Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson viewed the westward migration of Americans with...

    

• apprehension because he believed the country was growing too large to be governed as a single republic.


• disapproval because he sympathized with the plight of the Indians who would be displaced by white settlement of the West.


• disdain because, as a cultured aristocrat, he considered the settlers to be uncouth rabble who would only cause trouble with the Indians and destroy the West's natural environment.


• unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen. 

ANSWER: Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson viewed the westward migration of Americans with unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen. 

Thomas Jefferson attempted to purchase New Orleans in 1802 and 1803 because...

  

• Spain refused American farmer's access to ship their products through the port, in violation of the Pinckney Treaty.
• he feared that racial violence in Haiti would spread to America via New Orleans.
• he had arranged a secret deal with Great Britain to use the port as a military staging point for the conquest of French and Spanish islands in the Caribbean.
• he feared Napoleon Bonaparte's plan to establish a French empire in North America. 

ANSWER: Thomas Jefferson attempted to purchase New Orleans in 1802 and 1803 because he feared Napoleon Bonaparte's plan to establish a French empire in North America. 

Thomas Jefferson's main purpose in composing the Declaration of Independence was to...

  

• raise funds from colonial legislatures to carry on the war.
• explain to the British public why Americans were repudiating George III, in the hopes that Britons would stop Parliament and the king from waging a bloody war.
• justify the action of Congress by blaming the rupture on George III.
• persuade pro-Loyalist New York and Georgia to join the Patriot cause.

ANSWER: Thomas Jefferson's main purpose in composing the Declaration of Independence was to justify the action of Congress by blaming the rupture on George III.