Question 1

As president, Thomas Jefferson learned that many of the political principles he had promoted

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A)   were not really that admirable.
B)   had to be reversed under the pressure of political realities.
C)   had to be fought for even against members of his own party.
D)   were being subverted by Federalist judges.
E)   were inconsistent with the Constitution.

Question 2

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of

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A)   American settlement of the Great Plains.
B)   an overland trail to the Pacific.
C)   steamboat navigation of the Missouri and Columbia River systems.
D)   using Indian guides.
E)   developing harbors on the Pacific coast.

Question 3

Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because

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A)   there were too many French-speakers there.
B)   Canadian agriculture and lumbering would compete with New England.
C)   it would create more agricultural states sympathetic to the Democratic-Republicans.
D)   they believed that the Canadians could never become Americanized.
E)   they believed that a republic could not survive with such a vast territory.

Question 4

Thomas Jefferson's embargo failed for all of the following reasons except that

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A)   he underestimated the determination of the British.
B)   he underestimated Britain's dependence on American trade.
C)   Britain produced a bumper grain crop in the embargo years.
D)   new Latin American markets provided an alternative for the British.
E)   he miscalculated the difficulty of enforcing it.

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to expanding the U.S. navy when the

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A)   Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States.
B)   U.S. Marine Corps was established.
C)   French seized control of New Orleans and Haiti.
D)   British fleet began impressing American sailors.
E)   growing China trade required naval protection.

Question 6

In the 1800 election Thomas Jefferson won the key state of New York because

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A)   of New Yorkers' resentment of Jefferson's nemesis, Hamilton.
B)   Aaron Burr used his influence to turn the state to Jefferson.
C)   Adams's threatened wars had badly injured New York's economy.
D)   New Yorkers were not bothered by the charges of atheism against Jefferson.
E)   Jefferson had a natural appeal for New York's urban ethnic voters.

Question 7

Thomas Jefferson distrusted large professional armies because they

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A)   were further from the people than the part-time militia.
B)   always developed a destructive rivalry with the navy.
C)   could be used to establish a dictatorship.
D)   created an elite and arrogant officer corps.
E)   might establish a military-industrial complex.

Question 8

With Thomas Jefferson's election as president, the Democratic-Republican party

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A)   grew stronger and more unified.
B)   displayed the essential contradictions of its ideology and supporters.
C)   soon resented its leaders' lavish life-style.
D)   grew less unified as the Federalist party began to fade and lose power.
E)   sought to extend the Alien and Sedition Acts to punish their enemies.

Question 9

The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except

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A)   further destroy the Indian alliance led by Tecumseh.
B)   revive western farm trade with Europe.
C)   capture Canada and possibly Florida.
D)   retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.
E)   gain revenge for British maltreatment of U.S. sailors.

Question 10

Once begun, the War of 1812 was supported strongly by

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A)   practically all Americans.
B)   New England and the seaboard states.
C)   very few people.
D)   the West and South.
E)   Federalists.

Question 11

The legal precedent for judicial review was established when

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A)   the House of Representatives impeached Justice Samuel Chase.
B)   the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional.
C)   Congress repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801.
D)   President Adams appointed several "midnight judges" to the federal courts.
E)   the Supreme Court challenged the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Question 12

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

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A)   threatened war with Britain.
B)   pushed through an embargo on all American foreign trade.
C)   declared the U.S. would boycott trade with any nation that did not respect neutral rights.
D)   proposed high tariffs on British and French goods.
E)   tried to direct American trade to Latin America and Asia.

Question 13

The British policy of impressment was a kind of

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A)   naval blockade.
B)   economic boycott.
C)   illegal conscription.
D)   diplomatic pressure.
E)   revenge for the American Revolution.

Question 14

The American naval war with Tripoli ended with

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A)   America's overthrow of the Tripoli government.
B)   a substantial defeat of the main American fleet.
C)   a peace treaty in 1805.
D)   the French colonial conquest of North Africa.
E)   the mediation of Islamic religious authorities.

Question 15

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 16

After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr

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A)   fled to France.
B)   organized a conspiracy to depose Thomas Jefferson.
C)   tried to invade Cuba and bring it into the United States.
D)   was arrested and found innocent of murder.
E)   engaged in a plot to separate the western part of the United States from the east.

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson had argued in the Kentucky Resolution that the final authority for determining the meaning of the Constitution should be

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A)   the House of Representatives.
B)   the individual states.
C)   the attorney general and the Department of Justice.
D)   the president.
E)   a special tribunal elected only when a difficult case arose.

Question 18

Upon becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed

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A)   the Alien and Sedition Acts.
B)   the charter of the National Bank.
C)   the excise tax.
D)   the funding and assumption of the national debt.
E)   the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Question 19

Perhaps the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was

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A)   fears that the Alien and Sedition Acts were only the first assaults on American freedoms.
B)   the serious economic recession caused by international turmoil.
C)   public frustration at Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France after feverish mobilization for war.
D)   the continuing public resentment of Federalist pro-business policies.
E)   the stories circulating about Adams's relationship with a slave woman.

Question 20

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

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A)   New England merchants and sailors.
B)   white frontierspeople from the West and South.
C)   Federalists.
D)   the middle Atlantic states.
E)   Irish and German immigrants.

Exam 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

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As president, Thomas Jefferson learned that many of the political principles he had promoted

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Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to expanding the U.S. navy when the

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With Thomas Jefferson's election as president, the Democratic-Republican party

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Thomas Jefferson distrusted large professional armies because they

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