apush chpt 11
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.
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
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?
It more than quadrupuled the size of the United States.
Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of
an overland 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.
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.
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.
The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of
impressment
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.
Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reasons 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.
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.
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France lifted its commercial restrictions on American trade, the U.S. would stop trading with the nation that had not repealed its commercial restrictions on American trade.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 two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of
purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.
As president, President Jefferson showed unexpected moderation and a conciliatory attitude toward his Federalist political opponent by
refusing to repeal the federal excise tax enacted by the Federalists.
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 govern consistently.
By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from
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.
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.
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.