APUSH Ch. 7-1

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which were set forth in 1798, supported which of the following positions?

States' right to judge the legitimacy of national laws.

The critical disagreement that led to the emergence of political parties in the mid-1790s was based on which of the following issues?

Hamilton's financial plan.

Why was Toussaint L'Ouverture a significant figure in the 1790s?

He led black Haitians in their fight to seize control of Saint-Domingue.

Thomas Jefferson's vision for the future of the United States included which of the following ideas?

Western territories populated by independent yeomen farm families.

Why was Hamilton's financial plan so controversial?

It lined the pockets of wealthy investors and speculators.

Approval by Congress and ratification by the states of the Bill of Rights had which of the following outcomes?

An easing of Americans' fears of an oppressive national government.

Which of the following served as a catalyst for the 1794 domestic insurgency known as the Whiskey Rebellion?

An excise tax.

Who led the conservative Senecas, who condemned assimilation and demanded a return to ancestral customs?

Chief Red Jacket.

Which statement was true of George Washington's 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality?

Earnings from shipping rose spectacularly as a result of it.

Which of the following statements describes actions the first congressional government undertook in 1789?

George Washington established a cabinet--or body of advisors--and an administrative bureaucracy under the president's control.

The Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts had which of the following outcomes in the United States in the 1790s?

It became illegal to publish insults or malicious attacks against Congress or the president.

Which of the following describes Jay's Treaty of 1795?

It required the British to withdraw their troops from forts in the Northwest Territory. It was a return of property confiscated from Loyalists during the Revolution. (It included acknowledgement of the British right to remove French property from American ships, repayment of prewar debts to British merchants, and removal of British forts in the West.)

What was the 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality?

It was a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war.

Which of the following is true of the U.S. election of 1796?

John Adams won the vote and continued a pro-British foreign policy.

Which of the following statements characterizes the American reaction to the French Revolution?

Many Americans praised the egalitarianism of the French republicans and began to address one another as "citizen."

Which of the following best characterizes the Native American response to whites' assimilation efforts in the Midwest in the late eighteenth century?

Many Native Americans repudiated white missionaries and forced Christian converts to participate in native rituals.

The southern migrants who moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico between 1790 and 1820 originated in which of the following areas?

North and South Carolina.

To win votes for his financial plan, Hamilton made which of the following concessions?

Proposing that the nation's new capitol be built in the Upper South.

Washington's Secretary of War, Henry Knox, favored which of the following approaches to Native Americans?

Relocation

Which of the following events was the Federalists' response to the Republicans' criticism of their policies in the 1790s?

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes U.S. relations with France during the late 1790s?

The United States cut off trade with France and authorized Americans to seize French ships.

Alexander Hamilton's 1789 financial plan for the United States included which of the following items?

The federal government's assumption of state war debts

Why did Thomas Jefferson call his election to the presidency the "Revolution of 1800"?

The government changed peacefully despite bitter partisan conflict and foreign crisis.

What was the Naturalization Act?

The residency requirement for American citizenship was shortened from fourteen years to five years.

Indians ceded much of Ohio and acknowledged American political sovereignty in which of the following treaties?

Treaty of Greenville.

Which of the following individuals would have been unlikely to gravitate toward the Republicans in the late 1790s?

Wealthy New York banker