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11 The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy

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Question 1

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The most revolutionary development in the critical election of 1800 turned out to be:
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  • the massive grass-roots mobilization of voters by Jefferson's Republican Party
  • Jefferson's radical proposals for overturning the existing political system
  • the peaceful transition of power from one political party to its opponent
  • the electoral stalemate between Jefferson and his running mate, Burr

Question 2

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One Federalist policy that Jefferson quickly overturned was:
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  • The Judiciary Act
  • The excise tax
  • The Bank of the United States
  • The protective tariff

Question 3

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The case of Marbury v Madison established the principle that:
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  • Federal laws take precedent over state legislation
  • The President has the right to appoint the federal Judiciary
  • The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in the federal judiciary
  • The Supreme Court has the final right to determine the constitutionality of legislation

Question 4

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Jefferson was forced to reverse his strong opposition to maintaining any substantial American military because of:
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  • The spreading Indian attacks in the West
  • The threat to America posed by the British-French wars
  • The plundering and blackmailing of American shipping by North African states
  • The charge by his Federalist opponents that his dislike of the military was unpatriotic

Question 5

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Jefferson's greatest concern about purchasing Louisiana was:
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  • whether it was in America's interest to acquire such a vast territory
  • whether the cost was excessive for his small-government philosophy
  • how to defend and govern the territory once it was part of the United States
  • whether the purchase was permissible under the Constitution

Question 6

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The greatest political beneficiary of the Louisiana Purchase:
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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Aaron Burr
  • The Federalist Party
  • Napoleon

Question 7

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Although greatly weakened after Jefferson's election, the Federalist party's philosophy continued to have great influence through:
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  • the propaganda efforts of Federalists agitators
  • the Federalist control of the U.S. Senate
  • the Federalist Supreme Court rulings of John Marshall
  • Federalists sympathies within the U.S. army and navy

Question 8

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The Republicans' failure to impeach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase established the principle that:
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  • the deliberation of Supreme Court justices were absolutely confidential
  • presidents could appoint, but not remove Supreme Court justices
  • impeachment should not be used as a political weapon to overturn Supreme Court decisions
  • the constitutional power of impeachment was almost impossible to carry out

Question 9

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Jefferson military policy and budgets were centered on:
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  • a large naval force that could compete with the British Navy
  • several hundred small gunboats that could protect American shores without provoking international wars
  • a strong system of forts along the coast and across the frontier West
  • effectively training and equipping the state militias so they could be called into service if needed

Question 10

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A key event that forced Napoleon to abandon his dreams of a French New World empire and instead sell Louisiana to the United States was:
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  • a successful slave revolt that overthrew French rule in Santo Domingo
  • the widespread Spanish rebellion against French imperial rule
  • the growing American military threat to seize New Orleans by force
  • the failed rebellion of the French population in Canada against British rule

Question 11

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Which of the following was NOT among the consequences of the Louisiana Purchase:
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  • The geographical and scientific discoveries of the Lewis and Clark expedition
  • The weakening of the power of the presidency in foreign affairs
  • The pursuit of isolationism as America's primary foreign policy outlook
  • The precedent of incorporating foreign territory into the US through peaceful purchase

Question 12

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Jefferson's Embargo Act provided that:
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  • America would not trade with Britain until it ended impressment
  • American goods could be carried only in American ships
  • America would sell no military supplies to either warring nation, Britain or France
  • America would prohibit all foreign trade

Question 13

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A crucial foreign policy goal for many war hawks in the War of 1812 was the:
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  • end of all Spanish colonization in the Americas
  • conquest and settlement of Texas
  • destruction of the British Navy
  • conquest of Spanish Florida

Question 14

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Besides creating a pan-Indian military alliance against white expansion, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet) urged American Indians to:
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  • resist the whites' culture and alcohol and revive traditional Indian cultures
  • abandon their tribes and develop a single Indian language and government
  • demonstrate their legal ownership of the lands that whites were intruding upon
  • adopt white culture and technology as a way of resisting further white expansion

Question 15

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President Madison's primary goal in asking Congress to declare war against Britain in 1812 was to:
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  • restore confidence in America's republican experiment by fighting against British disrespect for American rights
  • halt Tecumseh's successful Indian revolt and alliance with the British
  • end the British practice of impressing American seamen into the British navy
  • reinforce the Republican party's patriotism and undermine Federalist power in New England
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