APUSH Chapter 7 Learning Curve
Why did the economies of Georgia and South Carolina boom in the 1790s?
A cotton boom stimulated the expansion of cotton plantations there.
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 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
How did Handsome Lake's religious revivals differ from other Native American belief systems?
He tried to combine Christian and Native American beliefs.
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 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.
Who was the skilled secretary of state who helped to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, negotiated for the acquisition of Florida from Spain, and negotiated the boundary between the United States and Canada with Britain?
John Quincy Adams
What is evidence of the greater power enjoyed by women among eastern woodland Native American societies?
Land and cultivation rights were passed through the female line.
Why was the decision that Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in the case of Marbury v. 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
Despite a defeat in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in northern Ohio, the Western Confederacy remained strong enough to forge which compromise?
The Treaty of Greenville
What was the outcome of the national government's new excise tax that pushed western Pennsylvania farmers toward rebellious protests in 1794?
The excise tax on spirits raised the price on corn whiskey.
Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, believed what to be an "evil of the first magnitude"?
The national debt.
Why was the Whiskey Rebellion especially frightening to Federalists?
The rebels looked to the French Revolution for inspiration.
What was a consequence in the 1790s of the war in Europe that resulted from the French Revolution?
The war in Europe brought prosperity to American merchants.
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.
What immediately resulted from the signing of the Treaty of Greenville?
White migration to Ohio.
