AP U.S. History: Chapter 10

The French grew angry with the United States shortly after 1794 because

of Jay's Treaty

According many Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with

the Supreme Court

Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in

the formation of permanent political parties

To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizens of a republic was a(n)

independent farmer

Jefferson Republicans favored a political system in which

the states retained the majority of political power

In the election campaign of 1796, the Democratic-Republicans made their primary issue

the terms of Jay's Treaty and the crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion

The United States finally negotiated a peace agreements with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon

wanted to concentrate on gaining more power and territory in Europe

The immediate cause of the undeclared war between the United States and France was

the XYZ affair

Despite the flourishing cities, America's population was still about ________ percent rural.

90

A. Thomas Jefferson 1. Chief Justice B. Alexander Hamilton 2. Secretary of State C. Henry Knox 3. Secretary of War D. John Jay 4. Secretary of Treasury

A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1

Hamilton Federalists advocated

a strong central government

One of George Washington's most significant contributions as president was

keeping the nation out of foreign wars

Arrange the following events in chronological order (A) XYZ affair, (B) Neutrality Proclamation, (C) Jay's Treaty, and (D) Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

B, C, A, D

The political party out of power in Congress and the executive branch of government that provided the loyal opposition to the party in power in the 1790s was the

Democratic-Republicans

Foreign relations between the United States and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over

French seizure of American merchant ships

Rule by the "best people" or the elites pro-British potent central government government support and financial incentives for business development

Hamilton

Which American political group was most alarmed by the Reign of Terror that occurred in France shortly after the French Revolution of 1789?

Hamilton Federalists

sympathy for agrarians interests reduce the national debt as quickly and as much as possible pro-French universal education of the white masses

Jefferson

Which amendment guards against the danger that enumerating rights might lead to the conclusion that they were the only ones protected?

Ninth

All of the following are true statements about the Whiskey Rebellion except

President Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating a peaceful resolution of the conflict with the protestors

The _________ Amendment might rightly be called the states' rights amendment.

Tenth

Jefferson's argument against the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States was based on the strict construction principles, especially embodied in the

Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights

Jay's Treaty contained all of the following provisions except

a promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians

The aspect of Hamilton's financial program that received the least support in Congress, because of its heavy agricultural and commercial interests, was

a protective tariff

The legal basis for Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States was

based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," cause in the Constitution

As secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton's first objective was to

bolster the national credit

The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a(n)

cabinet

Thomas Jefferson argued that the emergence of large landless class of white citizens could be avoided in part by

continuing slavery

John Jay's 1794 treaty with Britain

created deeper splits between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

Federalists advocated rule by

elites uninfluenced by the informed masses or "the best people."

Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from

customs duties and excise taxes

During its first quarter-century as a nation, one of the major problems facing America was

developing and implementing a foreign policy strategy that would prevent the United States from entangling itself in the rivalry and warfare between France and Britain

One of the major criticisms of the Constitution, as drafted in Philadelphia, was that it

did not provide guarantees for individual rights

Washington's decision to retire from the presidency in 1797

established a two-term tradition for American presidents

Jeffersonian Republicans believed in all of the following except

every adult white male's right to vote

The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation of Indian nations resulted in all of the following except

fair and reasonable financial compensation to the Miamis' in exchange for an iron-clad promise from the U.S. government to restrict further westward expansion along the Old Northwest frontier

For its continued success, Hamilton's financial program relied heavily on

foreign trade with Britain and Europe

Hamilton believed that, together, his funding and assumption programs would

gain the monetary and political support of the upper class for the federal government

Jefferson asserted landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because

he feared that those without property could become political pawns of those who owned land

Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following except

his ambivalent positions on the critical political, economic, and foreign policy issues of the day

All of the following were true of Alexander Hamilton except

his intelligence was constantly under question, but his loyalty to the republican experiment never wavered

The Bill of Rights was intended to protect __________ against the potential tyranny of ________.

individual liberties, a strong central government

Federalists strongly supported

law and order

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government

levied an excise tax on whiskey

Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except

manufacturers

All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except

most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities

As a result of the Sedition Acts,

newspaper editors critical of the Adams administration were indicted, tried, convinced, and sent to jail

All of the following were part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program except

paying only domestic debts but not foreign debts

President Adams sought a peaceful solution to the undeclared war with France in order to

prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war

In Jay's Treaty, the British

promised the evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest

The Federalist-dominated Congress enacted the Alien Laws which were aimed at __________; whereas, the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at _____________.

recent immigrants; Jeffersonian newspaper and other outspoken political opponents of the Federalists

When the French Revolution developed into a war with Britain, George Washington and the American government

remained neutral

The Founders had not envisioned the existence of permanent political parties because they

saw them as a sign of disloyalty and lack of national unity

Britain made neutrality very difficult for the United States during the French and British conflicts of the 1790s by

seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies

The main purpose of the Alien Laws and Sedition Acts was to

silence and punish critics of the Federalists

Political opponents of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton asserted that his major economic programs infringed on

states' rights, explicitly reserved to them by pending ratification of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution

The High Federalists were

supporters of the war faction of the Federalist party

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to

the Alien and Sedition Acts

The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of deposit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in

the Pinckney Treaty

The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily

the candidates' personalities

All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except

the right to vote for all citizens

When the new government was launched in 1789

the nation's population was doubling about every twenty-five years

According to the compact theory advocated by Jefferson and Madison

the national government was a creation of the thirteen sovereign states

Hamilton position on the war between Britain and France in 1793 was primarily influenced by

the national government's dependence on customs collections for revenue and the promotion of international trade with favored partners

Alexander Hamilton's financial program for the economic development of the United States favored

the wealthier class

The Sedition Act

threatened First Amendment freedoms of speech and press

Washington's Farewell Address in 1796

warned against the dangers of permanent foreign alliances

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

was based on calculations of American self-interest

Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt

was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success

The formal Franco-American political and military defense alliance of 1778

was weakened significantly by the issuance of President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793