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The Jefferson Era

Authored by Derek Ugland

Social Studies

8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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