1301 chapter 7
Which of the following was likely a Federalist in the 1790s?
A Boston merchant
The Rush-Bagot Treaty, negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1817, addressed which issue?
American and British naval forces in the Great Lakes
How did the French Revolution affect the American economy?
American merchants profited handsomely from the war that resulted from it.
Why did Britain impose a naval blockade on France in 1802?
Britain was at war with France and wanted to starve it into submission.
Which policy was consistent with Thomas Jefferson's vision for the nation's economic prosperity?
Cheap land from the public domain
Which of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's proposals did Thomas Jefferson and James Madison object to on constitutional grounds?
Creation of a national bank
Why did congressmen from Virginia and Maryland eventually agree to support Hamilton's plan that the national government assume the war debts of the states?
Hamilton agreed to build a permanent national capital along the Potomac River.
Which of the following caused two political factions to grow out of the Federalist party?
Hamilton's fiscal programs
How did Handsome Lake's religious revivals differ from other Native American belief systems?
He tried to combine Christian and Native American beliefs.
What did Alexander Hamilton want his financial program to accomplish?
He wanted to empower the central government by connecting its interests to those of the elite.
Why did President Jefferson ask the American minister in Paris to negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte over the Louisiana Territory?
He wanted to purchase New Orleans to secure navigation rights on the Mississippi.
What statement assesses the Embargo Act of 1807?
Imaginative but naïve, it hurt Americans more than anyone else.
Why did Native Americans object to the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War?
It gave their lands, without their consent, to the United States.
Why did Patrick Henry and others object to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's credit plan?
It would benefit only the wealthy.
Why did Alexander Hamilton advocate a declaration of war against France in 1800?
It would have boosted patriotism in the country and ensured the Federalists' reelection that year.
Why was the decision that Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in the case of Marbury vs. Madison (1803) an important precedent for the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court of the United States?
Marshall asserted the Supreme Court's authority to interpret the Constitution.
What does this engraving of an Indian log house tell us about Native American life in the early republic?
Native tribes readily adopted European practices that made sense for them.
Why did the United States officially declare war on Great Britain in 1812
The British refused to alter their policy of ignoring American neutrality and continued the impressment of Americans.
Why did the United States officially declare war on Great Britain in 1812?
The British refused to alter their policy of ignoring American neutrality and continued the impressment of Americans.
Which action devised by President Thomas Jefferson was an attempt to preserve American interests while avoiding war with Britain?
The Embargo Act of 1807
What did Robert Livingston, the American minister to Paris, call "the noblest work of our lives" in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
What name was eventually given to the American policy declared by President James Monroe that opposed European colonization in the Western Hemisphere?
The Monroe Doctrine
Which document set forth a "states' rights" interpretation of the U.S. Constitution?
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
What stimulated the expansion of demand for American cotton in the late 1700s?
The development of new machines for processing cotton
Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, believed what to be an "evil of the first magnitude"
The national debt
Hamilton's multiple-part program to revive the finances of the United States involved the paying off of old government securities, the chartering of a national bank, and what action regarding state debts?
Their assumption by the federal government
What was the significance of the trip west by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Their maps and journals provided valuable information
Why did Thomas Jefferson object to Alexander Hamilton's fiscal programs?
They went beyond a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Why did the first Congress add ten amendments to the Constitution?
They were meant to protect individual rights from the national government.
What impact did the Battle of New Orleans have on the United States?
Undercutting the Hartford Convention
Which national capitol was burned during the War of 1812?
Washington City
What immediately resulted from the signing of the Treaty of Greenville?
White migration to Ohio
Why did the British burn Washington, D.C., in 1814?
they were relating