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Chapter 10 Quiz

Vocabulary

Question: What is an embargo?
Answer: an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports

Question: What is tribute?
Answer: a stated sum or other valuable consideration paid by one sovereign or state to another in acknowledgment of subjugation or as the price of peace, security, protection, or the like.

Question: What is impressment?
Answer: the act of seizing people or property for public service or use

Question: What is foreign policy?
Answer: how a home nation interacts with other nations

Question: What is an economy?
Answer: the management of the resources of a community, country, .....with a view to its productivity.

People

Question: Who is John Marshall?
Answer: He was Adams' Secretary of State and Federalist Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He argued for federal law over state law and opposed the Democratic Republicans.

Question: Who is John Adams?
Answer: 2nd President of the US, responsible for midnight appointments

Question: Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Answer: leader of the Federalists, Hamilton helped defeat Burr and elect Jefferson as President, Was killed in a duel with Burr

Question: Who was Aaron Burr?
Answer: 3rd Vice President of the US under Thomas Jefferson,
killed Hamilton in a duel

Question: Which Native American leader died while fighting for the British in the War of 1812 in the Battle of Thames?
Answer: Tecumseh

War of 1812

Question: Name 2 reasons for the cause of the War of 1812.
Answer: Britain's seizure of American ships
impressment of American sailors
restriction of trade between the US and France

Question: When did James Madison declare the war?
Answer: June of 1812

Question: What ended the War of 1812?
Answer: Treaty of Ghent

Question: How was Dolley Madison associated with the War of 1812?
Answer: When British troops entered the capital to burn the White House, she rescued a portrait of George Washington.

Question: List 2 effects of the War of 1812.
Answer: respect from other countries
new national heroes
increased American patriotism
weakened Native American resistance
US manufacturing grew

Miscellaneous

Question: Who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"?
Answer: Frances Scott Key

Question: What is a protective tariff?
Answer: makes goods from other countries more expensive.

Question: What do Washington, Adams, and Jefferson all have in common?
Answer: They all kept the US out of major wars as President.

Question: When Jefferson and Burr tied in the election of 1800, who decided the election?
Answer: House of Representatives

Question: Which amendment passed because of the election of 1800, and what did it state?
Answer: 12th, requires separate ballots for the President and Vice President

Louisiana Purchase

Question: What geographical barrier did Lewis and Clark have to cross to reach the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Rocky Mountains

Question: What doubled the size of the US?
Answer: Louisiana Purchase

Question: Who went to explore the new west because of the Louisiana Purchase?
Answer: Lewis and Clark

Question: What was the name of the Native American woman that guided Lewis and Clark through their expedition?
Answer: Sacajawea

Question: What was the geographic and economic motivation for buying the Louisiana Purchase?
Answer: controlling the port of New Orleans