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The winner of the presidential election of 1800 was chosen by the A) Senate. B) Electoral College. C) white, male, adult voters. D) Supreme Court
E) House of Representatives.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 2. In the election of 1800 A) Jefferson's vice-presidential running mate was George Clinton. B) Hamilton endorsed Clinton when the election went to the House of Representatives. C) Jefferson was finally chosen president by the House of Representatives. D) Adams and Jefferson received the same number of electoral votes.
E) Jefferson was finally chosen president by the Senate.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 3. A direct consequence of the election of 1800 was the constitutional amendment stipulating A) a single electoral college ballot in which the candidate with the most votes became president and the runner-up became vice president. B) the date for inaugurating the president. C) the organization of political parties. D) separate electoral college ballots for president and vice-president.
E) qualifications of those who could vote for presidential electors.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 4. A major Federalist accomplishment was A) protecting freedom of speech. B) establishing a sound fiscal system. C) asserting American rights aggressively against continuing British domination. D) aiding the French Revolution with military supplies.
E) respecting the rights of immigrants.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
According to your text, the most significant aspect of the election of 1800 was that A) Jefferson gained an overwhelming vote in the Electoral College. B) the Federalists defeated the Republicans so easily. C) it was not a revolution. D) Jefferson was elected by irregular, if not illegal, means.
E) the voters seemed to approve the Federalist's Alien and Sedition Acts and yet
Jefferson was elected.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 6. The politician who sought to preserve America as a nation of minimal government and small, independent farmers was A) John Adams. B) Alexander Hamilton. C) Thomas Jefferson. D) Henry Clay.
E) John Marshall.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 7. One of the few points on which Jefferson agreed with Hamilton was the A) need to commercialize the nation. B) advantages of favoring the British in foreign policy. C) ease with which propertyless city dwellers could be corrupted by demagogues. D) necessity to restrict the power of government as much as possible.
E) dangers of favoring the French Revolution in its early phase.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 8. Thomas Jefferson was an early defender of A) Hamilton's Report on Manufactures. B) urban growth. C) strong, central government. D) the Bank of the United States.
E) the French Revolution.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
C) Thomas Jefferson. D) James Madison.
E) James Monroe.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 13. Your text describes Jefferson as a(n) ________ politician. A) non-partisan B) inept C) aristocratic D) antagonistic
E) superb
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 14. As president, Thomas Jefferson A) worked poorly with fellow Republicans in Congress. B) appointed only Republicans to his Cabinet. C) followed Washington's example of dignified pomp and ceremony. D) escalated conflicts between himself and his opponents.
E) followed Washington's example of a non-partisan, balanced Cabinet.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 15. The purpose of the ________ was to maintain Federalist control of the judicial branch against Jeffersonianism. A) Governmental Reorganization Act of 1799 B) Judiciary Act of 1801 C) Judicial Review Act of 1805 D) Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
E) Supremacy Act of 1801.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 16. The Federalist Chief Justice who established the power of the Supreme Court to invalidate federal laws in Marbury v. Madison (1803) was
A) John Marshall. B) Oliver Ellsworth. C) Samuel Chase. D) William Hubard.
E) John Jay.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 17. In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall cleverly established the power of the Supreme Court to A) issue writs ordering governmental officials to perform certain duties. B) invalidate federal laws held to be in conflict with the Constitution. C) remove congressmen from office who were convicted of felonies. D) remove governmental officials who refused to perform their duties.
E) award damages to governmental officials deprived of their jobs.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 18. "The authority, therefore, given to the Supreme Court by the act of establishing the judicial courts of the United States, to issue writs of mandamus to public officers, appears not to be warranted by the Constitution... .It is...the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." The above is from A) the Judiciary Act of 1801. B) John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland. C) Thomas Jefferson, "First Inaugural Address." D) John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison.
E) George Washington, "Farewell Address."
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 19. Republican attempts to impeach Federalist judges resulted in the A) removal of twelve judges, largely on the grounds of political disagreements. B) Supreme Court ruling that judges were not subject to impeachment. C) failure to remove their main target, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. D) complete failure to remove any of the judges.
E) removal of their main target, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C
In the negotiations for what became the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson originally commissioned Robert Livingston and James Monroe to purchase A) everything west of the Mississippi River. B) St. Louis and New Orleans. C) a peace settlement with Spain and France. D) New Orleans and Florida.
E) the rights to navigate the Mississippi River.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 25. The leader who abandoned his plans for an empire in the New World and sold Louisiana to the United States was A) Louis XVI. B) Juan Carlos I. C) George III. D) Frederick the Great.
E) Napoleon.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 26. "And whereas in pursuance of the treaty...the French Republic has an incontestable title to the domain and to the possession of the said territory... .The First Consul of the French Republic desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship doth hereby cede to the said United States in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full sovereignty the said territory with all its rights.. .as fully and in the same manner as they have been acquired by the French Republic in virtue of the above mentioned treaty concluded with his Catholic Majesty... ." This quotation refers to A) Pinckney's Treaty. B) Jay's Treaty. C) the Louisiana Purchase. D) XYZ Affair.
