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27 Cards in this Set
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In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man.
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True
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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions put forth the idea of secession.
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False
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During the Adams presidency, Thomas Jefferson opposed the suppression of political dissent by federal government—but not by state government.
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True
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ewis and Clarke were guided by Pocahontes across the Bitterroot Mountains.
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False
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President Thomas Jefferson refused to purchase the Louisiana Territory because it was an affront to his strict constructionist view of the Constitution, but Congress overrode his veto in purchasing the Louisiana Territory.
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False
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The democratic ferment of the 1790s drew much inspiration from the French Revolution and British radicalism.
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True
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Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.
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False
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In the Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson led a coup against the administration of John Quincy Adams.
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False
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The War of 1812 was ended only after the British pledged to cease the impressment of American sailors.
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False
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The Haitian Revolution and Gabriel’s rebellion convinced large numbers of white southerners that slavery had to go.
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False
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One of Lewis and Clarke’s tasks was to record information about the flora and fauna they encountered.
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True
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The discoveries made by Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the West persuaded Jefferson to go ahead with the Louisiana Purchase.
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False
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The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
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False
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In 1798, the United States was involved in a "quasi-war" with Spain.
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False
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The main target of the Sedition Act was the British.
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False
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Alexander Hamilton shot Aaron Burr in a hunting accident.
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False
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In consequence of the December 1814 Hartford Convention, the Federalist Party grew in strength and vigor, as "Mr. Madison’s War" was clearly unpopular.
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False
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The Barbary Wars were the United States’ first contact with the Islamic World.
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True
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The Whiskey Rebellion reinforced Federalist beliefs in the need for a strong standing army.
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True
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Jefferson was the first president to begin his term in Washington, D.C.
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True
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Jefferson’s embargo on U.S. exports proved an economic disaster for American port towns.
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True
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No one was ever convicted under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.
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False
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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions condemned state laws against seditious speech.
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False
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The Haitian Revolution renewed fears of a slave rebellion in the United States.
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True
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The "Revolution of 1800" was against the French.
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False
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James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," opposed Congress’s even receiving a petition from slaves from North Carolina.
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True
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The Embargo of 1807 set the stage for vast economic prosperity in the United States.
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False
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