacted by the embargos as their counterparts in New England. D. Southern states promised not to enforce the embargo and took steps to break away from the Union. E. Americans engaged in an illicit trade at the Canadian border and cursed it as "Dambargo."

D. Southern states promised not to enforce the embargo and took steps to break away from the Union.

In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except A. having robbed a widow of her trust fund. B. having fathered numerous mulatto children by his own slave women. C. being an atheist. D. conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the United States. E. having robbed children of their trust funds.

D. conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the United States.

The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except A. wipe out renewed Indian resistance. B. affirm the right of America to trade freely with the world, unencumbered by British imperial economic policy. ​C. demonstrate their American patriotism and bravery to other citizens, especially their Revolutionary era forefathers. D. retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C. E. revenge the British manhandling of American sailors.

D. retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.

Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reasons except A. he had suffered military misfortunes and setbacks on the island of Santo Domingo. B. he feared that British control of the seas would force him to cede Louisiana to the British, giving Britain an important strategic advantage in his fateful and protracted war with his rival for imperial dominance in Europe and across the world. C. he did not want to drive America into a political and military alliance with the British. D. mosquitoes carrying yellow fever had decimated thousands of French troops on Santo Domingo. E. he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war.

E. he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war.

Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except A. to return to the original spirit of the revolution. B. restore the republican experiment. C. check the growth of government power. D. halt the decay of virtue. E. support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States.

E. support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States.

Seafaring New England Federalists opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except A. the Northeast Federalists sympathized with England. B. they resented the Republican's sympathy with Napoleon. C. Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada. D. the war could result in more agrarian states in the West. E. their extremely strong trade ties with France.

E. their extremely strong trade ties with France.

All of the following accurately represent aspects of the historical and contemporaneous debate surrounding Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings except A. rumors that Jefferson fathered her mulatto children were used by his political opponents to discredit him in the 1800 presidential election. B. Jefferson consistently denied having had a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings throughout his life. C. as late as the 1870s, one of Sally's children claimed that his mother identified Jefferson as the father of her five children. D. in the late 20th century, DNA evidence showed a high probability that Jefferson fathered Sally's youngest son. E. today, most scholars believe that Jefferson fathered only one of Hemings children; the other four had other fathers.

E. today, most scholars believe that Jefferson fathered only one of Hemings children; the other four had other fathers.

The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who, more than any other federal official, was able to carry out the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning strengthening the power of the federal government was

John Marshall.

Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only ____ from France.

New Orleans and the Floridas

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his political support from the

South and the West

Who served as the crucial guide(s), aiding Lewis and Clark in their expedition through the Louisiana Territory?

The Shoshone woman Sacajawea

In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson won the deadlocked election because

a few Federalists, unwilling to elect Aaron Burr as president, decided to abstain from voting in the House of Representatives, throwing the presidential election to Jefferson.

The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to

a forced enlistment.

President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he

accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

an overland trail to the Pacific.

In 1812, President James Madison turned to war

because he came to believe that only a vigorous, aggressive assertion of American political and economic rights could demonstrate the viability of American nationhood and the republican experiment in the United States.

Following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr in 1806

conspired with an unsavory military governor of the Louisiana Territory, General James Wilkinson, to undermine the legitimate authority of the U.S. government and expand their new confederacy to Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida.

In an effort to improve the defense of America's coastal shores, Thomas Jefferson

constructed two hundred small gunboats.

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they

could be used to establish a dictatorship.

To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, President Jefferson

enacted an economic embargo that prohibited the exports of all goods from the United States, regardless of whether they were being shipped on American or foreign merchant ships.

The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of

impressment

With Jefferson's refusal to use the presidency to dispense generously patronage positions and offices in government to his political supporters, the Democratic-Republican Party

grew less unified even as the Federalist Party began to fade and lose power.

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.

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

it was an attempt by the Federalists, who had been defeated in the congressional and presidential elections of 1800, to maintain political influence in the federal government.

New England Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans.

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

left practically all of them intact.

During the War of 1812, the New England states

lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army.

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.

Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his

moderation in the administration of public policy.

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed.

Before he became chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall's service at Valley Forge during the American Revolution convinced him

of the drawbacks of feeble central authority.

Macon's Bill No. 2

permitted trade with all nations but promised that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the U.S. would stop trading with the nation that had not repealed its commercial restrictions on American trade.

In order to enhance the diplomatic leverage of the negotiations being conducted by American envoys James Monroe and Robert Livingston with Napoleonic France concerning obtaining American shipping access to the port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, President Jefferson

proposed to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain, against Napoleonic France.

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

purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.

As president, President Jefferson showed unexpected moderation and a conciliatory attitude toward his Federalist political opponent by

refusing to repeal the federal excise tax enacted by the Federalists.

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to

send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.

President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion

stimulated manufacturing i n New England.

One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonian Republicans after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was

that it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently.

Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of

the Thames.

By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from

the West and South.

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

the West and South.

The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 resulted in

the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy.

On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

the excise tax on whiskey.

The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

the peace treaty in 1805 with the pasha of Tripoli, costing merely $60,000 for the ransom payments of the captured Americans.

As chief justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that

the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.

The case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) established that the Constitution mandated that the Supreme Court and not Congress nor the president of the United States had the authority

to determine the meaning of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the

the strategic usefulness of employing significant numbers of agile coastal naval crafts became apparent in the U.S. Navy's defeat of the Barbary Coast pirates during the Tripolitian War.

Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous than armies because they

they could not march inland and endanger liberties.

The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because

they needed more military conscripts for their imperial military engagements around the world.