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The chapter introduction tells the story of Margaret Bayard Smith to make the point that: |
| | A) | Jefferson took office amid a perilous world situation; his personal charm won significant diplomatic victories as easily as he won the admiration of intelligent women. |
| | B) | the divisions within the national political world could be mirrored in family strife, at least until the Federalist Party disappeared. |
| | C) | southern women and western men became the ideal types of Americans in the Jeffersonian republic. |
| | D) | the peaceful transference of power to the Republicans was remarkable; just as significant was the growth, under Republican rule, of a sense of American nationhood. |
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Which of the following does NOT accurately state a principle that Jefferson espoused? |
| | A) | People may be trusted to make political choices based on correct principles. |
| | B) | Radical change is periodically necessary to make sure that equality and democracy continue to be extended to all men and women of all races and faiths. |
| | C) | Human reason is the powerful tool that will unlock the secrets of nature and improve human society. |
| | D) | The life of the independent farmer in a free market is an economically preferable and morally superior social condition. |
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According to the doctrine established in the Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison: |
| | A) | the high court could rule on the constitutionality of federal laws. |
| | B) | the high court could compel public officials to perform their duties. |
| | C) | the executive branch must defer to the rulings of the legislative branch. |
| | D) | the judicial branch should defer to the wishes of the legislative branch. |
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The Louisiana Purchase was significant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Jefferson's pragmatism caused him to overlook his doubts about the constitutionality of the Purchase. |
| | B) | It illustrated Jefferson's enthusiastic interest in the West. |
| | C) | It rekindled the American alliance with France. |
| | D) | It secured Western access to the sea. |
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What larger social pattern helps explain the clashes between whites and Indians and, more specifically, their resort to both religious renewal movements and abusive consumption of increased quantities of alcohol? |
| | A) | Neither tribal villages nor backcountry villages felt any cultural or economic need for the other. |
| | B) | Traditional cultural systems were breaking down, creating great cultural stress. |
| | C) | Birth rates in both groups were rising sharply, imposing great pressures on the land. |
| | D) | Both groups had abandoned their religious roots and rejected calls to return to traditional beliefs. |
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Deforestation of the Ohio valley region caused each of the following problems EXCEPT: |
| | A) | a scarcity of large animals such as deer, bears, and bison. |
| | B) | increased water runoff, which both dried up streams for part of the year and caused rivers to flood during other times. |
| | C) | an enrichment of the soil. |
| | D) | the spread of malaria. |
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What is NOT true about the Second Great Awakening? |
| | A) | It featured a new style of moralistic preaching known as strict construction. |
| | B) | Its effects were felt by women as well as men, and by blacks as well as whites. |
| | C) | Its effects were felt both in the settled East and on the frontier. |
| | D) | The most effective organizational technique on the frontier was the Methodist system of circuit riders. |
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During his presidency, James Madison: |
| | A) | pursued a more nationalistic domestic policy with the assistance of a new generation of Republican politicians such as Henry Clay. |
| | B) | asserted a strong leadership over Congress. |
| | C) | showed his lack of experience in public life. |
| | D) | was outmaneuvered by French and English diplomats in the events leading up to the War of 1812. |
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The American declaration of war against Britain in 1812 occurred because: |
| | A) | Americans were outraged by the violation of neutral rights. |
| | B) | representatives from coastal regions demanded retribution for the loss of American ships. |
| | C) | many members of Congress felt the British continued to view Americans as colonials and that the nation's independence hung in the balance. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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During the War of 1812: |
| | A) | Andrew Jackson became a national hero with his victory at the Battle of New Orleans. |
| | B) | the Americans launched a successful invasion of Canada. |
| | C) | Tecumseh saw his great chance to win American favor by allying with the United States against the British. |
| | D) | the British failed in their attacks against Washington D. C. , Baltimore, and New Orleans. |
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The Hartford Convention (1814) was: |
| | A) | a meeting of New England literary figures. |
| | B) | a diplomatic agreement concerning Oregon. |
| | C) | the business conference when the first American insurance company was organized. |
| | D) | a protest meeting of anti-war New Englanders. |
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The Barbary Pirates: |
| | A) | Bore no special hostility toward the United States. |
| | B) | Practiced a more severe form of slavery than that of the Europeans and Americans on the West Africa coast. |
| | C) | Were Christians attacking the vessels of nations they deemed insufficiently pious. |
| | D) | Quickly surrendered when President Jefferson sent a fleet of ships to stop the attacks on American vessels. |
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The Jeffersonian era demonstrates a great irony: |
| | A) | a party that rose as an opposition movement won the support of most Americans because of its foreign policies. |
| | B) | Jefferson's policies opened the West with a view to creating an Empire of Liberty, but settlement would take place under the leadership of nationalistic Republicans who faced very different problems and challenges. |
| | C) | Jefferson and Madison, whose "great collaboration" had undergirded much of the early history of the American republic, came to disagree fundamentally over how that republic should be governed. |
| | D) | The Jeffersonian vision of a decentralized republic of independent farmers was undermined and eventually buried by Jefferson's exercise of vigorous national leadership and the consequences of "Mr. Madison's War. " |
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The Monroe Doctrine: |
| | A) | proclaimed that the U. S. would be a continental nation. |
| | B) | warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas. |
| | C) | guaranteed the independence of Spain's former colonies. |
| | D) | laid claims to the Oregon County. |
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The new generation of Republicans favored all of the following domestic policies EXCEPT: |
| | A) | protective tariffs. |
| | B) | the abolition of slavery. |
| | C) | the development of better roads and canals. |
| | D) | territorial expansion. |
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The Missouri Crisis: |
| | A) | erupted over rival fur trappers' activities along the upper Missouri River. |
| | B) | was the first great sectional crisis in American history. |
| | C) | was ended by the panic of 1819. |
| | D) | led to the abolition of slavery in the territories. |
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