History- test 9

Washington ivring's stories...

a. featured a mythic America of equality and success.
b. were not very popular during his lifetime.
c. reflected the social, political, and economic changes common in the United States at the time.
d. all of the above.

How did congress attempt to eliminate this kind of confusion in future election?

a. It outlawed political parties and had all candidates run as individuals.
b. It referred future disputes of electoral votes to the Supreme Court.
c. It required vice presidential candidates to agree not to accept the presidency if they drew more votes t

What was the theme of Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address?

a. He announced a New Deal for the American people to help them recover from a depressed economy.
b. He attempted to put partisan bitterness of the previous decade to rest.
c. He called for war against pirates operating along the Barbary Coast.
d. He urge

To weaken a Federalist attempt to pack federalist courts though late-term appointments authorized by Judiciary Act of 1801, President Jackson ordered

a. commissions for new judges not yet delivered to be withheld.
c. new judges to surrender their commissions and cease holding court.
b. the act declared null and void.
d. U.S. marshals to close down federal courts until new legislation passed Congress.

In an attempt to retaliate against Federalist-appointed judges for partisanship in cases involving the Sedition Act, Jefferson's administration impeached Associate Supreme Court Justice

a. John Marshall.
b. John Pickering.
c. Roger Brooke Taney.
d. Samuel Chase.

How did Judge John Marshall use the case of Marbury v. Madison to expand the authority of the Supreme Court?

a. by overruling Marbury and ordering him to award Madison his patent
b. by establishing the principle of state reciprocity
c. by holding the actions of lower courts in error and ordering a new trial for Marbury
d. through judicial review, he claimed the

How effective were President Jefferson's economic proposals during his first administration?

a. He cut the national deficit in half.
b. Foreign creditors benefited more than domestic investors.
c. His stimulus spending had the economy moving again by the end of his term of office.
d. Unemployment rose and social benefit costs increased

On what mission did President Jefferson send Robert Livingston and James Monroe to France?

a. to assist Napoleon Bonaparte in rewriting France's legal code
b. to purchase New Orleans and West Florida
c. to secure bribe money left behind during the XYZ Affair
d. to seek French assistance in dealing with Barbary pirates

What Democratic Republican principle was violated by the Louisiana Purchase?

a. agrarian foundation of the republic
b. not incurring additional international obligations before the country was firmly established
c. keeping the government small
d. strict construction of the Constitution

In 1804 President Jefferson sent an expedition led by and to investigate the northern portion of land purchased from France.

a. Daniel Boone and James Madison
b. David Crockett and Mike Fink
c. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
d. Zebulon and Albert Pike

The 1804 mission to investigate the northern portion of land purchased from France was completed successfully, partially because

a. Army quartermaster and commissary corps provided adequate supplies.
b. Indians generally accepted their explanation that they were interested only in trade, not additional territory.
c. Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, served as guide and interpreter.
d. u

Why was former Vice President Aaron Burr tried for treason?

a. He was accused of raising a force of several thousand men in order to take control of part of Spanish Mexico.
b. He intended to seize land from Spain for an independent empire.
c. He passed state secrets to Spanish agents in New Orleans.
d. He plotted

Why was former Vice President Aaron Burr not convicted?

a. Burr's popularity won him sympathy with the jury.
b. His lawyers proved that the case against Burr was flimsy.
c. Jurymen realized that the charges were more political than judicial.
d. Justice John Marshall narrowly interpreted the definition of treas

The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair involved

a. an agreement between diplomatic agents concerning the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase.
b. a British war ship firing across the bow of an American navy ship to force inspection of her crew.
c. a trade agreement to exchange American tobacco for Afri

President Jefferson's policy of embargo did what?

a. approved the purchase of Louisiana
b. attempted to purge Federalists from the judicial branch
c. closed American ports and ordered American vessels to remain in port
d. compensated Indians for their land when whites occupied land Indians formerly contr

What was the impact of the embargo?

a. England and France immediately agreed to honor the neutral rights of the United States.
b. England immediately declared war in retaliation.
c. It hurt American shipping and American farmers and producers by taking away markets.
d. John Marshall ruled J

When President Jefferson did not seek the nomination of the Democratic Republican Party for president in 1808, who was his logical successor to that nomination and the presidency?

a. Aaron Burr
b. James Madison
c. James Monroe
d. John Randolph

How did President Jefferson describe his administration?

a. like life in a public housing project
b. as magnificent obsession
c. that the White House was like a big white jail
d. as splendid misery

Congress's Non-Intercourse Act, signed by President James Madison,

a. approved trade with England but not France because of the human rights violations of the French Revolution.
b. reinstated the embargo that had been repealed before Jefferson left office.
c. released American ships to trade with France, an ally since th

On June 1, 1812, after continuing interference with American shipping, President Madison asked Congress to declare war on

a. England, because the British navy continued to stop American vessels and impress American sailors into the British service.
b. France and England, because both continued to violate the neutrality of the United States.
c. France, because Napoleon violat

Western America clamored for war because they believed that

a. both England and France would never stop trying to make colonies of American territories.
b. British agents stirred up Indian unrest in the West to block American expansion.
c. French traders still participated in the fur trade in their area.
d. Spain

New England shippers

a. supported a war against England.
b. supported a war against France.
c. opposed a war against England.
d. opposed a war against Spain.

Rash young Congressmen such as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, who urged Madison to assume a more belligerent policy, were called what?

a. Cincinnati and Tammany
b. disciples of Napoleon
c. Sons of Mars
d. war hawks

After the United States declared war with England for a second time in a generation, American forces

a. invaded Canada but were repulsed.
b. launched a massive shipbuilding campaign to oppose British vessels on the high seas.
c. prepared to invade Ireland, then move on to England.
d. were trained for battle by George Washington, their most experienced mi

What was primary naval victory for the United States in the War of 1812?

a. breaking the British blockade
b. John Paul Jones's sweeping the Atlantic with his men-of-war
c. mounting the amphibious invasion of England
d. Oliver Hazard Perry's defeating the British fleet in the Great Lakes

The United States attempted to counter Britain's superior sea power by

a. building as many Navy ships as possible.
b. launching an "arsenal of democracy" in the Atlantic.
c. sticking strictly to land warfare.
d. turning to private schooners and sloops that captured more than 1,300 British vessels

How did British forces respond to the invasion of Canada when they captured Washington?

a. They agreed to stop impressing American seamen into their navy.
b. They attempted to burn the Capitol.
c. They rearmed their fleet on the Great Lakes.
d. They required Congress to vote an official apology and to promise not to invade again.

Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" after

a. proudly hailing victorious soldiers welcomed home from war in a ticker-tape parade in New York.
b. serving with Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Michigan.
c. staying up till the dawn's early light when the British captured Washington.
d. watching bombs burs

American's greatest military victory, ironically achieved after the War of 1812 had officially ended, was

a. Andrew Jackson's defeat of a British invasion of New Orleans.
b. Edward Packenham's invasion of England in 1815.
c. William Henry Harrison's triumph over Creeks and British agents at Horseshoe Bend
d. Winfield Scott's victory over Tecumseh and British

Which of the following statements was not among the obstacles American traders had to overcome in order to trade with the Chinese?

a. Chinese did not want foreigners in their country.
b. American products did not really interest the Chinese.
c. American traders did not have the ship technology to sail to China.
d. American traders had to find a source of silver, which the Chinese wan