Question 1

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to

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A)   purchase Louisiana from France.
B)   send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.
C)   drive the British out of the northwest forts.
D)   purchase Florida from Spain.
E)   form an alliance with Spain. B

Question 2

The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 resulted in

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A)   a surprising military loss for the army of Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison against the Shawnee Indian confederacy forces led by Tenskwatawa, known as "the Prophet."
B)   a Shawnee loss and a Creek victory.
C)   a declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain.
D)   the expulsion of the British from Florida.
E)   the death of the dream of an Indian confederacy.

Question 3

Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that

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A)   the British armed Indians and incited them to raid frontier settlements.
B)   British impressment policies were an affront to American nationalism.
C)   Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business.
D)   British Canada and Spanish Florida were attractive and easily obtainable prizes of war.
E)   the orders in council stopped the flow of Western farm products to Europe.

Question 4

Why do the text's authors refer to the case of Marbury v.Madison (1803) as "epochal"? Describe the short- and long-term ramifications of the decision.

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Question 5

Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

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A)   moved the United States away from its democratic ideals.
B)   marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties.
C)   occurred after he left the presidency.
D)   caused America to do what the British had been doing for a generation regarding the election of a legislative body.
E)   came about despite strong opposition from top officers in U.S. Continental Army and the U.S. Navy.

Question 6

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

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A)   travel across the isthmus of Panama.
B)   an overland trail to the Pacific.
C)   settlement in the southern portion of the Louisiana territory.
D)   using Indian guides.
E)   developing harbors on the Pacific coast.

Question 7

In 1812, President James Madison turned to war

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A)   to guarantee his reelection.
B)   due to his extreme hatred of Great Britain.
C)   to fulfill alliance obligations with France.
D)   to fulfill alliance obligations with nationhood Spain.
E)   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. E

Question 8

Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except

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A)   a rich harvest of scientific observations.
B)   treaties with several Indian nations.
C)   geographical knowledge of the previously unknown region.
D)   a plausible American claim to the Oregon region.
E)   opening of the West to future exploration and trade. B

Question 9

Set the following statement in its historical context, "The day France takes possession of New Orleans we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Why was Thomas Jefferson so alarmed?

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Question 10

The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of

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A)   patronage.
B)   impeachment.
C)   judicial review.
D)   impressment.
E)   naval blockades.

Question 11

In an effort to improve the defense of America's coastal shores, Thomas Jefferson

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A)   built a fleet of large frigates and destroyers.
B)   signed a mutual defense treaty with Spain which also involved the purchase of Spanish naval vessels.
C)   constructed two hundred small gunboats.
D)   signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.
E)   signed a new mutual defense treaty with France.

Question 12

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:  ​
North America Following the Louisiana Purchase, c. 1803​
 
-____ Oregon Country

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Question 13

The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to

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A)   a naval blockade.
B)   an economic boycott.
C)   a forced enlistment.
D)   diplomatic negotiations.
E)   a formal declaration of war on the United States.

Question 14

By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from

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A)   New England merchants.
B)   the West and South.
C)   Federalists.
D)   the middle Atlantic states.
E)   southern states.

Question 15

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

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A)   never cede any Indian land to whites under any conditions or per any agreement with whites.
B)   move west of the Mississippi River.
C)   not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed.
D)   exchange traditional buckskin clothing for cloth garments.
E)   fight as individual tribes and not as a confederacy.

Question 16

Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of

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A)   Tippecanoe.
B)   the Thames.
C)   Horseshoe Bend.
D)   New Orleans.
E)   Fallen Timbers.

Question 17

New England Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

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A)   there were too many French immigrants and frontiersmen there.
B)   Canadian business would prove too competitive to New England Federalists' economic interests.
C)   it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans.
D)   they believed that the Canadians could never become Americanized.
E)   they feared that the hostile Indians who lived there would prove to be too difficult to suppress.

Question 18

Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of

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A)   preventing Napoleon from handing Louisiana back to Spain.
B)   purchasing as much territory west of the Mississippi as they could get.
C)   preventing Napoleon from fortifying New Orleans and St. Louis.
D)   bribing the French foreign ministry into permitting Americans to deposit grain in New Orleans.
E)   purchasing New Orleans to make it secure for American shippers.

Question 19

During the War of 1812, the New England states

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A)   supported the United States' war effort.
B)   lent more money and sent more food to the British army than to the American army.
C)   gave no support to either the Americans or the British.
D)   allowed their militias to fight wherever the federal government requested.
E)   declared their independence from the United States.

Question 20

To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, President Jefferson

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A)   declared war on Britain.
B)   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.
C)   declared war on France.
D)   enacted an economic embargo on the exports of all goods shipped from the United States to Britain, but merely raised the level of export duties (taxes)  on all goods shipped from the United States to France.
E)   concluded trade treaties with Spain and Holland.

Exam 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

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The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 resulted in

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Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that

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Why do the text's authors refer to the case of Marbury v.Madison (1803) as "epochal"? Describe the short- and long-term ramifications of the decision.

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Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it

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Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

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In 1812, President James Madison turned to war

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Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory yielded all of the following except

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Set the following statement in its historical context, "The day France takes possession of New Orleans we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Why was Thomas Jefferson so alarmed?

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The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of

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In an effort to improve the defense of America's coastal shores, Thomas Jefferson

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Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​ North America Following the Louisiana Purchase, c. 1803​ -____ Oregon Country

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The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to

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By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from

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Tecumseh argued that Indians should

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New England Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

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Thomas Jefferson sent two envoys to France in 1803 with the essential goal of

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