The Jefferson Era

What goals did Jefferson outline in his first inagural speech? Select 3 best answers.

• Support a strong federal government

• Support state government in all their rights

• A wise and frugal government

• Limit the power and size of the federal government

What did Jefferson accomplish as president? Select 3 best answers.

• Reduced the national debt/

  Cut down on military expenses

• Increased national debt/incresed military spending

• Limited the number of federal government workers to a few hundred people

• Got rid of most federal taxes.  Income would come from custom duties (tariffs) and the sale of western lands.

Who was John Marshall?

• Jefferson's Vice President

• Speaker of the House

• Leader of the US military under Jefferson

• Supreme Court Justice who established judicial review

Which case represented the first time the Supreme Court ruled an act of another branch of the federal government unconstitutional (thereby establishing the Supreme Court’s right to Judicial Review)?

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Marbury v. Madison

• Miranda v. Arizona

Why did farmers need access to the Mississippi River?

• To take baths in the ice cold water

• to transport their goods to eastern markets

• to trade with the western half of the U.S.

• to use the water for crop irrigation

Why was the Louisiana Purchase such a significant event for the young United States? Select 2 that apply.

• It doubled the size of the U.S.

• It ensured Napoleon Bonaparte would not lay claim to those lands

• It only cost them $15 million

• It gave the U.S. complete control of the Mississippi River and port of New Orleans.

What WASN'T a goal of Lewis and Clark’s expedition?

• Recommend sites for future forts

• Document findings about the territory’s people, plants, and animals

• Map out a route to the Pacific Ocean for Western settlers

• Hopefully find a northwest passage, a waterway across North America

What did Lewis and Merriwther’s and Pike’s expedition do? Select 3 that apply.

• Collected information on people, plants, and animals

• Mapped the geography of the Western U.S.

• Inspired people to move Westward

• Discovered a path to the Mississippi River