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Chapter 9: The Era of Thomas Jefferson
Why did the election of 1800 have to be
decided in the House of Representatives? (310)
What does laissez-faire mean? (311)
What were Jefferson’s two main goals as
president? (312)
How did Jefferson reduce federal expenses and
power? (312)
Where did tax revenue come from after
Jefferson eliminated all federal taxes? (312)
What action did Jefferson take as President to
help those convicted under the Sedition Act?
(312)
What is judicial review? (313)
Why was New Orleans important to the United
States? (314)
What important right did the United States gain
with the Pinckney Treaty of 1795? (314)
Why would France have trouble defending
Louisiana if it did not control Haiti? (315)
Why did President Jefferson hesitate to
approve the purchase of the Louisiana
Territory? (316)
What was the significance of the Louisiana
Purchase? (316)
What goals did Jefferson set for Lewis and
Clark’s expedition? (317)
Who was Sacagawea and how was she
important to the success of the Lewis and Clark
expedition? (318)
What is a continental divide? (318)
How was Pike’s expedition similar to that of
Lewis and Clark’s? How was it different?
(319)
How did European nations protect themselves
against raids by the Barbary pirates? (322)
Why did Britain and France attack American
merchant ships? (323)
What is impressment? (323)
What impact do you think impressment had on
the performance of the British navy? (323)
What is an embargo? (324)
Why did President Jefferson place an embargo
on foreign goods in 1807? (324)
What effect did the Embargo Act have? (324)
How did settlement in the West affect Native
Americans who lived there? (325)
What actions did Tecumseh urge on his
followers? (326)
Why did many call for war with Britain? (327)
What is nationalism? (327)
Who were the war hawks? (327)
Why was the United States unprepared for
war? (328)
What is a blockade? (328)
Why did New England oppose the war? What
was the purpose of the Hartford Convention?
(331)
How did the War of 1812 end? (330)
What were some results of the war that were
not expressly written in the treaty? (331)
Chapter 10: A Changing Nation
What happened to the Federalist Party after the
War of 1812? (340)
Why is the period after the War of 1812 known
as the “Era of Good Feelings”? (340)
Explain the regional differences that began to
develop. (341)
Why did the first Bank of the United States cease
to exist? (342)
What problems developed without the Bank and
what was done about it? (342)
Why were British goods cheaper than American
goods? (342)
What is dumping? (342)
According to Henry Clay, how would his
American System benefit the economy? (343)
What did McCulloch v. Maryland decide? (343)
What is capitalism? (344)
What is interstate commerce? (344)
What effect did Andrew Jackson’s attack on
Florida have on the government of Spain? (345)
How did the American and French revolutions
impact Latin America? (346)
How did Great Britain and the United States
benefit from the independence of Spain’s
American colonies? (347)
Why did the United States act alone to protect
the freedom of the new nations of Latin
America? (347)
What was the Monroe Doctrine? (347)
Why did Britain grant some self-government to
Canada? (348)
Why did Jackson’s supporters claim there had
been a “corrupt bargain” in the election of 1824?
(350)
Which groups did not benefit from increased
suffrage in the United States? (352)
What is the spoils system? (354)
How did the Cherokee adapt? (355)
How did the Supereme Court rule in the case of
Worcester v Georgia? (357)
Why did President Jackson object to this
decision? (357)
What mistakes in planning did the government
make before removing Native Americans? (358)
What were the results of the removal? (359)
What were the arguments for and against the
Second Bank of the United States? (362)
How does the Tenth Amendment limit federal
powers? (364)
Why did states’ rights become an issue in the
1820s? (364)
What is nullification? (364)
What was the position of Vice President John C.
Calhoun on nullification? (364)
How was the crisis settled? (365)
What was the main cause of the Panic of 1837?
(367)