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