American Pageant Chapter 11
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| 343362311 | Who split openly with President Adams? | The Hamilton wing of the Federalist Party | 0 | |
| 343362312 | What was the most damaging blow to the Federalists? | The refusal of Adams to give them a rousing fight with France | 1 | |
| 343362313 | What was Jefferson accused of by the federalists? | having robbed a widow and her children of a trust fund and fathering the children of his slaves. | 2 | |
| 343362314 | Why was Jefferson not liked by the clergy? | he did not believe in god and separated the church from the state government. | 3 | |
| 343362315 | What did Old ladies of Federalists families do fearing Jefferson's election? | Old ladies of Federalist families buried their bibles or hung them in wells. | 4 | |
| 343362316 | By how much did Jefferson win the election of 1800? | 73 to 65. | 5 | |
| 343362317 | Why was Jeffersonian joy dampened? | Through a technicality Jefferson, the presidential candidate, and Burr, his vice presidential running mate, received the same number of electoral votes for the presidency. | 6 | |
| 343362318 | What broke the deadlock in the Congress? | A few Federalists, despairing of electing Burr and hoping for moderation from Jefferson, refrained from voting. | 7 | |
| 343362319 | What was John Adams the last of? | Federalist presidents | 8 | |
| 343362320 | What was Jefferson's mission as he saw it? | To restore the republican experiment, to check thegrowth of government power, and to halt the decay of virtue that had set in under Federalist rule. | 9 | |
| 343362321 | How did Jefferson get to the Capitol? | He spurned a horse-drawn coach and strode by foot to the Capitol from his boardinghouse. | 10 | |
| 343362322 | What precedent did Jefferson start which was unbroken for 112 years? | Sending messages to Congress to be read by a clerk. | 11 | |
| 343362323 | Why did he start the precedent of sending messages to Congress to be read by a clerk? | Jefferson was painfully conscious of his weak voice and unimpressive platform presence. | 12 | |
| 343362324 | What did the naturalization law of 1802 do? | Reduced the unreasonable requirement of fourteen years of residence to the previous and more reasonable requirement of five years. | 13 | |
| 343362325 | Who was Jefferson's Secretary to the treasury? | Albert Gallatin | 14 | |
| 343362326 | What was one of the last important laws passed by the expiring Federalist Congress? | The "deathbed" Judiciary Act of 1801 . | 15 | |
| 343362327 | What are the midnight judges? | It was claimed that President Adams stayed up late into the night of his last day in office appointed the judges. | 16 | |
| 343362328 | What did John Marshall do more than any other single figure? | Shaped the American Legal tradition | 17 | |
| 343362329 | What experience made John marshal a lifelong federalist? | He had been painfully impressed with the drawbacks of feeble central authority. | 18 | |
| 343362330 | Why did Marshall dismiss Marbury's law suit? | In order to avoid a political showdown. | 19 | |
| 343362331 | How did Marshall explain his ruling? | Said that the part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 on which Marbury tried to base his appeal was unconstitutional. | 20 | |
| 343362332 | What did the Marbury v. Madison case establish? | The Judiciary Review | 21 | |
| 343362333 | That is the Judiciary Review? | "judicial review''—the idea that the Supreme Court alone had the last word on the question of constitutionality. | 22 | |
| 343362334 | What was one of Jefferson's first actions as president? | To reduce the military establishment to a mere police force of twenty- five hundred officers and men. | 23 | |
| 343362335 | What forced Jefferson's principles to bend? | Pirates of the North African Barbary States had long made a national industry of blackmailing and plundering merchant ships that ventured into the Mediterranean. | 24 | |
| 343362336 | How did the pasha of Tripoli declare war on the U.S? | The pasha of Tripoli, dissatisfied with his share of protection money, informally declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff of the American consulate. | 25 | |
| 343362337 | How long did the U.S fight with Tripoli? | 4 years. | 26 | |
| 343362338 | How long did Jefferson succeed in extorting a treaty? | 4 years | 27 | |
| 343362339 | What is a Jeff? | Little coastal craft—"Jeffs'' or the "mosquito fleet,'' as they were contemptuously called. | 28 | |
| 343362340 | Why did Jefferson send Madison to aid Livingston? | To quiet the clamor of the West, Jefferson moved decisively. | 29 | |
