8th Grade History
Section 14 Review
Answer on notebook paper and be sure to number each question. Include or rewrite the
question as part of your answer. In other words, “What color is the Bear?” You must write the
essay (#26) to get full credit for the review.
1. What did President Jefferson intend to redirect the government away from?
2. How did Jefferson exercise frugal and limited government?
3. What was the result of Marbury vs. Madison?
4. Who was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.?
5. Who said, “Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”?
6. What did Napoleon force Spain to do in 1800?
7. Who would have been hurt if France had closed the Mississippi river to U.S. commerce?
8. What was Napoleon’s counter offer when Jefferson tried to buy New Orleans?
9. Why did Napoleon lose interest in a colonial empire?
10. What did Jefferson ask Lewis and Clark to do?
11. What did the maps that Lewis and Clark do?
12. Who was the main guide and translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition?
13. Who did France declare on in 1803?
14. Why did the U.S. declare war on Great Britain?
15. What caused the Battle of Tippecanoe?
16. What was the result of the Embargo Act?
17. Why did War Hawks press Madison to declare war on Great Britain?
18. What did the War of 1812 cause?
19. Why did the War of 1812 cause the Northeast to suffer?
20. What did accusations of disloyalty lead to?
21. What did the Peace Treaty of Ghent provide for?
22. Who wrote the “Star Spangled Banner?”
23. Who was the U.S. president during the War of 1812?
24. Why was the Battle of New Orleans unnecessary?
25. What was Jefferson’s greatest accomplishment as president?
26. Write an essay analyzing Thomas Jefferson’s statement quoted below. What do you think he
meant? In what ways do you agree or disagree with him? Would you have recommended the
Louisiana Purchase to Congress as Jefferson did? Why?
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“The Louisiana Purchase is a noble prospect…for ages…. It will secure the blessings of civil
and religious freedom to millions yet unborn. If so, we should have such an empire for
liberty as the world has never surveyed since the creation.”