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The Jefferson Era

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    A little game to review the presidency of Thomas Jefferson
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  • In the presidential election of 1800, Republicans Thomas Jefferson and ______________ each received the same number of electoral votes.
    Aaron Burr
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  • The ______________________ broke the tie in the election of 1800 when Jefferson won on the thirty-sixth vote.
    House of Representatives
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  • Jefferson wanted to limit the power of the national ____________.
    Government
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  • The election of 1800 was important because it was the first time that one _____________ had replaced another in power in the United States.
    political party
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  • Under Jefferson, Congress allowed the ___________ to expire.
    Alien and Sedition Acts
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  • Even though he had originally opposed it, Jefferson agreed to support the ___________ which the Federalists had created.
    Bank of the United States
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  • Chief Justice _____________ wrote the Supreme Court opinion that established the Court's power to check the power of the other branches of government.
    John Marshall
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  • _________________ was an important Supreme Court ruling because it confirmed the Court's power to declare acts of Congress illegal.
    Marbury v. Madison
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  • The principle of ____________ made the judiciary a much stronger part of the national government.
    Judicial review
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  • The ___________________ nearly tripled the size of the United States
    Louisiana Purchase
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  • _________________ of France offered to sell Louisiana to the United States because he needed money for his war with Great Britain
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Expeditions into western territories greatly increased American knowledge of the ______
    West
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  • President Jefferson sent _____________ and ____________ to explore the Louisiana Territory and to look for a river route to the Pacific Ocean.
    Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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  • ___________ was very important because many American good passed through its port at the mouth of the Mississippi River
    New Orleans
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  • Many Americans believed that this country was behind efforts to provide military aid to Native Americans in the western frontier.
    Great Britain
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  • Americans were angered by this British practice of forcing people to serve in their army or navy.
    impressment
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