Thomas Jefferson

Question 1

Who controlled the outcome and chose Jefferson

Answer 1

Alexander Hamilton

Question 2

name three changes made by Jefferson

Answer 2

1) size of military reduced
2) amount of national debt reduced
3) # of federal employees increased

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson’s political party

Answer 3

democratic Republican

Question 4

judiciary act of 1801

Answer 4

• increase number of federal judges to 16
• John Adams filled all open positions with Federalist judges between election of 1800 and Jeffersons inauguration and 1801

Question 5

Marbury versus Madison

Answer 5

• supreme Court protect their power keeping judicial review

* supreme court rules against marbury

Question 6

judicial review

Answer 6

give Supreme Court the power to decide which laws are constitutional

Question 7

what did Thomas Jefferson want

Answer 7

wanted the nation to be of independent farmers or common man

Question 8

Hamilton versus burr

Answer 8

• Burr challenges Hamilton and kills him

* Hamilton never fired a shot

Question 9

how much did the US pay for the Louisiana purchase

Answer 9

$15 million

Question 10

Lewis and Clark lead a volunteer force called what

Answer 10

corps of discovery

Question 11

Lewis and Clark expedition goals

Answer 11

• explore river and find water route across continent

* establish good relations with the Indians

Question 12

Sacajawea

Answer 12

her language skills and knowledge of geography would be of great value to the expedition

Question 13

four ventures into Louisiana purchase commissioned by Thomas Jefferson 1804 through 1807

Answer 13

• Lewis and Clark - northern regions
• zebulon pike - rocky mt and sw
• thomas freeman/peter curtis
• hunter/dunbar - ouachita river and hot springs

Question 14

Thomas Nuttall

Answer 14

English biologist who documented his travels at the Arkansas River Valley and red river region

Question 15

Henry Schoolcraft

Answer 15

publish first written description of Arkansas Ozarks geography, vegetation, wildlife, and inhabitation

Question 16

1818 through 1819 H Schoolcraft

Answer 16

explored land from Missouri the white river, northwestern near Springfield, Missouri, then south by canoe on white river to present day Batesville (Independence County)

Question 17

New madrid earthquakes

Answer 17

• 1811-1812//series a powerful earthquakes rocked Mississippi river valley
• Area around St. Francis river in north E. Arkansas Was Center of earthquakes

Question 18

sunken lands

Answer 18

term refers to parts of Craighead, Mississippi, and critter den counties that shifted in Saint during new madrid earthquakes which took place between 1811 and 1812

Question 19

Louisiana purchase survey

Answer 19

• to pay its veterans with land

* to be sold

Question 20

early territorial status

Answer 20

Louisiana territory 1805

Missouri territory 1812

Question 21

pikes expedition

Answer 21

• went across Great Plains-looked for source of red river in Arkansas River
• tried to get to peak known as pikes Peak, but faile
• Head south to find red river but ran into Rio Grande River

Question 22

Who were the two presidential candidates that tied with 73 votes

Answer 22

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr