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