US History Chapter 10 - Version 2

B. Recent immigrants, newspapers.

The Federalist-dominated Congress's Alien Act was aimed at ____, whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at ____. a. Rebellious slaves, newspapers b. Recent immigrants, newspapers c. Recent immigrants, merchants d. Merchant smuggling, rebellious slaves e. Indians, farmers

Saw them as a sign of disloyalty and lack of national unity.

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

The Alien and Sedition Acts.

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to:

C. Artist.

All of the following careers were tried by John Adams EXCEPT: a. Scientist. b. Doctor. c. Artist. d. Orator. e. Lawyer.

A strong central government.

Hamiltonian Federalists advocated:

The Supreme Court.

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

The national government was the creation of the thirteen sovereign states.

According to the compact theory advocated by Jefferson and Madison:

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

Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt:

Bank of England.

Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States was modeled on the:

The wealthier class.

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

Based on the "necessary and proper" or "elastic" clause in the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton's proposed bank of the United States was:

Most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard.

All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation EXCEPT: a. Its population was still about 90 percent rural, despite the flourishing cities. b. The first official census of 1790 recorded almost 4 million people. c. All but 5 percent of the people lived east of the Appalachian Mountains. d. Most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities. e. Foreign visitors looked down at the roughness and crudity of the pioneering life.

A. The right to vote for all citizens.

All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights EXCEPT: a. The right to vote for all citizens. b. Freedom of speech. c. Freedom of religion. d. Freedom of the press. e. Right to a trial by a jury.

C. Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating with the protestors.

All of the following are true statements about the Whiskey Rebellion EXCEPT: a. Backcountry pioneer folk saw whiskey not as a luxury but as an economic necessity and medium of exchange. b. Protesters felt burdened by Hamilton's economic programs. c. Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating with the protestors. d. Protesters erected whiskey poles similar to liberty poles used against the Stamp Act in 1765. e. Whiskey rebels tarred and feathered revenue officers.

E. Paying only domestic debts but not foreign debts.

All of the following were part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program EXCEPT: a. The creation of a national bank. b. Funding the entire national debt at par. c. Vigorous foreign trade. d. Protective tariffs. e. Paying only domestic debts but not foreign debts.

B. His intelligence was constantly under question, but his loyalty to the republican experiment never waivered.

All of the following were true of Alexander Hamilton EXCEPT: a. He served as the first Secretary of the Treasury. b. His intelligence was constantly under question, but his loyalty to the republican experiment never wavered. c. He would have been president if it were not for his ultraconservatism, a scandalous adultery, and a duelist's bullet. d. His chief rival was Thomas Jefferson. e. He claimed that the "British Government was the best in the world."

C. His wishy-washy positions on the issues of the day.

Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following EXCEPT: a. Trying to fill the popular George Washington's shoes. b. Hamilton's hatred of him and efforts to undermine him. c. His wishy-washy positions on the issues of the day. d. His demeanor as an intellectual and elite, which made him unappealing to the masses. e. His narrow victory in his bid for office.

Jay's Treaty, Neutrality Proclamation, XYZ Affair, Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

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

Newspaper editors critical of the Adams Administration were indicted, tried and sent to jail.

As a result of the Sedition Acts

Bolster the national credit.

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

Seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies.

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

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

The rivalry and warfare between France and Britain.

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

The best people.

Federalists advocated rule by:

Law and order.

Federalists strongly supported:

Trade with Britain.

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

French seizure of American merchant ships.

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

Gain the monetary and political support of the rich for the federal government.

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

Customs duties and excise tax.

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

States' rights.

Hamilton's major programs seriously infringed on:

The national government's dependence on customs collections for revenue.

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

Promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest.

In Jay's Treaty, the British:

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

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

E. A promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians.

Jay's Treaty contained all of the following provisions EXCEPT: a. ABritish promise to evacuate its chain of forts on U.S. soil. b. British consent to pay damages for the recent seizure of American ships. c. That Americans were bound to pay debts still owed to British merchants on pre-Revolutionary accounts. d. No promise by the British to pay for future seizure of American ships. e. A promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians.

