Multiple Choice Practice in the Jefferson Era

“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 ciris 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

1. 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

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“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 ciris 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 be most likely to 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

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“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 ciris 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 US sailors

• the controversy over the Louisiana Purchase

• the actions by the Barbary pirates

• the findings of the Lewis and Clark expedition

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"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

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"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 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 Act

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Federalist Conspiracy

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"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

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Match the following

• Macon's Bill No. 2

• Reopened foreign trade with all nations except for Britain and France.

• Embargo Act of 1807

• The US would reopen trade with whichever country agreed first to respect American neutrality, and embargo their opponent.

• War of 1812

• War with Great Britain over pressures on the frontier and violations of neutrality at sea.

• Nonintercourse Act 1809

• The war that lasted from 1801 to 1805 over failure of the United States to pay tributes to stop attacks on merchant ships by Barbary Pirates.

• Tripoli War

• Failure of a foreign policy, which was enacted to try and force Britain and France to stop violating American neutrality at sea, but just wound up hurting the American economy instead.

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