| 343362341 | What was Jefferson's price ceiling on the Louisiana Purchase? | $10 million. | 30 | |
| 343362342 | What two developments prompted napoleon to sell Louisiana? | He had failed in his efforts to reconquer the sugar-rich island of Santo Domingo, for which Louisiana was to serve as a source of foodstuffs. Second, Bonaparte was about to end the twenty-month lull in his deadly conflict with Britain. | 31 | |
| 343362343 | For how much did we purchase the Louisiana Purchase for? | $15 million. | 32 | |
| 343362344 | What did that come out to per acre? | 3 cents per acre. | 33 | |
| 343362345 | Who was sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase? | William Clark . | 34 | |
| 343362346 | What did Zebulon M. Pike do? | Trekked to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1805-1806. | 35 | |
| 343362347 | What did Burr do with a group of Federalist extremists? | Plot the secession of New England and New York. | 36 | |
| 343362348 | Who exposed the conspiracy of Burr and the extremists? | Alexander Hamilton | 37 | |
| 343362349 | What was Burr's response to being exposed to conspiracy? | Burr Challenged Hamilton to a duel. | 38 | |
| 343362350 | What did Hamilton refuse to do? | Shoot Burr | 39 | |
| 343362351 | What did Burr and Wilkinson plan to do? | he and Wilkinson apparently planned to separate the western part of the United States from the East and expand their new confederacy with invasions of Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida. | 40 | |
| 343362352 | What happened to Burr after being arrested for treason? | Burr was acquitted and fled to Europe, where he urged Napoleon to make peace with Britain and launch a joint invasion of America. | 41 | |
| 343362353 | By how many votes did win the election of 1804? | 162 to 14 | 42 | |
| 343362354 | What happened to the Battle of Trafalgar? | One-eyed Horatio Lord Nelson defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain, | 43 | |
| 343362355 | What were the results of the Battle of Austerlitz? | At the Battle of Austerlitz in Austria—the Battle of the Three Emperors—Napoleon crushed the combined Austrian and Russian armies. | 44 | |
| 343362356 | What was another name for the Battle of Auzterlitz? | Battle of Three Emperors. | 45 | |
| 343362357 | What did the orders in council state? | The orders in council claimed European ports under French control to foreign shipping. | 46 | |
| 343362358 | What is Impressment? | ... | 47 | |
| 343362359 | What did the Embargo Act of 1807 do? | This rigorous law forbade the export of all goods from the United States, whether in American or in foreign ships. | 48 | |
| 343362360 | Why did the embargo collapse after fifteen dismal months? | First of all, he underestimated the bulldog determination of the British, as others have, and overestimated the dependence of both belligerents on America's trade. More critically, perhaps, Jefferson miscalculated the unpopularity of such a self- crucifying weapon and the difficulty of enforcing it. | 49 | |
| 343362361 | Who became the 4th president of the United States? | James Madison | 50 | |
| 343362362 | Who were the war hawks? | Southerners desperate for war with Britain | 51 | |
| 343362363 | Who are Tecumseh and the prophet? | Two remarkable Shawnee brothers who attempted to gather Indian tribes and conquer the whites. | 52 | |
| 343362364 | What happened at the Battle of Tippecanoe? | The Battle of Tippecanoe made Harrison a national hero. It also discredited the Prophet and drove Tecumseh into an alliance with the British. When America's war with Britain came, Tecumseh fought fiercely for the redcoats until his death in 1813 at the Battle of the Thames. With him perished the dream of an Indian confederacy. | 53 | |
| 343362365 | What did Madison believe by the spring of 1812? | War with Britain was inevitable | 54 | |
| 343362366 | Why did Madison turn to war overall? | In order to restore confidence in the republican experiment | 55 | |
| 343362367 | What were votes in the Congress on a Declaration of war against England? | House : 79 to 49, Senate : 19 to 13 | 56 | |
| 343362368 | Why should seafaring New England oppose the war for a free sea? | pro-British Federalists in the Northeast sympathized with Britain and resented the Republicans' sympathy with Napoleon, whom they regarded as the "Corsican butcher" and the "anti-Christ of the age." | 57 | |
| 343362369 | Why did the colonists oppose the acquisition of Canada? | to prevent a wild northwest States | 58 | |
| 343362370 | What were the two enemies America had to fight? | Old England, and New England. | 59 |
