APUSH 11-13
Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except
treaties with several native nations
As president, Thomas Jefferson's stand on several political issues that he had previously championed
was reversed
Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except
he underestimated Britain's dependence of American trade
Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because
it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the democratic republicans
Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his
moderation in the administration of public policy
Tecumseh argued that Natives should
not cede control of land to whites unless all Natives agreed
The difference in price between what Jefferson had authorized his negotiators to pay for NO 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 (D) Embargo Act
A,C,B,D
In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson won the state of New York because...
Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson
One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was...
Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France
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
Canada became an important battleground in the War of 1812 because
British forces were weakest there
Arrange the following events in chronological order (a) war hawks enter congress (b) declaration of war on Britain (c) embargo act (d) battle of Tippecanoe
C,A,D,B
British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in
Florida
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?
It more then tripled the size of the United States
The chief justice who carried out, more than any other federal official, the ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning a powerful federal government was
John Marshall
the most devastating defeat suffered by the British took place at the Battle of
New Orleans
Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only ___ from France
New Orleans and the Floridas
Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the
Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the US
Perhaps the key battle of the war of 1812 because it protected the US from full scale invasion and possible dissolution was the Battle of
Plattsburgh
Jefferson complained to his friend John Adams about what aspect of his life?
Responding to the many letters he received - 1267 in 1820 alone
Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the
South and West
Which of these does not describe the ways in which Americans responded to Jefferson's embargo?
Southern states promised not to enforce it and to break away from the Union
Who served as the crucial guide for Lewis and Clark?
The Shoshone woman Sacajawea
One result of the American naval victories on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812 was
a British naval blockade of the American coast
Thomas Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives when
a few Federalists refrained from voting
The American naval war with the Tripoli ended with
a peace treaty in 1805
President James Madison made a major foreign policy mistake when he
accepted Napolean's promise to repeal its trade restrictions
Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of
an overland trail to the Pacific
John Marshall, as chief Justice of the united states, helped to streghten the judicial branch of the government by
asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation, giving the Supreme Court the power to determine constitutionality
The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except
believers in a strong central government
To guard American shores, Thomas Jefferson
constructed two hundred tiny gunboats
Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they
could be used to establish a dictatorship
Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous than armies because they
could not march inland and endanger liberties
In order to purchase NO from France, if Monroe and Livingston failed in their negotiations, Jefferson...
decided to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain
Political cartoons lampooned the states that threatened to leave the Union at the Harford Convention by
depicting Great Britain welcoming them back with promises of nobility, goods to smuggle and plenty of molasses and codfish
The case of Marbury v Madison involved the question of who had the right to
determine the meaning of the Constitution
to deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, Jefferson ..
enacted an economic embargo
With Thomas Jefferson's election as president, the Democratice-Republican party...
grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power
Jefferson was conscience stricken about the Louisiana Territory from France because
he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional
Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the US for all of the following reasons except..
he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war
the Chesapeake incident involved the flagrant use of
impressment
Though Jefferson won the popular and electoral vote, a strange deadlock led to the election being decided
in the House of Representatives
The British attack on Fort McHenry
inspired the writing of "the star-spangled banner"
By 1814, the British strategy included all of the following except
invading the Delaware and Hudson Valleys
Thomas Jefferson's failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant that
judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved
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
Andrew Jackson sought to recruit free blacks to defend NO by appealing to the governor of Louisiana using all of the following arguments except...
many of the free men are idle and would benefit from a term of military service
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
When the united states entered the war of 1812, it was
militarily unprepared
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
The war of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in the United States history because
of the nation's apathy and national disunity
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 US would stop trading with the other
After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr
plotted to divide the US
America's campaign against Canada in the War of 1812 was
poorly conceived because itsplit up the military and ultimately a failure
the war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except
retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.
The Battle of New Orleans
saw British troops defeated by Andrew Jackson's soldiers and unleased a wave of nationalism and self-confidence
In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all the following except
secretly encouraging Aaron Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision was to
send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean
Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion
stimulated manufacturing in the US
Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except
support the establishment of a strong army
the performance of the united states navy in the war of 1812 could be best described as
surprisingly successful
One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonians after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was...
that it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently
At the peace conference at Ghent, the British began to withdraw many of its earlier demands for all of the following reasons except
the American victory at NO
Native American leader Tecumseh was in 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 the South
Once begun, the war of 1812 was strongly supported by
the West and the South
the battle of Tippecanoe 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 war of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in American history for all of the following reasons except that
the militia was never called up to supplement the regular army
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
Which wasn't true about the American regular army on the eve of the war of 1812
their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on the militia
Seafaring New England opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except
their strong trade ties with France
The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because
they needed more men
in 1812, James Madison turned to war
to restore confidence in the republican experiment
All of the following relate to question of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings except
today, most scholars believe that Jefferson fathered only one of Hemings children and that the other four had other fathers
The British policy of impressment was a kind of
diplomatic pressure
Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because
it was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the government
Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of
purchasing NO to make it secure for American shippers