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