please help with my homework?

Jefferson’s comments in 1801 about the agreement between Spain and France showed this:

Happiness to see that Spain was losing control of Florida

Worry about the debt owed to American citizens by France
Concern about how the agreement might affect U.S. foreign relations
Warning to Congress to take immediate action

Why did Jefferson want to send Livingston and Monroe to France in 1803?

Make sure Spain ceded Louisiana back to France
Offer to purchase the Louisiana territory from France

Negotiate a way for the U.S. to gain control of New Orleans
Negotiate a peace treaty with Napoleon Bonaparte

Who is a plenipotentiary?

An agent who has full power to conduct business on behalf of his government
A person with the responsibility of collecting taxes
Someone appointed by the Vice-President of the United States

A bank official responsible for collecting money owed from foreign countries

Pay is to debt as cession is to ______.

Taxes

Territory

Amendment
War

On January 18, 1803, Jefferson warned Congress that the Native Americans in areas west of the Mississippi River were:

Unwilling to trade with American settlers

Decreasing in population

Focusing on farming as a way of life
Refusing to sell land

What was the main purpose Jefferson gave to the Senate and House of Representatives for an expedition to explore the Louisiana territory?

Increase trading with Native Americans
Push British fur traders out of the Columbia River valley

Find a water route through the Rocky Mountains
Locate the source of the Missouri River

What was the main reason Jefferson asked for an appropriation for the expedition in 1803?

To provide a reward to the first man to return with a map to the Pacific Ocean
To have money to bribe Native Americans for help crossing rivers

To buy accoutrements for the expedition
To support the families in case the men did not return

Where was the treaty known of the Louisiana Purchase first signed?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Orleans, Louisiana

Washington D.C.

Paris, France

According to the terms of the treaty signed on April 30, 1803, France agreed to give full sovereignty of what to the United States?

Florida, New Orleans and the entire Louisiana territory

Control of the Mississippi River
City of New Orleans
Louisiana territory

Terms of the Louisiana Purchase gave the U.S. government only six months in which to _____ the treaty.

void
ratify
cede
acquisition

Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the power to ____________________.

Make treaties

Buy land

Repay foreign debts
Declare war

In his Second Inaugural Address in 1805, Jefferson provided several reasons to be happy with the Louisiana Purchase. Which of the following was NOT one of these reasons?

More farmers meant paying off the money owed to France more quickly.
A larger country did not mean a less efficient government.
Help keep America involved in the affairs of other countries.

Increased opportunities for Americans.

What did the Louisiana Purchase promise to give people already living in the territory?

Repay the money they owed the U.S. government
Immediate and full U.S. citizenship
Fair payment for their houses and belongings
Nothing would change for them

What one thing did Jefferson tell Congress in 1803 would help the U.S. stay out of the affairs of European countries?

Pacific Ocean
Religious differences
Different political beliefs
Atlantic Ocean

Jefferson’s main interest in securing the “property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters” was to

Protect the peace and security of the U.S.
Improve commerce
Both of the above
None of the above

Dude this looks like an entire test from FLVS. Just go back in the lessons man and re-read. Or go back to wikipedia and type in Jefferson. I am sure you can find most of the answers there.

5 Comments on “please help with my homework?”

  1. #1 tony de la hoya
    on Sep 16th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    I dont feel like reading all of that!
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  2. #2 Ivar V
    on Sep 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    me neither
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  3. #3 ihelpcook
    on Sep 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    why cant you do your own hw!!!!!!
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  4. #4 114th Wolf
    on Sep 16th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Dude this looks like an entire test from FLVS. Just go back in the lessons man and re-read. Or go back to wikipedia and type in Jefferson. I am sure you can find most of the answers there.
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  5. #5 Vikram P
    on Sep 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Is that anyway related to math?
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