AP U.S. History: Chapter 11
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
One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was
Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France
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
Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business
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
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?
It more than quadrupled the size of the United States
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 political support from the
South and the West
Which of these does not describe the ways in which Americans responded to Jefferson's embargo?
Southern states promised not to enforce the embargo and took steps to break away from the Union
Who served as the crucial guide(s), aiding Lewis and Clark in their expedition through the Louisiana Territory?
The Shoshone woman Sacajawea
Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of
The Thames
The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to
a forced enlistment
President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he
accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions
Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of
an overload trail to the Pacific
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
believers in a strong central government
Following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr in 1806
conspired with a 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
In the election of 1800, the Federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of all of the following except
conspiring with Aaron Burr to have Spain attack the United States
In an effort to improve the defense of America's coastal shores, Thomas Jefferson
constructed two hundred small gunboats
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
As president, President Jefferson showed unexpected moderation a conciliatory attitude toward his Federalist political opponent by
dismissing very few public servants for political reasons
To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, President Jefferson
enacted an economic embargo that prohibited the exports of all goods from the United States, regardless of whether they were being shipped on American or foreign merchant ships
With Jefferson's refusal to use 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
President Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that
he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade
Napolean chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reaons except
he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war
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
Despite Thomas Jefferson winning a majority of the popular vote and majority of notes in the Electoral College during the election of 1800, a deadlock in the Electoral College led the election to be being decided
in the House of Representatives
Thomas Jefferson and his political supporters opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because
it was an attempt by the Federalists, who had been defeated in the congressional and presidential elections of 1800, to maintain political influence in the federal government
New England Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because
it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans
Thomas Jefferson's failed attempt and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant that
judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved
When it came to the major Federalist economic programs, Thomas Jefferson as president
left practically all of the them intact
During the War of 1812, the New England states
lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army
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
Macon's Bill No. 2
permitted trade with all nations but promised that if either Britain or France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade
In order to enhance the diplomatic leverage of the negotiations being conducted by American envoys James Monroe and Robert Livingston with Napoleonic France concerning obtaining American shipping access to the port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, President Jefferson
proposed to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain, against Napoleonic France
Thomas Jefferson sent to envoys to France in 1803 was the essential goal of
purchasing New Orleans to make to secure for American shippers
The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except
retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.
Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to
send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa
President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion
stimulated manufacturing in New England
Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except
support the establishment of a strong army and navy to advance the imperialist ambitions of the United States
One of the first lessons learned by the Jeffersonian Republicans after their victory in the 1800 presidential election was
that it is easier to condemn from the stump than to government consistently
By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from
the West and South
Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by
the West and South
The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 resulted in
the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy
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
Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the
the strategic usefulness of employing significant numbers of agile coastal naval crafts became apparent in the U.S. Navy's defeat of the Barbary Coast pirates during the Tripolitian War
Seafaring New England Federalists opposed the War of 1812 because of all the following except
their extremely strong trade ties with France
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
All of the following accurately represent aspects of the historical and contemporaneous debate surrounding Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings except
today, most scholars believe that Jefferson fathered only one of Hemings children' the other four had other fathers
Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except
treaties with several Indian nations
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
John Marshall, as a chief justice of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by
asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation, giving the Supreme Court the power to determine constitutionality
