History Quiz 3.2

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True/False Jefferson's term of office was not quite the "revolution" he later remembered.

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True/False Napoleon trapped President Madison into declaring war against England.

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True/False Napoleon was anxious to sell the Louisiana Territory because he needed money to continue his war with England.

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True/False The Battle of New Orleans was the final, decisive battle that won the War of 1812.

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True/False The Embargo Act of 1807 was an effective tool in persuading England to change its policy toward neutral shipping.

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True/False The United States was poorly prepared for war because of the economic policies of James Madison.

John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay

War Hawks

Treaty of Ghent

What treaty ended the War of 1812?

Monroe

Who did President Jefferson send to France to negotiate with Napoleon?

embargo

an order of a government forbidding merchant ships to enter or leave its ports

blockade

control of who or what goes into or out of a place, especially by police

monopoly

exclusive control of a commodity or service

suffrage

the right to vote

boycott

to refuse to buy or use (a product or service); to join together against

Jefferson

"A wise and frugal government" was the goal that what man, as stated in his inaugural address?

Francis Scott Key

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Thomas MacDonough

Battle of Lake Champlain

Oliver Hazard Perry

Battle of Lake Erie

Andrew Jackson

Battle of New Orleans

impressed American sailors and seized American ships

England and France:

a wise and popular government in the United States

Jefferson's government was the beginning of:

The Americans gained the respect of other foreign nations. A new spirit of nationalism was created in the U.S. Native hostilities were suspended and westward expansion continued. The British agreed to stop interfering with U.S. trade.

List four ways in which the United States benefited from the War of 1812.

Marshall

Marbury v. Madison was the first of many important decisions made by what man during his thirty-five years as chief justice of the Supreme Court?

Gallatin

President Jefferson appointed what man as secretary of the treasury?

frontiersmen and farmers of the West and South who wanted to expand America's frontiers

The "War Hawks" were:

exert pressure on England after the Chesapeake Affair

The Embargo Act was an attempt to:

Chesapeake Affair

The practice by the British of impressing American seamen was brought to a head by the: