APUSH American Pageant 16th Edition Chapter 11 The Triumphs and the Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

The difference in price between what Jefferson had authorized his negotiators to pay for New Orleans and West Florida and what they actually paid for all of Louisiana was

$ 5 million

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

A, C, B, D

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) war hawks enter Congress, (B) declaration of war on Britain, (C) Embargo Act, and (D) Battle of Tippecanoe.

C, A, D, B

The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who, more than any other federal official, was able to carry out the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning strengthening the power of the federal government was

John Marshall.

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

New Orleans and the Floridas

Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his politicalsupport from the

South and the West

In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson won the deadlocked election because

a few Federalists, unwilling to elect Aaron Burr as president, decided to abstain from voting in the House of Representatives, throwing the presidential election to Jefferson.

The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to

a forced enlistment.

Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except a. support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States. b. to return to the original spirit of the revolution. c. restore the republican experiment. d. halt the decay of virtue. e. check the growth of government power.

a. support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States.

President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American tradewhen he

accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.

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 a. British Canada and Spanish Florida were attractive and easily obtainable prizes of war. b. Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business. c. the orders in council stopped the flow of Western farm products to Europe. d. British impressment policies were an affront to American nationalism. e. the British armed Indians and incited them to raid frontier settlements.

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

In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except a. having robbed a widow of her trust fund. b. conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the United States. c. having robbed children of their trust funds. d. having fathered numerous mulatto children by his own slave women. e. being an atheist.

b. conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the United States.

Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reasons except a. he had suffered military misfortunes and setbacks on the island of Santo Domingo. b. he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war. c. he feared that British control of the seas would force him to cede Louisiana to the British, giving Britain an important strategic advantage in his fateful and protracted war with his rival for imperial dominance in Europe and across the world. d. mosquitoes carrying yellow fever had decimated thousands of French troops on Santo Domingo. e. he did not want to drive America into a political and military alliance with the British.

b. he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war.

In 1812, President James Madison turned to war

because he came to believe that only a vigorous, aggressive assertion of American political and economic rights could demonstrate the viability of American nationhood and the republican experiment in the United States.

The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except a. unmitigated opponents of the federal excise tax on whiskey. b. strict constructionists. c. believers in a strong central government. d. protectors of agrarian purity. e. strong supporters of state's rights.

c. believers in a strong central government.

Following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr in 1806

conspired with an unsavory military governor of the Louisiana Territory, General James Wilkinson, to undermine the legitimate authority of the U.S. government and expand their new confederacy to Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida.

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they

could be used to establish a dictatorship.

Thomas Jefferson saw navies as less dangerous than armies because they

could not march inland and endanger liberties.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase? a. It had enthusiastic public support. b. It cost $15 million. c. Senators quickly approved the purchase. d. It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States. e. It was the best real estate bargain in history - adding 828,000 square miles to the United States at three cents an acre.

d. It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States.

The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except a. revenge the British manhandling of American sailors. b. wipe out renewed Indian resistance. c. affirm the right of America to trade freely with the world, unencumbered by British imperial economic policy. d. retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C. e. ​demonstrate their American patriotism and bravery to other citizens, especially their Revolutionary era forefathers.

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

Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except a. a plausible American claim to the Oregon region. b. opening of the West to future exploration and trade. c. a rich harvest of scientific observations. d. treaties with several Indian nations. e. geographical knowledge of the previously unknown region.

d. treaties with several Indian nations.

President Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that a. Latin American republics opened up their ports for commerce. b. he overestimated the dependence of Britain and France on America's trade. c. he miscalculated the difficulty of enforcing it. d. he underestimated the determination of the British. e. he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade.

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

Seafaring New England Federalistsopposed the War of 1812 because of all of the following except a. the Northeast Federalists sympathized with England. b. the war could result in more agrarian states in the West. c. Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada. d. they resented the Republican's sympathy with Napoleon. e. their extremely strong trade ties with France.

e. their extremely strong trade ties with France.

With Jefferson's refusal touse the presidency to dispense generously patronage positions and offices in government to his political supporters, the Democratic-Republican Party

grew less unified even as the Federalist Party began to fade and lose power.

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

he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.

The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of

impressment.

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

left practically all of them intact.

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

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

Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his

moderation in the administration of public policy.

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

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

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

of the drawbacks of feeble central authority.

Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of

purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.

President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion

stimulated manufacturing in New England.

Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of

the Thames.

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

the West and South.

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

the excise tax on whiskey.

The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

the peace treaty in 1805 with the pasha of Tripoli, costing merely $60,000 for the ransom payments of the captured Americans.

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

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

The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because

they needed more military conscripts for their imperial military engagements around the world.

The case of Marbury v. Madison(1803) established that the Constitution mandated that the Supreme Court and not Congress nor the president of the United States had the authority

to determine the meaning of the Constitution.