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According to the text, what three components did the Jeffersonian Democrats say they were guardians of? |
Agrarian purity, liberty, and states’ rights |
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What is meant by the term political “stump”? |
The system of giving many speeches. |
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What mistake did Alexander Hamilton make concerning the re-election of John Adams (if he really wanted Adams to get re-elected)? |
Was very indiscreet as to attack the president in a privately printed pamphlet, which Jefferson published. |
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Who is responsible for the following quote: “Timid men…prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty” |
Thomas Jefferson |
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What does the quote mean in #4? |
We will put up with a lot before we decide to change course. |
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What was the name of John Adams’ seamen for the new American Navy? |
John Adams’ Jackasses |
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Who eventually will be considered the father of our modern Navy? (hint: 1880s) |
Chester A. Arthur |
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Who was Sally Hemmings? |
Thomas Jefferson’s slave that he might have had relations with. She was the half sister of Thomas Jefferson’s wife that had died. |
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What happened in the Election of 1800? How was it resolved? |
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in the Electoral College and no one had a majority of the Electoral votes. This meant that the election of the President would be decided by the House of Representatives (each state getting one vote). There were 36 votes taken in the House of Representatives (controlled by the outgoing Federalists). Hamilton convinced Delaware to abstain allowing Jefferson to defeat Burr 10 – 4 – 2. |
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Why did Jefferson call the election of 1800 the 2nd American Revolution? |
The election represented a return to what he considered the original spirit of the Revolution (check the growth of Governmental power, and halt the decay of virtue. |
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A switch of how many votes in New York would have thrown the election to Adams? |
250 |
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What else was “revolutionary” concerning the results of the 1800 Presidential election—different from the 2000 election, sort of? |
The peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of an election whose results all parties accepted. |
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Who was known as “the Red Fox”? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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What tradition did Jefferson begin after his 1st report to Congress (which will last for 112 years)? |
Sending a message to Congress and read by a clerk in Congress |
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Why did he start this tradition? |
Not a good speaker |
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What did Jefferson learn about his bookish theories? |
The ideas work out differently when put into the practice of the noisy arena of practical politics. |
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The Federalists were guilty of political patronage. What is meant by political patronage? |
Appointing officials based upon what they have done for party politics or the candidates campaign |
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What did the Judiciary Act of 1801 create? Why was this enacted by the Democratic-Republican Congress? |
16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices. It helped to counter balance the midnight appoints by the Adams administration. |
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In filling the many open positions in the judiciary, what is the nickname given to these Adams’s appointments? |
Midnight appointments |
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Who will be the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the SCOTUS case Marbury v Madison? |
John Marshall |
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What relation was the Chief Justice to President Jefferson? |
2nd Cousin |
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What question did Marbury v Madison answer? Who was the victor in Marbury v. Madison? |
Who had the final authority to determine the meaning of the Constitution; Madison won, but the Supreme Court established Judicial Review which made the Court much stronger. |
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What principle of the Constitution will be established in Marbury v Madison? |
Judicial Review |
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As revenge for the decision in Marbury v Madison what did the Jeffersonians do in retaliation? |
Tried to have Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase impeached |
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Was the outcome of the Jeffersonians effort successful? |
No |
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Name the four Barbary States? |
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli |
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Where did Jefferson dispatch the infant American navy too fight the pirates? |
“Shores of Tripoli” |
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What was a “Jeffs”? |
A small frail vessel used in the American Navy in the early 1800s |
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How did France acquire the Louisiana territory from Spain? |
Napoleon induced the king of Spain to cede the land instead of invasion by the French |
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What two developments led Napoleon to sell the Louisiana territory? |
He failed in his efforts to reconquer the sugar-rich island of Santo Domingo; Napoleon was about to end his twenty-month lull in his deadly conflict with Britain |
