US History - Chapter 6: A New Nation
Celebrating the spread of republican government
How did most Americans initially respond to the news of the French Revolution?
Kept it open for twenty years
How did the Constitutional Convention regulate the Atlantic slave trade?
They were counted as three-fifths of a person
How were slaves counted for purposes of proportional representation?
Ending governmental support of a particular religious denomination
What is disestablishment?
Scandal that occurred when French diplomats demanded bribes from American officials
What was the X.Y.Z. Affair?
Established judicial review
What was the most important consequence of Marbury v. Madison?
Farmers struggling because of debts
What was the primary cause of Shays' Rebellion?
Anti-Federalists
What was the term for Americans who opposed ratifying the Constitution?
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
What was the term for the documents arguing that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional?
Federal assumption of state debts, creating new bonds to allow investment in the United States, and establishing a Bank of the United States
Which of the following did Alexander Hamilton's financial plan include?
Required Britain to abandon military positions in the Northwest Territory, Britain to compensate American merchants for their losses, and the United States to treat Britain as its closest trade partner
Which of the following did John Jay's Treaty include?
Federal government could deport foreign nationals, or "aliens," who seemed to pose a national security threat and prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government
Which of the following did the Alien and Sedition Acts allow?
Proposed creating a strong federal government, three branches, and that the national legislature have veto power over state laws
Which of the following is true about the Virginia Plan?
Western farmers
Who suffered the most from the Whiskey tax?
Wealthy Americans
Alexander Hamilton's policies primarily targeted which group of people for greater involvement in the new nation?
