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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were the main candidates for the election of 1800 | John Addams, Arron Burr, Thomas Jefferson. |
| Why did they spend six days at 36 separate times voting? | Arron Burr and Jefferson kept tying. |
| Where was Jefferson's inauguration? | New capital city of Washington D.C |
| What were federalist concerns about Jefferson | They few him as radicalistic, and thought of the French revolution. |
| What did Jefferson keep? | Hamilton's National bank and Federalist institutions |
| What are some things Jefferson did as president? | He lowered taxes and reduced the size of the federal Judiciary. He continued to support the power of states and championed low government spending. |
| Who would Jefferson meet over dinner? | Foreign Leaders and members of Congress |
| How would Jefferson smooth federalist's fears about his presidency? | He wrote his 1801 "Inaugural Address", where he states that the radical chaos of the French Revolution couldn't happen to the United States, and he said we are all Federalists and Republicans. |
| Who laid a basis for a plan for our school system? | Thomas Jefferson |
| Where did Thomas stock his books | Library of Congress |
| What did Thomas do in cases of religion? | Pen America's Creed |
| What allowed Thomas to have a great education? | He was born into one of Virginia's foremost families |
| What did Thomas study when he was younger? | Law |
| Who did Thomas meet while he was studying law? | His wife, Martha Wayles Skelton |
| Where was Jefferson's house before he moved into the While house? | He designed a home in Monticello, on land in Charlottesville, Virginia |
| What was Monticello inspired by? | Ancient Greek and Roman temples |
| What type of seeds was in Jefferson's garden? | Europe, Mexico, some even from Lewis and Clark's expedition |
| How did Jefferson go in deep debt? | His lavish Lifestyle and his building Projects at Monticello |
| What did The judiciary Act of 1801 do? | It reduced the number of Justices to 5, and allowed Addams to appoint many lower court judges called "Midnight Judges" |
| Who did Adams choose to be the new chief justice | John Marshal |
| What was the case of Marbury v. Madison | Addam signed the commission for judge Marbury to be a judge, but left office before it was delivered. Madison blocked it from commission. |
| (m v. m) Marbury's POV | Since Adams had already signed it, Marbury wanted the Supreme court to force Madison to give him his commission |
| Court Ruling in (m v. m) | Marbury is entitled to have the commission delivered to him, and the court could issue a writ commanding Madison to deliver the commission. It is not legal for them to issue this wit, for it is unconstitutional. |
| Judicial review | the power to invalidate any law the court deems as unconstitutional |
| Why did Jefferson want to acquire the New Orleans or Louisianan land? | The population there was growing steadily, and farmers were settling the area and shipping their crops down. From there, ships carried cargo to ports all over the world. He thought that if France had the land, it would interfere with Ships heading there |
| Who over threw the revolutionary government in france? | Napolean Bonaparte |
| How did Napolean acquire the land? | by signing a secrete treaty with Spain to return the Louisianna to France |
| Why dud Spain trade the land away? | They thought with only 50,000 settlers there, it was too expensive to maintain. |
| Who helped negotiate the purchase of land? | James Monroe |
| Who led a successful revolution to free slaves in French colony in the Caribbean? | Toussaint L'Ouverture |
| What caused Napolean to sell the entire Louisianna Territory to North America for 15 million dollars? | Most of his forces had been reduced by yellow fever, and he had enough of the Americas. |
| Where did Meriwether Lewies and William Clark's Corps of Discovery travel to? | 8,000 miles from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean, then back to St. Louis (west). |
| How many types of animals did Lewis and Clark discover? | over 120, including mule deer, and coyote |
| How many plants did they document? | 178 new species, including the big maple leaf, the Oregon Crabapple, and the Ponderosa pine. |
| What did Jefferson wish Lewis and Clark would find | The Northwest Passage, for he wanted to control it |
| What were the essential principles of government? | Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nation. |
| What happened at first, when Napolean began war with Britian | The USs were profiting from it by staying neutral and selling to both sides |
| What is Impressment? | It is when capturing A ship to serve in your navy, like what the British did to America to prevent trade during the war |
| What did the non-importation act do? | it banned British imports |
| What caused Jefferson to sign the Non-Importation Act | Napoleon threatened to seize any ships that engaged in trade with the British |
| How did the British respond to the Non-Importation Act? | They continued impressment, firing on U.S coastal towns, and entering Chesapeake Bay |
| What was the Embargo Act of 1807 | Congress passed it tin response to the chaos of their trade because of the war. It restricted all foreign imports from arriving in American Harbors |
| What could the president use to punish smugglers | militia |
| What was the downside of the Embargo Act | It had horrible effects on the US economy, for the treasury's chief source of income was on taxes placed on imported or export goods |
| Why did congress pass laws to re-open the trade to every nation besides Spain and Britian | New England farmers whose business deepened on European trade suffered and demanded the Embargo to end |
| How did Jefferson win his second election in a landslide | An endorsement by James Madison |
| Who began to speak out against the destruction of native's home, and critized Natives who sold their land? | Tecumseh (Shawnee chief) |
| Which tribes were apart of Tecumseh's alliance? | Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, |
| What is the Treaty of Fort Wayne | Native American Leaders who signed the agreement sold 2.9 million acres of their land to the government for a penny per acre |
| What did the Treaty of Fort Wayne cause? | It inspired many more natives to join Tecumseh's cause |
| What did Henery Proctor give to Tecumseh | A tomahawk |
| What is Prophetstown? | A town established by Tecumseh on the Tippecanoe river in the Indiana Territory, full of Natives who opposed the US. |
| Who was the prophet? | Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh's brother |
| What is a Prophet? | Someone who is believed to deliver messages from a God or other divine source. |
| What Happened in the Battle of Tippecanoe | Governor of the Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, sent 1,000 men to attack it while Tecumseh was away trying to recruit Natives in the South, and Their brother led an attack on Harrison's camp, and was forced to retreat. The town ded. |
| What are War Hawks? | Americans Who Favored War |
| Why did War Hawks want war? | They believed that British had already formed alliance with Natives against America, and the new nation had to demonstrate its viability, or international stage |
| What did War Hawks do to encourage War? | Their anger boiled over the capitol, resulting in a call to arms. |
| Who did Congress Declare war on in the war of 1812 | England |
| How did Americans feel about the war? | They had mixed feelings, and it was unpopular with New England Farmers and merchants for economic reasons. |
| Why was it hard to pay for the war? | The national bank's charter had expired, only leaving the less stable state banks to over war loans. and they lost money from lack of tariffs. |
| Why did Britian first ignore the United States War? | They were fighting with Napolean. |
| What forced Britian to act in the war? | When America attacked Detroit (did not go well for us) |
| What was America's first win? | When Oliver Hazard Perry and his fleet defeated British troops on lake erie |
| How did Tecumseh die? | Fighting for the British. |
| What happened in the battle of the Thames | William Henery took back the land from the British while defeating them |
| What did the British do after they finished the war with France | send more troops to North America, burn down the Capitol, and white house after the captured Washington DC, attack Fort McHenry and Baltimore, Maryland, but failed to take the city. |
| Who wrote our National anthem | Francis Scott Key |
| What was the Treaty of Ghent? | British and American Delegates meeting in Ghent, a city in Belgium, that ended the way |
| Who was Andrew Jackson? | A military leader from tennsee who defended New Orleans from the British, capturing or killing more that 2,00 British soldiers |
| Why did America win the war | It confirmed US sovereignty and boosted American's self-confidence and patriotism, it also encouraged expansion and economic prosperity. |
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