Chapter 7 - The Jeffersonian Era

George Washingtons death

________ in 1799 was probably less a result of the minor throat infection that had afflicted him than of his physicians efforts to cure him by bleeding and purging.

Hamilton

________ had, as he had intended, increased the public debt and created an extensive system of internal taxation, including the hated whiskey excise tax.

Samuel Slater

________, for example, used the knowledge he had acquired before leaving England to build a spinning mill for the Quaker merchant Moses Brown in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1790.

Mason Weems

________, an Anglican clergyman, published a eulogistic Life of Washington in 1806, which became one of the best- selling books of the era.

New England

On December 15, 1814, delegates from the ________ states met in Hartford, Connecticut, to discuss their grievances.

American Revolution

The ________ weakened traditional forms of religious practice by detaching churches from government and by elevating ideas of individual liberty and reason.

Jefferson

In 1803, even before Napoleons offer to sell Louisiana, ________ helped plan an expedition that was to cross the continent to the Pacific Ocean, gather geographic facts, and investigate prospects for trade with the Indians.

cotton gin

The ________ not only changed the economy of the South, it also helped transform the North.

American ships

The Embargo prohibited ________ from leaving the United States for any foreign port anywhere in the world.

1790s

The origins of the Second Great Awakening lay in the efforts of conservative theologians of the ________ to fight the spread of religious rationalism, and to encourage church establishments to revitalize their organizations.

chief justice

The ________ of the United States at the time of the ruling was John Marshall, one of the towering figures in the history of American law.

early nineteenth century

The ________ saw a dramatic expansion of American shipping in the Atlantic.

Mercy Otis Warren

________, who had been an influential playwright and agitator during the 1770s, continued her literary efforts with a three- volume History of the Revolution, published in 1805 and emphasizing the heroism of the American struggle.

Burr conspiracy

The ________ "was in part the story of a single mans soaring ambitions and flamboyant personality.

1812

In the summer of ________, American forces invaded Canada through Detroit.

1807

The ________ war crisis following the Chesapeake- Leopard incident revived the conflict between Indians and white American.

University of Pennsylvania

The ________ created the first American medical school in the eighteenth century.

1801

In ________, Jefferson appointed Harrison governor of the Indiana Territory to administer the presidents proposed solution to the "Indian problem.

1805

In ________, at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British fleet virtually destroyed what was left of the French navy.

Robert Fulton

The inventor ________ and the promoter Robert R. Livingston were principally responsible for perfecting the steamboat and bringing it to the attention of the nation.

election of 1808

The ________ came in the midst of the Embargo- (1807) induced depression.

British navy

The ________- with its floggings, low pay, and terrible shipboard conditions- was known as a "floating hell "to its sailors.

Massachusetts law

A(n) ________ of 1789 reaffirmed the colonial laws by which each town was obligated to support a school, but there was little enforcement.

Native Americans

In the first decade of the nineteenth century, the number of western Americans who had settled east of the Appalachians had grown to more than 500, 000- a population far larger than that of the ________.

Jefferson

________ instructed Robert Livingston, the American ambassador in Paris, to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans.

Jefferson

________ was, above all, a shrewd and practical politician.

Jefferson

________ expelled all British warships from American waters to lessen the likelihood of future incidents.