Chapter 11

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the

a. Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States.

Thomas Jefferson was elected president by the House of Representatives when

a. a few Federalists refrained from voting.

President James Madison made a major foreign-policy mistake when he

a. accepted Napoleon's promise to recognize America's rights.

When it came to the major Federalist economic programs, Thomas Jefferson as president

a. left practically all of them intact.

In the 1800 election Thomas Jefferson won the state of New York because

b. Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson.

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

b. C, A, D, B

The legal precedent for judicial review was established when

b. the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional.

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Louisiana Purchase, (B) Chesapeake incident, (C) Burr's trial for treason, (D) Embargo Act.

c. A, C, B, D

One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was

c. Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France.

With Thomas Jefferson's election as president, the Democratic-Republican party

d. grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power.

Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the

b. Battle of the Thames.

Before he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall's service at Valley Forge during the American Revolution convinced him

c. of the drawbacks of feeble central authority.

President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion

c. stimulated manufacturing in the United States.

Upon becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

c. the excise tax on whiskey.

As chief justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that

c. the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.

Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only —— from France.

a. New Orleans and the Floridas

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the

a. South and West.

The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in

a. defeat of the British.

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

b. an overland trail to the Pacific.

John Marshall, as chief justice of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by

b. asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation.

To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, Thomas Jefferson

b. hastily enacted an embargo.

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

b. he believed that the purchase was unconstitutional.

Thomas Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that

b. he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade.

Thomas Jefferson's failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant that

b. judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved.

During the War of 1812, the New England states

b. lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army.

Thomas Jefferson had strong misgivings about the wisdom of

b. maintaining a large standing army.

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

b. marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.

Macon's Bill No. 2

b. permitted trade with all nations but promised that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the United States would stop trading with the other.

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision was to

b. send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean.

By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from

b. the West and South.

The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because

b. they needed more men.

Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except

b. treaties with several Indian nations.

As president, Thomas Jefferson's stand on the political issues that he had previously championed

b. was reversed.

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

c. Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was chosen president by the

c. House of Representatives.

The chief justice who carried out, more than any other federal official, the ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning a powerful federal government was

c. John Marshall

To guard American shores, Thomas Jefferson

c. approved the construction of two hundred tiny gunboats.

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they

c. could be used to establish a dictatorship.

The case of Marbury v. Madison involved the question of who had the right to

c. declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.

The British policy of impressment was a kind of

c. forced enlistment.

Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

c. it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans.

Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his

c. moderation in the administration of public policy.

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

c. not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed.

The Chesapeake incident involved the flagrant use of

d. impressment.

The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except

d. retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.

In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except

d. supporting high taxes.

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

d. the West and South.

Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because

d. the appointment was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the government.

Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous than armies because

d. they could not march inland and endanger liberties.

Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States because

e. all of the above.

In order to purchase New Orleans from France, Thomas Jefferson

e. decided to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain.

After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr

e. engaged in a plot to separate the western part of the United States from the east.

Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except

e. support the establishment of a strong army.

One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonians after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was

e. that it is easier to condemn from the stump than to govern consistently.

Seafaring New England opposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except

e. their strong trade ties with France.

In 1812, James Madison turned to war

e. to restore confidence in the republican experiment.