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What other motive did Napoleon have in selling the Louisiana territory to the Americans? |
He hoped that one day America would be a military and naval power that would thwart the ambitions of the lordly British in the New World |
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Who was Toussaint LOuverture? |
Indirectly, he did much to set up the sale of Louisiana to the US by leading exslaves in the resistance against the French in Santo Domingo |
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Who did Jefferson send to France to negotiate with Napoleon? |
Robert Livingston |
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What amount did Jefferson OK for the purchase of the LA territory? Final Price? |
10 million; 15 million (3 cents an acre) |
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What did the LA territory do to the size of the US? |
Doubled the size |
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Why did Jefferson hesitate in passing along the treaty to the Senate concerning the purchase of the Louisiana territory? |
He wasn’t sure if he had the Constitutional right to make the purchase |
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Who will Jefferson send out to explore the newly acquired territory? Who was their guide? |
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; Sacagawea (York is Clark’s slave) |
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This explorer will trek into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1805-06 and the next year he will venture into the southern portion of the Louisiana territory, where he sighted the Colorado peak that bears his name. |
Zebulon Pike |
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What plot did Aaron Burr join with a group of Federalists which Alexander Hamilton will expose? |
A plot to have New England secede from the US |
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What will be the consequence of this exposition by Hamilton? |
He will be challenged to a duel and will lose |
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Why was Aaron Burr tried for treason in 1806? Why was he acquitted? |
He tried to bring part of the Western US into Spanish hands. He only had the intent—no overt acts. |
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After being acquitted, what did Burr do? |
Fled to Europe and requested Napoleon make peace with Britain and launch a joint invasion of America—NICE! |
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What consequence did the Orders in Council have on American shipping? |
Closed the ports to American vessels |
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What happened in the Chesapeake incident? |
A British warship fired three devastating broadsides at close range, killing three Americans and wounding eighteen. The Four deserters were dragged away, and the bloody hulk limped back to port |
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What act will hastily be passed by Congress in 1807 which will prove to be detrimental to Jefferson’s presidency? |
Embargo Act of 1807 |
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Which area of commerce which the Jeffersonians were trying to protect, ended up hurting? |
New England |
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What will the protective embargo do to the modern American industrial might? |
It will strengthen the industries which is opposite of what Jefferson wanted—it’s what Hamilton wanted (Jefferson’s rival) |
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What will be the dismantled version of James Madison’s Non-Intercourse Act of 1809? |
Macon’s Bill No. 2 |
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What did this Bill do? |
It said that if Britain or France repealed its commercial restrictions, America would restore its embargo against the nonrepealing nation. |
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Which country will be the 1st to restore America’s commercial trade? |
France |
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What did Madison hope the British would do concerning Macon’s Bill? |
Revoke the Orders in Council |
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What was the British response to the Bill? |
Refused to revoke the Orders in Council |
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What was Madison’s reaction to British response to Macon’s Bill No. 2? What was his fear? |
Reestablished the embargo. He thought the decision meant the end of American neutrality and was the final step toward war with Britain |
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The young hotheads from the South and West were better known as___________ by their Federalist opponents. |
War Hawks |
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In what battle will future President William Henry Harrison gather accolades for defeating a band of Shawnee Indians? What great Shawnee Indian will be defeated? |
Battle of Tippecanoe; Tecumseh |
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What was the curse of Tecumseh (actually his brother Tenskwatawa) concerning the Presidency of the United States (not in book)? |
Every president elected on the Zero year will be assassinated or die in office starting with Harrison. It will come true from Harrison (1840) thru Kennedy (1960) |
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What war is also known as Mr. Madison’s War? |
War of 1812 |
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What was the leading cause of Mr. Madison’s War |
British impressment of American soldiers |
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Who was known as the Corsican butcher by the Northeast Federalists? |
Napoleon |
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Place the following in Chronological order: Battle of Tippecanoe, Marbury v. Madison, Madison elected President, Naval war with Tripoli, Lewis and Clark expedition, Jefferson defeats Adams for Presidency, United States declares war on Britain, Macon’s Bill No. 2 |
Jefferson defeats Adams, Naval war with Tripoli, Marbury v. Madison, Lewis and Clark, Madison elected President, Macon’s Bill No. 2, Battle of Tippecanoe, War of 1812 |
