Hist 101 - Learning Curves Chp 7
Which U.S. general led the expedition to the Old Northwest and defeated the Western Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794?
"Mad Anthony" Wayne
Jefferson's notion of an international division of labor resembled an idea proposed by which political economist?
Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations
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
In exchange for placing the new national capital on the Potomac River, critics in Maryland and Virginia supported which of Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies?
Assumption of state debts
Why did Britain impose a naval blockade on France in 1802?
Britain was at war with France and wanted to starve it into submission.
What practice did George Washington, the first president, carry over from the national government under the Articles of Confederation?
Executive departments to run the government
How did the two significant early secretaries of the treasury, Albert Gallatin and Alexander Hamilton, differ in their approach to the national debt?
Gallatin wished to pay off the debt, while Hamilton favored only paying the interest due.
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.
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 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.
Which state did Thomas Jefferson lose in 1796, but was instrumental to his victory in 1800?
New York
Who would most likely have been Federalists in 1800?
Northern merchants and creditors
Which tribe was forced to surrender huge tracts of land to New York and Pennsylvania in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784?
The Iroquois
Where was support for the War of 1812 especially strong?
The South and West
John Marshall's defense of property rights was based on his interpretation of which clause in the Constitution?
The contract clause
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.
In general, why did Indians often reject the assimilation efforts of the U.S. government in the 1790s?
They did not want to repudiate the clan.
Why did Thomas Jefferson object to Alexander Hamilton's fiscal programs?
They went beyond a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What power did Chief Justice John Marshall assert for the Supreme Court in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
To declare an act of Congress unconstitutional
Jay's Treaty (1795) was so controversial because it
acquiesced to Britain.
In the political realignment that followed the War of 1812, known as the Second Party System, the Federalists
crumbled while the Republicans splintered into the Nationalist Republicans, who came to be known as Whigs, and the Jeffersonian Republicans, who came to known as Democrats.
Alexander Hamilton funded his fiscal program through excise taxes and
customs tariffs.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 ensured that federal judges would determine the meaning of the Constitution by
specifying that cases arising in state courts that involved federal laws could be appealed to the Supreme Court.