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Chapter 09 Self-Quiz 1
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What was the theme of Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address?
He announced a New Deal for the American people to help them recover from a depressed economy.
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He attempted to put partisan bitterness of the previous decade to rest.
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He called for war against pirates operating along the Barbary Coast.
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He urged Americans to bear any burden to maintain freedom.
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How did Judge John Marshall use the case of Marbury v. Madison to expand the authority of the Supreme Court?
By overruling Marbury and ordering him to award Madison his patent.
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By establishing the principle of state reciprocity.
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By holding the actions of lower courts in error and ordering a new trial for Marbury.
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Through judicial review, he claimed the Court's authority to rule on the constitutionality of all governmental activities.
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Jefferson attempted to purchase New Orleans in 1802 and 1803 because
Pinckney's Treaty was just a 10-year lease.
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the British continued to block the facilities.
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He feared Napoleon Bonaparte's plan to establish a French empire in North America.
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All of the above.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was dispatched primarily to
establish trade with Indian tribes.
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prepare maps and test Spain's hold on Oregon.
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report on the physical features and the plant and animal life of the Louisiana Territory.
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All of the above.
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Lewis and Clark's mission was completed successfully, partially because
Army quartermaster and commissary corps provided adequate supplies.
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Indians generally accepted their explanation that they were interested only in trade, not additional territory.
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Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman, served as guide and interpreter.
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unfriendly Indians who lived along their route were mostly absent on hunting trips.
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Why was former Vice President Aaron Burr not convicted for treason?
Burr's popularity won him sympathy with the jury.
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His lawyers proved that the case against Burr was flimsy.
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Jurymen realized that the charges were more political than judicial.
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Justice John Marshall's narrow interpretation of treason.
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The War of 1812 officially ended on Christmas Eve 1814 with the signing of the Treaty of
London.
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Ghent.
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Paris.
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Washington.
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American shipping commerce in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was characterized by
export/import
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re-export
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carrying trade between two foreign ports
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all of the above.
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Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston launched the first successful
corporation.
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holding company.
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steamboat.
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venture capital investment firm.
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Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney were pioneers of what?
The Industrial Revolution.
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Development of the first viable railroad line in America.
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Educational reform.
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The age of canal building.
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What was the Waltham system?
Clock manufacturing center in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Integration of textile production from fiber to finished cloth.
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Method of removing tenacious seeds from the fiber of cotton with sufficient economy to increase cotton acreage.
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Network of connecting canals that enabled water transportation from Albany to Buffalo, New York.
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In the case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice Marshall wrote that
a federal income tax was unconstitutional.
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a slave was not automatically free just because he was transported to an area where slavery was not established by law.
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a state could not tax an institution created by the federal government because the power to tax it could lead to the power destroy it.
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Maryland could not force a change in Jack McCullough's contract to operate a ferry across Chesapeake Bay.
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Tecumseh's resistance movement was centered in
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Indiana Territory.
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Mississippi Territory.
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Michigan Territory.
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Joseph Smith
became the first missionary to reach the Willamette Indians in Oregon.
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experienced revelations that resulted in the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
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founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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preached at the Cane River Revival.
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Thomas Jefferson's embargo had which of the following effetcs?
It was a success, and European nations quickly capitulated
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It harmed large merchants, who were persecuted for smuggling.
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It unified the Democratic-Republican party.
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None of the above.
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The United States offered to buy Louisiana from Spain for $3.75 million.
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The United States Navy was unable to break the British naval blockade of the War of 1812.
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By the beginning of the 1800s, a gradual shift in local industries was beginning to occur, with shop owners interested in boosting production while cutting costs.
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By 1800, the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River was largely devoid of Indians.
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Both Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet) sought to create a pan-Indian alliance that sought to reject white culture and resist white encroachment on Indian lands.
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