Chapter Eight: Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision, 1800-1814

Practice Quiz:

1. By 1810, one-fifth of the American population was made up of
a. Indians.
b. immigrants.
c. blacks.
d. Catholics.

2. The large increase in the national population reflected in the 1810 census resulted mainly from
a. the assimilation of whole tribes of Native Americans into the general population.
b. natural biological increase.
c. a huge increase in the importation of slaves from Africa.
d. the immigration of many thousands of Europeans fleeing the Napoleonic wars.

3. Why did people move to the West in the 1800s?
a. The federal government required poor immigrants to settle in the West.
b. Soldiers and their families moved West to control the Indian population.
c. People moved to create opportunities with farms on the rich soil.
d. The East had become unpleasantly overcrowded and industrialized.

4. Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa
a. worked to persuade the Indians of the Indiana Territory to hold onto their tribal cultures and their land.
b. represented themselves as tribal leaders and sold off huge tracts of land for whiskey and trinkets.
c. accepted President Jefferson’s promise of a vast Indian reservation west of the Mississippi River.
d. developed a written language for the Shawnees and worked for gradual assimilation into white culture.

5. American prosperity in the early 1800s was based on
a. an industrial economy.
b. rapid urbanization.
c. agriculture and commerce.
d. the slave system.

6. His contribution led to the birth of the factory system in the United States.
a. James Stubblefield
b. Samuel Slater
c. Benjamin Reed
d. Robert Lowell

7. Which of the following statements is NOT true of President Thomas Jefferson?
a. He was a man of great intellectual ability.
b. He created the military academy at West Point.
c. He hated the national debt.
d. He loved the military and saw it as America’s greatest asset.

8. What difficulty did Jefferson face in purchasing the Louisiana Territory?
a. possible confrontation with Great Britain
b. lack of support from the American people
c. the constitutionality of his actions
d. whether to accept foreign citizens on the land

9. In what ways was the Lewis and Clark expedition a success?
a. It forced Britain out of military posts in the West.
b. It fulfilled Jefferson’s scientific expectations and reaffirmed his faith in the future prosperity of the United States.
c. It discovered a direct water route from coast to coast of the continental United States.
d. It established peaceful relations with most of the Native American tribes in the West.

10. Samuel Chase’s impeachment trial
a. destroyed the authority of the courts.
b. maintained the independence of the judiciary.
c. was a rather dull affair.
d. showed Jefferson to be a conciliatory leader.

11. How were the Orders in Council and Berlin/Milan Decrees similar?
a. They both allowed broken voyages to occur throughout Europe.
b. They both forbade commerce in Europe but were ineffective “paper blockades.”
c. Neither had any effect on American shipping.
d. Both gave Great Britain control of the seas.

12. The most serious opposition to the War of 1812 came from
a. New Englanders, who believed we were fighting the war to build up America’s ego.
b. Westerners, who suffered from France’s beef embargo.
c. Southerners, whose slaves were escaping onto British naval vessals.
d. Native Americans, whose fur trade was jeopardized by the war.

13. The Battle of New Orleans was
a. a clear victory for the British army.
b. was actually a naval battle fought in the Gulf of Mexico.
c. was fought after the peace treaty ending the war has been signed.
d. claimed the life of America’s commanding general.

14. In what ways was the War of 1812 strange?
a. It was fought on U.S. territory but between France and Great Britain.
b. The U.S. believed it could win with a decentralized government and little money or military power against the most powerful nation in the world.
c. Great Britain was engaged in an expensive and taxing war with France but still found resources to engage the U.S. on land and by sea.
d. It was mainly fought by merchants and pirates on the Atlantic Ocean rather than by soldiers on land or naval officers at sea.

15. How did the Hartford Convention lead to the downfall of the Federalists?
a. The Hartford Federalists sent their resolutions to Washington just after the victorious Battle of New Orleans, making them look unpatriotic and selfish.
b. The Federalists who met in Hartford passed unreasonable resolutions that the rest of the country would never agree to, making Federalists look foolish.
c. The Republicans who met in Hartford passed resolutions that greatly weakened their Federalist opponents.
d. Only northern Federalists attended the convention; southern Federalists disagreed with the Hartford resolutions, fracturing and weakening the party.

16. The Treaty of Ghent, which marked the formal end of the war,
a. awarded part of Canada to the United States.
b. did little more than end hostilities and postpone issues for future negotiations.
c. gave the British navigation rights on the Mississippi River.
d. restored Quebec to France.