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HIST 7A - Chapter 7 - The Jeffersonian Era

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Question 1

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Why did Jefferson want Lewis to thoroughly explore the Missouri river system?
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  • to provide for defense from European attackers
  • to set up religious mission stations
  • to identify transportation routes for trade
  • to search for sources of fresh water fish

Question 2

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Why was Jefferson interested in measurements related to the temperature and rainfall of the region?
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  • in preparation for export economies such as cotton
  • to judge the suitability for family dwellings and factories
  • to author a fuller description of the climate of the Americas
  • for future settlement by individual family farmers

Question 3

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A Vice President, Hamilton's greatest political rival; famous for a duel that took Hamilton's life is [blank_start]Aaron Burr[blank_end].
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  • Aaron Burr

Question 4

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A man who in 1793, invented the cotton gin is [blank_start]Eli Whitney[blank_end].
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  • Eli Whitney

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A Native American who experienced "rebirth" after years of alcoholism; he effectively preached a message of hope to the Iroquois, and ? is [blank_start]Handsome Lake[blank_end].
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  • Handsome Lake

Question 6

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A leading Federalist, prominent Virginia lawyer, had been John Adams's Secretary of State, and was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is [blank_start]John Marshall[blank_end].
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  • John Marshall

Question 7

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The author of a 1784 essay defending women's right to education is [blank_start]Judith Sargent Murray[blank_end].
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  • Judith Sargent Murray

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The belief of those who accept the existence of God but consider Him a remote being who, after creating the universe, withdrew from direct ? is [blank_start]Deism[blank_end].
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  • Deism

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A Kentucky site where, in the summer of 1801, a group of evangelical ministers presided over the nation's first "camp meeting" is [blank_start]Cane Ridge[blank_end].
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  • Cane Ridge

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The December 1814 meeting in Connecticut where Federalists from New England states met to discuss secession and their grievances is the [blank_start]Hartford Convention[blank_end].
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  • Hartford Convention

Question 11

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A wave of spiritual revivalism that swept the nation beginning in 1801 is the [blank_start]Second Great Awakening[blank_end].
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  • Second Great Awakening

Question 12

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A drastic measure enacted by President Jefferson that prohibited American ships from leaving American waters is called the [blank_start]The Embargo[blank_end].
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  • The Embargo

Question 13

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The Connecticut schoolmaster, dictionary author, and lawyer who argued that American students should be educated as Patriots is [blank_start]Noah Webster[blank_end].
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  • Noah Webster

Question 14

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The inventor who perfected the steamboat is [blank_start]Robert Fulton[blank_end].
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  • Robert Fulton

Question 15

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Shawnee chief who succeeded the Prophet as a leader of his people after the Battle of Tippecanoe is [blank_start]Tecumseh[blank_end].
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  • Tecumseh

Question 16

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A charismatic religious leader and orator who experienced a spiritual awakening in the process of recovering from alcoholism; his ? is called [blank_start]The Prophet (Tenskwatawa).[blank_end]
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  • The Prophet (Tenskwatawa).

Question 17

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A New Yorker who won wide acclaim for his satirical histories and and his powerful fables, creating such vivid character as Ichabod Crane is [blank_start]Washington Irving[blank_end].
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  • Washington Irving

Question 18

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Thomas Jefferson and his supporters succeeded in
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  • creating a program for universal education.
  • reducing the role of religion in American life.
  • arranging the greatest single increase in the size of the United States in its history.
  • fulfilling their ideal of a simple agrarian society in the United States.
  • purchasing Louisiana from Spain.

Question 19

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In the Republican vision of America, education was essential because
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  • schools were the best place to teach children to be good party members.
  • schools were where religious values were taught.
  • an ignorant electorate could not be trusted to preserve democracy.
  • women needed to be literate.
  • business leaders needed to be educated.

Question 20

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The work of Eli Whitney
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  • improved transportation in the South.
  • led to the decline of slavery, for fewer workers were needed to process cotton.
  • spurred the industrial revolution in the American South.
  • made the South a major textile-producing region.
  • led to the expansion of the cotton culture and slavery.

Question 21

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During his administration, Thomas Jefferson
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  • made peace with Aaron Burr.
  • used the Alien and Sedition Acts against the Federalists.
  • cut the national debt almost in half.
  • showed little interest in westward expansion.
  • doubled the national debt by purchasing Louisiana.

Question 22

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In the case of Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court
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  • denied Adams’ right to make “midnight judicial appointments.”
  • affirmed the Court's power to nullify an act of Congress.
  • confirmed the power of Congress to expand judicial authority.
  • upheld Adams’ right to make “midnight judicial appointments.”
  • ordered Madison to deliver Marbury’s commission.

Question 23

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The greatest accomplishment of Chief Justice John Marshall was that he
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  • refused to expand the power of the judiciary.
  • prevented a Federalist revival in New England.
  • stopped the growth of Republican power.
  • made the judiciary a coequal branch of government.
  • prevented New England from seceding.

Question 24

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Jefferson had reservations about buying Louisiana because
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  • he feared it would upset western Indian tribes.
  • he doubted his constitutional power to do so.
  • the Spanish claimed the territory as theirs.
  • he believed the asking price was too high.
  • New Orleans had few Americans living there.

