A) his wish that the office not become a lifelong position
B) his death
C) ill health
D) a constitutional amendment establishing term limits
E) a plunge in popularity following Jay's Treaty
G) A) and D)
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B) False
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A) targeted recent arrivals to the United States.
B) led to the jailing of Federalist editors.
C) was more stringent and oppressive than similar laws in Europe.
D) led Jefferson to argue that states, not the federal government, could punish seditious speech.
E) was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court two years later.
G) A) and C)
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A) he required the tribe to cede more than half its land to the federal government.
B) he made sure to stipulate that the Creeks who fought with him would keep their land.
C) he retired from public life.
D) he went on to suffer a crushing defeat in the Battle of New Orleans.
E) he decided to prohibit freed men of color from joining his military ranks.
G) A) and C)
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A) called for the revival of traditional Indian culture.
B) promoted Euro-American farming techniques.
C) disagreed with his brother Tecumseh's resistance to federal policies.
D) urged Indians to consume more American products.
E) called for Shawnee representation in Congress.
G) All of the above
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B) False
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A) Whereas Shays's Rebellion featured wealthy participants, the Whiskey Rebellion was solely a revolt of the lower class
B) Whereas Shays's Rebellion was put down by force, participants in the Whiskey Rebellion dispersed voluntarily.
C) Whereas the federal government intervened in the Whiskey Rebellion, it did not intervene in Shays's Rebellion.
D) Whereas the Whiskey Rebellion involved deadly violence, Shays's Rebellion was a peaceful protest
E) Whereas Shays's Rebellion protested taxes, the Whiskey Rebellion opposed the prohibition of alcohol.
G) A) and B)
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A) Mathew Lyon
B) Patrick Henry
C) Sarah Morton
D) Mary Wollstonecraft
E) Benjamin Franklin
G) A) and B)
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A) French pirates held American merchant ships hostage, and Jefferson sent in the navy after his agreeing to pay a ransom failed to fix the problem.
B) Jefferson wanted to disarm the pasha of Tripoli, who had gathered weapons he planned to use against the United States.
C) Plantation owners wanted to import more Africans before the international slave trade became illegal in 1808, and they needed American firepower to help them do it.
D) Jefferson had tried to cut the naval budget, and Federalists had accused him of being wishy-washy; Jefferson wanted to show that he could be tough.
E) Tripoli had declared war on the United States after Jefferson refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates.
G) A) and E)
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A) Tenskwatawa wanted Native Americans to assimilate into white American culture.
B) Neolin advocated peaceful resistance against the British.
C) Both men wanted to sign treaties with white settlers and share the land.
D) Neolin wanted Native Americans to assimilate and adapt white American culture.
E) Both men wanted to reject the white man's culture.
G) All of the above
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A) All trade ceased between the two nations from 1814 to 1848.
B) Many Canadians migrated south into New England.
C) Americans continued to plan ways to gain Canada.
D) Stereotypes developed on both sides of the border that still resonate today.
E) The British asked that the Maine territory be incorporated into Canada.
G) All of the above
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A) It soured public opinion toward the Washington administration.
B) It heightened concerns about mob rule destroying American liberty.
C) It led to the War of 1812.
D) It established the right of judicial review.
E) It created animosity between America and France.
G) A) and C)
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A) Their call for secession from the union angered Republicans, who ousted them from the government.
B) Their elitism and distrust of popular self-government was at odds with the nation's increasingly democratic ethos.
C) Their advocacy for equal rights for Native Americans was unpopular with a large majority of farmers.
D) The southern plantation owners whose interests they championed were a too-small part of the electorate.
E) The delegates at the Republican Party's Hartford Convention voted to ban the Federalist Party.
G) A) and B)
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B) False
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A) England
B) Spain
C) the Netherlands
D) France
E) Canada
G) D) and E)
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A) a scientist who helped survey the new national capital.
B) the congressional leader of the opposition to Hamilton in the early 1790s.
C) the secretary of war who publicly disagreed with Washington over Indian policy.
D) an African-American slave whose capture inspired the Fugitive Slave Law.
E) the first black person elected to Congress when he won election in the "Revolution of 1800."
G) A) and D)
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A) gave the United States large tracts of land in the West.
B) gave Canada the option of joining the United States.
C) was a humiliating treaty for Britain.
D) restored the prewar status quo.
E) resulted in the United States losing land to Canada.
G) C) and D)
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A) The Adams administration discouraged the independence of black Haiti.
B) Thomas Jefferson celebrated it as another victory for liberty.
C) Most white Americans were glad to see France suffer the loss of its colony.
D) Most enslaved Americans opposed it for fear it would inspire a white crackdown on slave gatherings.
E) Many white Americans considered it evidence of blacks' unfitness for republican freedom.
G) C) and D)
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A) providing literary education programs to assimilate Indians into American literary culture
B) trying to prevent tribes from moving beyond the Mississippi River
C) encouraging tribes to adopt African-American slavery as a means of assimilating into American culture
D) encouraging traders to lend Indians money so they could attain a higher standard of living
E) prohibiting settled farms among Indians so they were not able to sustain themselves financially
G) B) and E)
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A) an "age of prophecy," marked by movements for the revitalization of Native American life
B) the "great weeping," marked by the utter hopelessness and lack of effort on the part of Native Americans
C) an "age of dissension," marked by the total rejection of white ways by all Native American leaders
D) a "period of abundance," marked by the final years before whites began infringing on Native American rights
E) the "migration to Europe," marked by the relocation of most Native Americans to European countries
G) A) and C)
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