JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY AP USH
Using Pageant Ch. 11, and AMSCO, Ch. 7 and 8, provide full and complete answers to the following. Please note that you will be randomly and individually called upon in class to answer at least one of these questions so be prepared! You will receive a grade based on your preparation and response. Use your Pageant text as your primary source; use other sources for information not available in your texts.
1. Discuss the campaign in the election of 1800: who were the candidates and their parties and what type of mudslinging took place.
2. Explain the outcome of the election of 1800 and the situation that prompted passage of the 12th Amendment.
3. Why were the Republican presidential and congressional victories in 1800 really not a "revolution" as Jefferson proclaimed?
4. John Adams was the only Federalist to serve as President of the U.S. However, the Federalists made many valuable contributions to the new nation. Refresh your memory and assess these contributions.
5. Explain (if you can!) Jefferson’s position on the slavery issue.
6. What was the Jefferson-Sally Hemings controversy?
7. Identify the primary democratic principles in Jefferson's first inaugural address; identify his position on specific policies in this address. (Yes, you will need to look up this primary source document – it is not in your text.)
8. Evaluate the immediate changes instituted by Jefferson and support whether they reflected the principles & policies espoused in his first inaugural address.
9. Explain the Judiciary Act of 1801 and Jefferson’s objections to it.
10. Explain John Marshall’s ruling in the Marbury v. Madison decision and Jefferson’s reaction to this decision.
11. Explain the additional measures Jefferson used to overturn former Federalist actions.
12. Evaluate Jefferson’s position on the military and his reasoning for that position.
13. Analyze the cause, outcome & effect of the war with Tripoli. (Barbary pirates)
14. Explain why Spain's return of Louisiana to France caused Jefferson such concern.
15. Assess the influence of the 1790 slave revolt in Haiti on the Louisiana Purchase; what fears did this revolt prompt in the U.S.?
16. Identify the terms of the Louisiana Purchase and the problems it presented to Jefferson; explain how the Louisiana Purchase was "as much Hamilton's doing as Jefferson's."
17. Explain the geographic and political effects of the Louisiana Purchase.
18. Based on the objectives of President Jefferson, evaluate the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
19. Analyze the cause, outcome and effect of Aaron Burr’s New England conspiracy.
20. Analyze the cause, outcome and effect of Aaron Burr’s Louisiana conspiracy.
21. Assess the initial effects in America of the early years of Napoleon’s war for European control; discuss the causes and effects - in America and Europe - of the British and French stalemate in 1807.
22. Explain the Chesapeake & Leopard affair in 1807.
23. Jefferson's position of military neutrality led him to institute the Embargo Act, in spite of the clamoring for war after the Chesapeake affair. Identify the terms of the Embargo Act and evaluate its effectiveness.
24. Prepare a CAPPS analysis of the Embargo Act cartoon. (Please note, this assignment and the cartoon are on Edmodo. You will submit your CAPPS analysis via Edmodo.
25. See “Historical Perspectives,” p. 142-143 AMSCO and provide a full and
complete answer to the question posed.
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