The Shawnee chief Tecumseh responded to the many challenges facing Native Americans in the early republic by |
rejecting assimilation and proudly embracing Native American tradition |
What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he referred to his successful bid for the presidency in 1800 as the "revolution of 1800"? |
It represented a thorough yet peaceful repudiation of the Federalists |
Why did Federalist Alexander Hamilton support Jefferson over Aaron Burr as the presidential election of 1800 played out in the House of Representatives? |
He believed that Burr would prove far more dangerous to the republic should he be elected president |
The alleged plot by Gabriel, a twenty-four-year-old slave, to stage a slave rebellion led white Virginians to |
hang 27 black men for contemplating rebellion |
Why did Thomas Jefferson criticize Alexander Hamilton’s vision of government? |
Jefferson thought Hamilton’s plans simply allowed the rich to become richer |
According to Jefferson, the source of true freedom in America was the |
virtuous, independent farmer who owned and worked his land both for himself and for the market |
President Jefferson believed that which of the following was a proper task for the federal government? |
running the postal system, collecting customs duties, staffing lighthouses, conducting a periodic census, and maintaining federal courts |
Why did John Adams appoint his famous "midnight judges" during the final weeks of his presidency? |
It was a way to leave as many Federalists as possible in government positions as political counterweights to the incoming Republican administration |
What was the lasting effect of the Marbury v. Madison (1803) Supreme Court decision? |
The court claimed to the right to disallow a law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional |
Who led a group of four hundred Greeks, Egyptians, and U.S. Marines in a surprisingly successful attack on Tripoli’s second-largest city in 1805? |
William Eaton |
Why did Spain return its trans-Mississippi territory to France in 1800? |
Spain profited modestly from trade taxes on agricultural products |
Why did the United States express concern after Spain returned Louisiana to France? |
France was then under the rule of powerful expansionist Napoleon |
What happened when Robert R. Livingston approached the French about buying New Orleans? |
He purchased the entire Louisiana territory |
The exploration of the Spanish and Indian territory west of the Mississippi River by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark succeeded in |
collecting valuable information on the natural environment of the region |
Which explorer was arrested and taken to Mexico by the Spanish for traveling too far into the West? |
Zebulon Pike |
What were the terms of the alliance Thomas Jefferson established with the Osage Indians in 1804? |
Jefferson agreed to give them agricultural goods in exchange for providing the Osage with protection against Indian refugees displaced by American settlers east of the Mississippi |
What happened when the American government attempted to dominate the Comanche Indians? |
They became trading partners with Americans |
How did Congress respond to the sinking of the ship Chesapeake in June 1807? |
It banned all importation of British goods into the country |
How did the Embargo Act of 1807 affect the United States? |
In increased unemployment in the United States |
How did women in early-nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., play key roles in political circles? |
By influencing patronage |
In negotiating the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809, William Henry Harrison angered the Shawnee chief Tecumseh by |
negotiating with several Native American chiefs who had no legitimate claims to the land they seceded to the U.S. government |
What did the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 do? |
It prohibited trade with England and France and their colonies |
Most of the young congressmen known as War Hawks were |
from the West and South |
Why did congressmen from New England and some Mid-Atlantic states oppose war with Great Britain in 1812? |
They feared the war would hurt commerce |
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was marked by the |
death of over 500 Native Americans |
What did British soldiers do once they entered Washington, D.C., in 1814? |
The soldiers set fire to much of the city, including the White House |
While Andrew Jackson’s defeat of the British at New Orleans cemented his status as a military hero, what he did not know at the time was that |
negotiators had signed a peace agreement two weeks earlier |
What was the result of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812? |
The Treaty of Ghent settled few of the issues that had led to war |
How did the War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention affect the Federalist party? |
It died as a political force after opposing a popular war |
Which group suffered the greatest losses in the War of 1812? |
Indians |
In the early nineteenth century, the Anglo-American view of women was embodied in the legal concept of feme covert, which held that |
a wife’s legal existence was completely subsumed by that of her husband |
What did state legislatures do when faced with the opportunity to rewrite the laws regulating domestic relations? |
legislatures did little to change any laws relating to domestic relations |
By 1820, divorce in the United States |
was possible in most states |
Which activity was open to single women in every state in the early republic? |
paying taxes |
Why did slave marriages avoid the unequal power relationships characteristic of white marriages? |
slaves could not enter into legal contractual obligations |
Why was Jemima Wilkinson the best-known exhorting woman in the United States? |
She proclaimed her body no longer female or male and preached in public |
In 1820, the courses and reading lists at the top female academies |
resembled the courses and reading lists at elite male colleges |
Unlike theological seminaries that trained men for the clergy, Troy Female Seminary and Hartford Seminary prepared their female students |
to teach |
In the 1790s, which state became the first to enfranchise all adult males? |
Vermont |
Which of the following voting laws passed in many states during the early nineteenth century? |
The exclusion of felons from the voter rolls |
Why were James Tallmadge Jr.’s amendments to the Missouri statehood bill of 1819 controversial? |
Their ultimate effect would have been to make Missouri a free state |
How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 pass in the House of Representatives? |
17 northern congressmen voted with their southern colleagues to preserve sectional harmony |
Which territory did the United Sates obtain from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty? |
Florida |
In 1823, President James Monroe issued what became known as the Monroe Doctrine, a statement that the Americas |
"are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power" |
What complicated the presidential election of 1824? |
an unprecedented five candidates seeking the support of one political party |
Who served as unofficial campaign managers for the five candidates running for the presidency in 1824? |
the candidate’s wives |
What was Henry Clay’s "American System"? |
3 systems to promote American industry; strong banking system, a protective tariff, and a federally funded transportation network |
What event convinced Andrew Jackson that John Quincy Adams became president as the result of a "corrupt bargain"? |
Adams made Clay his secretary of state |
What undermined John Quincy Adams’s hopes for reelection? |
He lacked the political skills necessary |
By proposing federally funded internal improvements, scientific research, and a national university located in Washington, D.C., President John Quincy Adams believed he was |
picking up where Jefferson and Madison had left off, using the power of the government to advance knowledge |
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