Ch 8 Review

Which of the following policies of President Adams was NOT a major point of partisan controversy?

his handling of the United States' relations with the Indians

The War of 1812 was ended when, and by what treaty?

in December 1814 by the Treaty of Ghent

Imprisonment as practiced by the British was

kidnapping sailors.

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

led by Toussaint L'Ouverture

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

over 6,000

In 1798, the United States was involved in a "quasi-war" with Spain.

False

Among the more memorable passages of Jefferson's first inaugural address is the following:

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

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

Aaron Burr

The Great War hero to emerge from the War of 1812 was

Andrew Jackson.

In the Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson led a coup against the administration of John Quincy Adams.

False

Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.

False

Lewis and Clark were guided by Pocahontas across the Bitterroot Mountains.

False

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

False

Alexander Hamilton shot Aaron Burr in a hunting accident.

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 to purchase it.

False

The "Revolution of 1800" was against the French.

False

The British were the main targets of the Sedition Act.

False

The Embargo of 1807 set the stage for vast economic prosperity in the United States.

False

The Haitian Revolution and Gabriel's Rebellion convinced large numbers of white southerners that slavery had to go.

False

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

False

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions put forth the idea of secession.

False

The War of 1812 ended only after the British pledged to cease the imprisonment 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 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"?

France

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 by Madison and Jefferson, respectively, attacked what federal law?

Sedition Act

Which was not true of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?

Six leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion were hanged.

Which of the following was NOT a feature of the emerging rivalry between Republicans and Federalists during Washington's presidency?

The two parties differed sharply on domestic affairs, but hardly at all on foreign affairs.

Which was not true of the Republican Party in the early republic?

They were more sympathetic to England than were the Federalists.

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

One of Lewis and Clark's tasks was to record information about the flora and fauna they encountered.

True

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

True

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

True

Which of the following was not a major development during Jefferson's presidency?

an act declaring all Indian lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River off-limits to white settlement

The "Second War of Independence" was

the War of 1812.

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.

Which of the following was NOT an underlying purpose of Hamilton's financial program of 1790-91?

to restrain industrial development

George Washington was elected the first President of the United States

unanimously by the electors of the electoral college.