CC American History - Chapter 8: Securing the Republic

Gabriel

organizer of a slave rebellion in America

Tecumseh

pan-Indian movement

John Marshall

chief justice of the Supreme Court

John Fries

Pennsylvania militia leader tried for treason

Matthew Lyon

accused under the Sedition Act

Mary Wollstonecraft

wrote “A Vindication to the Rights of Woman”

Benjamin Franklin

president of Pennsylvania Abolition Society

Toussaint L’Overture

Hatian slave revolutionary

Henry Clay

War Hawk

Aaron Burr

shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel

Sarah Morton

wrote “The African Chief”

Judith Sargent Murray

argued for equal educational opportunities for women

strict constructionist

government could only do exactly what Constitution stated

Jay’s Treaty

negotiated with Britain

Fries’s Rebellion

Pennsylvania Farmer uprising

Louisiana territory

bought for $15 million

War Hawks

called for war against Britain

Marbury v. Madison

judicial review

Virginia resolution

attacked the Sedition Act as unconstitutional

impressments

forced American sailors into the British navy

Sedition Act

restrictions placed on freedom of the oress

quasi-war

unofficial conflict with France

Hartford Convention

ended the Federalist Party

XYZ Affair

bribery scandal

When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation’s success depended on:

maintaining political harmony

All of the following men held a higher executive or judicial office during George Washington’ presidency EXCEPT:

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton’s goal was to:

make the United States a major commercial and military power.

Which of the following was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton’s financial program?

a national capital city with experimental manufacturing

Which of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton’s proposals?

The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America’s future.

Opponents of Hamilton’s economic plan:

agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South

“Strict constructionists” believed:

the federal government could only exercise powers specifically listed in the Constitution

Pierre Charles L’Enfant is well known for:

designing Washington D.C.

Benjamin Banneker was:

a scientist who helped survey the new national capital

How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?

Almost everyone supported it at first because the French seemed to be following in Americans’ footsteps

What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?

He was executed

Which international partner did Alexander Hamilton think most important for the survival and prosperity of the United States?

the British

Edmond Genet was a French diplomat who:

commissioned American ships to fight the British

Which of the following led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed too the Federalist Party?

Jay’s Treaty

Which of the following is true of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?

It was the only time in U.S. history that the president commanded an army into field.

The French Revolution:

reinforced the Republicans’ sympathy toward the French

The Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s:

criticized the Washington administration

Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”:

was inspired by Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man”

Which of the following is true of women and political life in the new republic of the 1790s?

Some women contributed to a growing democratization of political life by arguing for increased rights for their sex

Judith Sargent Murray argued that women’s apparent mental inferiority to men simply reflected the fact that women had been denied:

educational opportunities

The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against":

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Which of the following was NOT true of the United States in 1797?

Believing that political parties were wrong, Adams included Jefferson and Hamilton in his government, and they did not get along.

The “quasi-war” was a war of the United States against:

France

Fries’s Rebellion

resulted in a loss of support for the Federalists in southeastern Pennsylvania?

The Sedition Act targeted:

the Republican Press

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:

the Alien and Sedition Acts

The Kentucky resolution originally stated that:

states could nullify laws of Congress

The Sedition Act of 1798:

led Jefferson to argue that the states, not the federal government, could punish seditious speech.

Which of the following is NOT true of the presidential election of 1800?

Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election

Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?

Benjamin Franklin

Which of the following is true of the American response to Toussaint L’Overture’s slave uprising, which led to the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804?

Many white Americans considered L’Overture’s uprising to be evidence of blacks’ unfitness for Republican freedom

Gabriel’s Rebellion:

demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else.

After becoming president, how did Thomas Jefferson deal with the Federalists?

He tried to roll back on almost everything they had done by cutting taxes and the size of government

What was the significance of the case “Marbury V Madison”?

The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review

In it’s decision in the case of Fletcher v Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court:

exercised the authority to overturn a state law that the Court considered in violation of the U.S. Constitution

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase:

stretched form the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Which of the following is true of the Louisiana Purchase?

Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism

Which of the following is NOT true about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

They never reached the Pacific coast.

Sacajawea was:

a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Which of the following statements is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule?

Slave women had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners.

Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states?

Tripoli has declared war on the United States after Jefferson had refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates.

What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?

It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—and amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly committed to a weak government.

Jefferson’s Embargo Act:

caused economic depression within the United States

Which of the following contributed to the United States going to war in 1812?

congressional War Hawks who pressed for territorial expansion into Florida and Canada

The War Hawks in Congress included:

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

Who wrote that he hoped that the purchase of Louisiana would lead to the transplanting of all the Indians from east of the Mississippi to the west of the Mississippi?

Thomas Jefferson

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who:

preached the militant message to Native Americans early in the nineteenth century.

Which of the following contributed to the poor American performance in the War of 1812?

The nation was deeply divided about whether to go to war.

When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he:

recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that the white recruits received

The Treaty that ended the War of 1812:

restored the prewar status quo.

After the war of 1812, Americans were compensated for lost slaves:

by an international arbitration agreement decided by the Russian czar.

Which of the following was NOT a result of the War of 1812?

The United States gained land in what is now Maine, Vermont, Michigan, and Minnesota, as well as all of modern Florida

Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812?

The Hartford Convention’s allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist party’s reputation.