Chapter 8 (Securing the Republic, 1791 - 1815)

Thomas Jefferson brokered an agreement to assuage southerners to accept Alexander Hamilton's economic plans in exchange for:

A. a decreased tax on whiskey.

B. the acceptance of unrestricted slave trade in the lower states.

C. an early form of the three-fifths clause.

D. the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.

D. the building of a new and permanent national capital in the South.

The Hartford Convention:

A. called for secession and disunion.

B. called for amending the Constitution to require a three-fifths clause that would strengthen southern political power.

C. was, at best, a weak attempt by the Anti-Federalists to obtain more power.

D. affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.

D. affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.

Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by:

A. German stonemasons.

B. Irish immigrants.

C. African-American slaves.

D. indentured servants from Genoa.

C. African-American slaves.

"Impressment" as practiced by the British was:

A. the gentlemanly virtue of chivalric honor toward women.

B. the act of formally publishing a legal document.

C. kidnapping sailors.

D. enslaving Indians.

C. kidnapping sailors.

The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the:

A. Republicans and Democrats.

B. Republicans and Federalists.

C. Federalists and Whigs.

D. Democrats and Whigs.

B. Republicans and Federalists.

In the XYZ affair of 1797:

A. French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

B. Thomas Jefferson's affair with a slave was kept private.

C. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton.

D. the British legation was excoriated for the British system of impressment.

A. French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

Which of the following statements accurately reflects Fries' Rebellion of 1799?

A. Farmers in southeastern Georgia obstructed tax assessments.

B. President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.

C. John Fries, a local militia leader and auctioneer, was hanged.

D. John Fries was arrested for insurrection.

B. President John Adams dispatched federal troops to the area.

The "Revolution of 1800" was:

A. a recrudescence of the Whiskey Rebellion of four years earlier.

B. the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.

C. a rebellion of disgruntled western Massachusetts farmers over increased taxes.

D. a slave revolution on the Island of Haiti.

B. the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.

The case that established judicial review was:

A. Fletcher v. Peck.

B. Ex parte Milligan.

C. Marbury v. Madison.

D. Leopard v. Chesapeake.

C. Marbury v. Madison.

With the Louisiana Purchase:

A. Louisiana entered the Union as the eighteenth state.

B. the size of the nation was doubled.

C. the country was bankrupted.

D. France gained control of New Orleans.

B. the size of the nation was doubled.

On their journey of exploration from Missouri to Oregon, Lewis and Clark were accompanied by the American Indian interpreter:

A. Squanto.

B. Hiawatha.

C. Sitting Bull.

D. Sacajawea.

D. Sacajawea.

The objective of Gabriel's rebellion of 1800 was to:

A. blow up the White House in Washington D.C.

B. seize a naval warship and sail to the West Indies.

C. take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.

D. join the American army and foster a military coup against the presidency.

C. take over the city of Richmond and hold whites as hostages.

The "Second War of Independence" was:

A. the Civil War.

B. the Spanish-American War.

C. the quasi-war with France.

D. the War of 1812.

D. the War of 1812.

The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?

A. the Treaty of Ghent

B. the Treaty of New Orleans

C. the Treaty of Paris

D. the Treaty of Versailles

A. the Treaty of Ghent

T/F: The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.

False

T/F: In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

True

T/F: The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World.

True

T/F: The same American leaders of democracy who hailed the French Revolution as a step in the universal progress of liberty reacted in horror against the Haitian Revolution.

True

T/F: The Louisiana Purchase stalled Thomas Jefferson's plan to remove Indian tribes beyond the Mississippi River that refused to cooperate in "civilizing" themselves.

False