Chapter 9 Study Guided Answers
SECTION 1- THE REPUBLICANS TAKE POWER
1. Candidates in the election of 1800 were:
John Adams for the Federalists ( with Charles Pinckney as his Vice Presidential candidate).
Thomas Jefferson ran for the Democratic- Republicans (with Aaron Burr his Vice Presidential candidate).
2. The two men who tied were Burr and Jefferson with 73 votes each.
3. Election was decided by the House of Representatives choosing Jefferson.
4. Alexander Hamilton used his influence to convince members of his party to withhold support for Burr and give it to Jefferson.
5. The problem that was evident in this election was solved by the 12th Amendment which was made part of the Constitution by 1804.
6. This was a French philosophy that Jefferson believed in that said to “let people choose” , it demonstrated Jefferson’s idea of a less government interference.
7. Jefferson reduced military spending, and tried to reduce the debt.
8. The three tasks that Jefferson wanted government involved in was:
1. delivery of the mail
2. collecting custom duties
3. conducting the census every 10 years
9. 16.
10. John Marshall served as CHIEF JUSTICE
11. this court case established the judicial power of—JUDICIAL REVIEW- which allows the court to review on the actions of the branches of Congress.
SECTION 2- LOUSIANA PURCHASE
12. Kentucky and Tennessee
13. SPAIN
14. FRANCE, 1802. Napoleon Bonaparte
15. Santo Domingo, Napoleon’s
16. 1803, New Orleans, 15 million
17. Corps (of) Discovery. Meriwether—William
Find the source of the Missouri River, gather geographic information, make friends with the Native Americans
18. St. Louis, Missouri
19. an African slave, 1805, Clatsop
20. 1806
21. Mississippi River’s source, present day area of Colorado( Rockies – Grand Peak)
22. secede, New England, New York
23. New York, Alexander Hamilton, 1804, New Jersey….Hamilton dies of a gunshot wound.
SECTION 3- A TIME OF CONFLICT
24. Mediterranean, Barbary Coast, Africa, tribute
25. he was a naval captain who secretly made his way to the captured U.S.S. Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor and burned the ship so pirates could not use it.
26. Great Britain, France…..impressment
27. it prohibited all trade(import and export)with ALL nations.
28. Shawnee, the Prophet
29. William Henry Harrison, Tippecanoe…..this battle convinced the Indians to ally themselves with the British in the upcoming war with America.
30. Henry Clay , John Calhoun
31. the cause of the war—impressment- was stopped by the British Parliament shortly before the American congress declared war on Great Britain ( time for news to travel prohibited America from knowing this until after the declaration of war was passed).
SECTION 4- THE WAR OF 1812
32. Mr. Madison’s War, (Ft)Detroit
33. commander of naval forces on Lake Erie—September 10th , 1813—“we have met the enemy and they are ours.”
34. the Shawnee leader, Tecumseh died in this battle.
35. U.S.S. Constitution, “Old Ironsides”
36. Horseshoe Bend, Creek
37. Baltimore, Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem as he watched Ft. McHenry being attacked by the British.
38. convinced the British that the war was too costly to continue and convinced them to end the war.
39. Ghent, Belgium, New Orleans, Andrew Jackson