Question 25

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Apart from the British, the real losers in the War of 1812 were the
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  • Canadians.
  • the French on the European continent.
  • Indian tribes in the Southwest and the Great Lakes region.
  • Spanish in Florida and Mexico.
  • Republicans in the West.

Question 26

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In the early nineteenth century, industrialization in the United States was hampered by an inadequate transportation system.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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The Louisiana Territory was organized on the same general surveying pattern as the Northwest Territory.
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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The Louisiana Territory was organized on the same general surveying pattern as the Northwest Territory.
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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Why did women become so involved in the Second Great Awakening?
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  • Why did women become so involved in the Second Great Awakening?
  • By encouraging women to lead prayer meetings and church services, it gave them new agency in colonial society.
  • It offered women new opportunities to participate in social and community life.
  • Its message of personal salvation appealed to women as more authentic than traditional practices.

Question 30

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Why did Napoleon offer the Louisiana Purchase to the United States?
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  • He wished to establish a military alliance with the United States.
  • He sought to preempt British designs in North America.
  • He sought to weaken the Spanish, who also claimed the region.
  • He lacked the resources to create an American empire.

Question 31

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Early explorers’ accounts encouraged what type of popular perception of much of the Louisiana Territory?
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  • as an impassable, heavily forested area
  • as a natural wonder, filled with potential
  • as an open frontier ripe for settlement
  • as an inhospitable, uncultivable desert

Question 32

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What territory did the Lewis and Clark expedition traverse in addition to the Louisiana Purchase?
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  • the Mississippi Territory
  • Texas
  • Oregon Country
  • the Indiana Territory

Question 33

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What territory did the Pike expedition traverse in addition to the Louisiana Purchase?
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  • Oregon Country
  • Texas
  • the Michigan Territory
  • the Mississippi Territory

Question 34

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The densest region of American population west of the Appalachian Mountains was adjacent to which river?
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  • the Mississippi
  • the Missouri
  • the Rio Grande
  • the Ohio

Question 35

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Approximately how much territory did the Louisiana Purchase add to the existing United States?
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  • It added only a small piece of mostly unusable territory.
  • It added about one-third.
  • It doubled the size.
  • It added about one-quarter.

Question 36

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Which American commander became a national hero after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans?
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  • Andrew Jackson
  • Oliver Hazard Perry
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Henry Clay

Question 37

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Where did the United States have significant early military success in the war?
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  • on the southeastern coast
  • in the backcountry of the Carolinas
  • on the Great Lakes
  • in New England

Question 38

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Jefferson advocated which of the following as the means to pay off the national debt?
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  • borrowing more money from France
  • sale of Western lands and customs duties
  • charging a tax on new immigrants
  • internal taxes

Question 39

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Jefferson used which power of the Federal government as his authority to purchase the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon?
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  • Jefferson used which power of the Federal government as his authority to purchase the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon?
  • the treaty-making power in the Constitution
  • Pinkney's Treaty
  • the Northwest Ordinance

Question 40

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Impressment was
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  • forcing Native Americans to go to the Caribbean as slaves
  • the invention of the new steam-powered printing press
  • the British practice of forcing American sailors who had been born on British soil to join the British Navy
  • forcing Americans to house and feed British soldiers in their homes

Question 41

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Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Embargo under Jefferson?
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  • it was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act, in which ships could now trade with all nations except Britain and France
  • was a treaty with France that guaranteed no interference with American shipping
  • it prohibited American ships from leaving the U.S. for any foreign port anywhere in the world
  • it created a nationwide serious economic depression

Question 42

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After Jefferson, who became the fourth President of the United States?
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  • Andrew Jackson
  • John Marshall
  • William Henry Harrison
  • James Madison

Question 43

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The "Turnpike Era" includes which of the following accomplishments?
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  • opening of western lands to public purchase
  • the construction of public buildings in Washington D.C.
  • Construction of the National Road, paved with crushed stone
  • the introduction of horse racing to America

Question 44

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Most people lived in towns and cities in America of 1800.
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  • True
  • False

Question 45

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The "War Hawks", who encouraged the War of 1812, were which of the following leaders?
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  • Congressmen Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
  • James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
  • Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
  • Governor William Henry Harrison and Charles Pinkney

Question 46

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Which of the following is NOT a reason for the war of 1812?
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  • the desire for Florida which was Spanish territory
  • expulsion of the British from the Great Lakes area, where they still held forts
  • the success of the Hartford Convention in New England
  • the need for access to the Gulf of Mexico

Question 47

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The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key as he observed the War of 1812 at
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  • The Battle of Plattsburgh in upstate New York
  • The Battle of Put-In Bay on the Great Lakes
  • Baltimore, in the Chesapeake Bay
  • The Battle of New Orleans

Question 48

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The Battle of Tippecanoe was
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  • a battle between British and American soldiers over a fort
  • a battle between the Indians and whites under leadership of William Henry Harrison
  • a battle between British and American forces in Florida
  • led by John C. Calhoun and captured territory in Canada from the British

Question 49

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The first President to reside in the White House in Washington D.C. was
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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • George Washington
  • John Adams

Question 50

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The award for the wildest hairdo among leaders of the United States in the early 1800s was
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  • Henry Clay
  • William Henry Harrison
  • John C. Calhoun
  • James Madison
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