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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jefferson say to Elizabeth Walker's husband?

2. Who is Madison Hemings?

3. What is miscegenation?

4. What does Jefferson announce, almost immediately, after the Embargo Act is passed?

5. What is remarkable about the transfer of power from one president to the next?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Jefferson believes that slavery should be abolished, what does he feel about the issue of equality?

2. How does Jefferson's arrival in Washington, D.C., differ from his arrivals in Philadelphia and Paris?

3. What happens between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

4. How does Jefferson spend his retirement?

5. Why will scholars still be arguing about Jefferson's legacies well into the 22nd century?

6. What do historians verify in the 1950s?

7. What role does James Callender play in this scandal?

8. What is remarkable about the deaths of Jefferson and Adams?

9. Why might it be possible that this affair took place?

10. What does Jefferson want to eliminate as president?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of Jefferson's primary goals is the elimination of the national debt.

Part 1) Of what does he see this as the cause?

Part 2) He is determined to eliminate the national debt and one of his cost-saving measures is dismantling the U.S. Navy. Why does he believe this is a good cost-saving measure?

Part 3) How does this course of action prove to be almost disastrous?

Essay Topic 2

Jefferson hates to have his work edited.

Part 1) What works of Jefferson's mentioned in the text are edited?

Part 2) Why are they edited?

Part 3) How does he handle having his works edited?

Essay Topic 3

Jefferson writes revisionist history.

Part 1) What is revisionist history?

Part 2) What revisionist history does he write?

Part 3) Why might he do this?

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