E) Treaty of Alliance Between France and the United States.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 27. In the end, Jefferson justified the purchase of Louisiana by
A) reminding the country of the dangers presented by foreigners in North America. B) appealing to the "manifest destiny" of the United States to expand westward to the Pacific. C) amending the Constitution specifically to allow the addition of new territories. D) bowing to "the good sense of the country" which seemed to demand the acquisition despite constitutional difficulties.
E) amending the Constitution specifically to grant citizenship to the residents.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 28. The die-hard Federalists who organized a scheme to break away from the Union and create a "northern confederacy" in 1804 were the A) Federal Constitutionalists. B) Essex Junto. C) Hartford Convention. D) War Hawks.
E) Loyal Washingtonians.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 29. The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr resulted from A) Hamilton's campaigning against Burr when he ran for Governor of New York and then continuing to cast aspersions on Burr's character. B) Burr's opposition to Hamilton's financial program. C) Burr's refusal to withdraw from the election of 1800, which forced Hamilton to support Jefferson against his better judgment. D) Hamilton's habit of fighting duels on the slightest provocation.
E) Burr's accusations that Hamilton had an affair with his wife.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 30. One of the purposes of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to A) build military outposts to serve as trading centers with the Native American tribes. B) bring Protestantism to the Native Americans. C) drive the Spanish out of Oregon. D) establish official relations with Native American tribes.
E) prevent the French from regaining control of the Mississippi River Valley.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 35. The "Burr Conspiracy" was an unsuccessful attempt to A) seize the presidency which Aaron Burr thought was rightfully his. B) by Burr to assassinate Alexander Hamilton. C) kidnap Burr by New Englanders and hold him for a large ransom. D) separate a part of the West from the United States.
E) by Hamilton to assassinate Aaron Burr.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 36. In Aaron Burr's trial for treason A) Burr readily admitted his guilt. B) Hamilton antagonized Burr so much that they fought a duel in which Hamilton was killed. C) Burr was sentenced to death but fled to Europe. D) neither President Jefferson nor Chief Justice Marshall acted impartially.
E) Chief Justice Marshall displayed great impartiality in contrast to Jefferson's vindictive
behavior toward Burr.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 37. The effect of the Berlin and Milan decrees by France and the Orders in Council by Great Britain was to A) encourage trade with Great Britain and discourage trade with France. B) encourage trade with France and discourage trade with Great Britain. C) stop all American trade with both countries. D) promote American trade with both countries.
E) make trade more difficult for neutral nations.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 38. Between 1803 and 1806, the main effect upon America of the war between France and England was to A) stimulate the economy dramatically, especially in reexporting foreign products. B) deepen domestic political divisions between the Republicans and the Federalists. C) disrupt and almost destroy American foreign trade.
D) stimulate greatly increased defense spending in preparation for war.
E) dramatically increase Federalist distrust of England.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 39. The British practice of forcibly removing British deserters from American ships was called A) impressment. B) dragoonment. C) freedom of the seas. D) involuntary recruitment.
E) de-naturalization.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 40. "No seaman, seafaring, or other person shall, upon the high seas be demanded or taken out of any ship or vessel belonging to the citizens of one of the parties, by the public or private armed ships belonging to, or in the service or, the other party... ." This was an American attempt to deal with the problem of A) international slave trade. B) impressment. C) illegal aliens. D) pirates.
E) smuggling.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 41. The problem of impressment was compounded by A) British captains insisting on thorough and lengthy investigations into which sailors were actually British citizens. B) America's loose immigration laws. C) Jefferson's refusal to allow the British to impress sailors on American ships who were British citizens. D) England's loose immigration laws.
E) the fact that American trade in war materials made shipping vulnerable to British
searches.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 46. How does your text evaluate the Embargo Act of 1807? A) It was Jefferson's most brilliant policy of his second term. B) It was certainly a mistake. C) It showed that Jefferson sometimes chose practical results over moral principles. D) The strong Federalist support ensured its success.
E) Even though it was unpopular, Jefferson had no other feasible options.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 47. Congress repealed (the) ________ in 1809 because it harmed American commerce rather than that of the British and French. A) Orders in Council B) Non-Intercourse Act C) Milan Decree D) Embargo Act
E) Macon's Bill No. 2.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 48. "Be it enacted.. .that from...the passing of this act, the entrance of the harbors and waters of the United States.. .is hereby interdicted to all ships or vessels sailing under the flag of Great Britain or France, or owned in whole or part by any citizen or subject of either... ." The above statement was from the A) Non-Intercourse Act. B) British Orders in Council. C) Embargo Act. D) Berlin Decree.
E) Milan Decree.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 49. According to the text, Thomas Jefferson "prepared the country for democracy" by A) demonstrating that there was almost no difference between the parties. B) introducing legislation to abolish slavery.
C) encouraging poor, white males to vote. D) proving that a democrat could establish and maintain a stable regime.
E) campaigning for the right to vote for women.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 50. According to your text, how successful was Jefferson as president by 1805? A) He was undermined by Federalists at every turn. B) He seemed to have led his fellow Americans into a golden age. C) He was very successful in all areas except domestic policy. D) He had one of the most disastrous first terms ever completed by a president who was re- elected.
E) He was very successful in all areas except foreign policy.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
