American Pageant - Ch 11 True/False

In the campaign of 1800, the Federalists criticized Jefferson's governmental ideas but avoided attacking him personally.

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An unexpected deadlock with Aaron Burr meant that Jefferson had to be elected by the House of Representatives.

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• False

As president, Jefferson attempted to exemplify his principles of democracy and equality by reducing formality and hierarchy in official Washington.

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• False

To carry out his Revolution of 1800, Jefferson directly overturned the Federalist tariff and Bank of the United States.

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• False

The case of Marbury v Madison established the principle that the president could appoint but not remove Supreme Court justices.

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Jefferson cut the size of the United States Army to twenty-five hundred men because he believed that a large standing army posed a danger of dictatorship and could embroil the nation in unnecessary foreign wars.

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• False

Jefferson's envoys to Paris initially intended to buy on New Orleans and the immediate vicinity.

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Jefferson's deepest doubt about the Louisiana Purchase was that the price of $15 million was to high.

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Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery developed a rich scientific knowledge of the West and discovered an overland American route to the Pacific.

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Former vice president Aaron Burr's conspiracies to break apart the United States demonstrated the fragility of the American government's control of the trans-Appalachian West.

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• False