The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816, Chapter 7 AMSCO

"I am ready to allow, Mr. President, that both Great Britain and France have given us abundant cause for war .... My plan would be, and my first wish is, to prepare for it-to put the country in complete armor-in the attitude imperiously demanded in a crisis of war, and to which it must bbrought before any war can be effective. . . . I must call on every member of this Senate to pause before he leaps into or crosses the Rubicon-declaring war is passing the Rubicon in reality."

-Senator Obadiah German of New York, speech in the Senate, June 1812.

In the United States, support for the War of 1812 was the strongest from

• frontier settlers who wanted land and protection from American

  Indians

• New England merchants who feared impressment

• Protestants who had religious sympathies with Great Britain

• "Quids" who held classic Democratic-Republican beliefs

"I am ready to allow, Mr. President, that both Great Britain and France have given us abundant cause for war .... My plan would be, and my first wish is, to prepare for it-to put the country in complete armor-in the attitude imperiously demanded in a crisis of war, and to which it must be brought before any war can be effective. . . . I must call on every member of this Senate to pause before he leaps into or crosses the Rubicon-declaring war is passing the Rubicon in reality."

-Senator Obadiah German of New York, speech in the Senate, June 1812.

Who of the following would most likely agree with German's position on the war?

• John Calhoun and other politicians from the South

• Henry Clay and other politicians from the West

• James Madison and other politicians from the executive branch

• Merchants from New England

"I am ready to allow, Mr. President, that both Great Britain and France have given us abundant cause for war .... My plan would be, and my first wish is, to prepare for it-to put the country in complete armor-in the attitude imperiously demanded in a crisis of war, and to which it must be brought before any war can be effective. . . . I must call on every member of this Senate to pause before he leaps into or crosses the Rubicon-declaring war is passing the Rubicon in reality."

-Senator Obadiah German of New York, speech in the Senate, June 1812.

Which of the following is the best support for German's claim that the United States has "abundant cause for war"?

• the impressment of U.S. sailors

• the controversy over the Louisiana Purchase

• the actions by the Barbary pirates

• the findings of the Lewis and Clark expedition

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and

to violate would be oppression. "We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are

all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ...

"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801.

Which of the following describes a policy of Jefferson's that reflects the attitude toward Federalists expressed in this speech?

• He adopted a Federalist plan for increasing the size of the military.

• He appealed to Federalists by increasing taxes to pay for new roads.

• He attempted to gain the trust of Federalists by continuing the

  national bank.

• He showed that party was unimportant by appointing some Federalists to his cabinet.

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ..."Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801.

Jefferson's statement "that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect" was supported by his actions with regard to

• the case of Marbury v. Madison

• the Alien and Sedition Acts

• the Louisiana Purchase

• the Federalist Conspiracy

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. "We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ..."Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

-Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801.

Jefferson's call to avoid entangling alliances is similar to advice found in

• the Declaration of Independence

• The Federalist Papers

• The Kentucky Resolutions

• Washington's Farewell Address

"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing .... [I] come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear the treaty ... but I would say to him: '"Sir, you have liberty to return to your own country.'

"Once, nor until lately, there was no white man on this continent. ... It then all belonged to red men .... Once a happy race, since made miserable by the white people, who are never contented but always encroaching. The way,

and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land .... For it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. For no part has a right to sell."

-Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison, August 1810.

Tecumseh believed that which of the following would be the best way for the American Indians to respond to the desire of white settlers for land?

• Signing a treaty with the United States.

• Joining the British in order to stop Westward Expansion

• Moving Westward to lands unoccupied by American Indians

• Forming a Confederacy among all American Indians.

"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing .... [I] come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear the treaty ... but I would say to him: '"Sir, you have liberty to return to your own country.'

"Once, nor until lately, there was no white man on this continent. ... It then all belonged to red men .... Once a happy race, since made miserable by the white people, who are never contented but always encroaching. The way,

and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land .... For it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. For no part has a right to sell."

-Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison, August 1810.

Based on this excerpt, which of the following would Tecumseh most likely have objected to?

• The War of 1812

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

• British actions on the Western frontier

• The Louisiana Purchase