Chapter 8 TRUE/FALSE

Jefferson was interested in the Louisiana Territory because he wanted to secure 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 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

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 Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 proved to Federalists that democracy in the hands of the ordinary citizenry was dangerous

True

Women were counted fully in determining representation in Congress, and there was nothing specifically limiting women's rights in the Constitution.

True

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

Most states in the Union supported the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions.

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 Republican Party of today started in the 1790s

False

The Revolution of 1800 was quite violent

False

When Thomas Jefferson became president, he was not interested in dismantling the policies that the Federalists had established

False