He feared an uprising of the landless, leading to mobocracy.

Jefferson said landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because:

Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

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

C. Every adult white male's right to vote.

Jeffersonians believed in all of the following EXCEPT: a. Opposition to a national debt. b. Agriculture as the ideal occupation. c. Every adult white male's right to vote. d. Freedom of speech. e. Central authority should be kept to a minimum.

Created deeper splits between Federalists and Democractic-Republicans.

John Jay's 1794 treaty with Britain:

A. A-1, 2, 4, 6 B-3, 5, 7, 8

Match each political leader with his positions on public policy in the 1790s.: A. Hamilton B. Jefferson 1. Privileges for the upper classes 2. Pro-British 3. Sympathy for the common people 4. Potent central government 5. Pay off the national debt 6. Government support for business 7. Pro-French 8. Universal education a. A-1, 2, 4, 6 B-3, 5, 7, 8 b. A-1, 5, 6, 7 B-2, 3, 4, 8 c. A-2, 3, 5, 8 B-1, 4, 6, 7 d. A-3, 6, 7, 8 B-1, 2, 4, 5 e. A-5, 2, 6, 3 B-1, 4, 7, 8

C. Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury Henry Knox - Secretary of War John Jay - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Match the individual with his office in the new government. A. Thomas Jefferson B. Alexander Hamilton C. Henry Knox D. John Jay 1. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2. Secretary of state 3. Secretary of war 4. Secretary of treasury D-2

Keeping the nation out of foreign wars.

One of George Washington's major contributions as president was:

Draw up and pass a bill of rights.

One of the first jobs facing the new government, formed under the Constitution, was to:

Did not provide guarantees for individual rights.

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

The formation of permanent political parties.

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

Prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war.

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

E. A necessary evil

Regarding central authority, early Americans saw it as all of the following EXCEPT: a. Something to be ultimately eliminated. b. Something to be distrusted. c. Something to be watched. d. Something to be curbed. e. A necessary evil.

The candidates' personalities.

The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on:

Individual liberties, a strong central government.

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

Bound the United States to help the French defend their possessions in the West Indies.

The Franco-American alliance of 1778:

Of Jay's Treaty.

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

Supporters of the war faction of the Federalist party.

The High Federalists were:

Officially proclaimed America's neutrality in Old World quarrels.

The Neutrality Proclamation in 1793:

Threatened First Amendment freedoms.

The Sedition Act:

E. The establishment of an equal relationship with the Indians.

The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation resulted in all of the following EXCEPT: a. Giving to the United States vast tracts of land in the Old Northwest. b. The Indians receiving a $20,000 lump sum payment. c. An annual annuity of $9,000 to the Indians. d. The right of the Indians to hunt the land they had ceded. e. The establishment of an equal relationship with the Indians.

The Pinckney Treaty.

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:

Wanted to concentrate on gaining more power in Europe.

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

Levied an excise tax on whiskey.

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

Tenth

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

D. Twelfth.

The ____ amendment dealt with the problem of having a president and vice-president from two different political parties:

A protective tariff.

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

The French Revolution.

The event of the 1790s that has left the deepest scar on American political and social life is:

The XYZ affair.

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

Silence and punish critics of the Federalists.

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

Cabinet

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

Democratic-Republicans

The political party of the outs that provided the loyal opposition to the party in power in the 1790s was the:

D. The upper class.

Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups EXCEPT: a. Small shopkeepers. b. The underprivileged. c. The middle class. d. The upper class. e. Artisans.

Continuing slavery.

Thomas Jefferson argued that a landless class of voters could be avoided in part by:

The states retained the majority of political power.

Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which:

Independent farmer.

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

Warned against the dangers of permanent foreign alliances.

Washington's Farewell Address in 1796:

Self-interest is the basic cement of alliances.

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation clearly illustrated the truism that:

Was based on calculations of American self-interest.

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793:

Established a two-term tradition for American presidents.

Washington's decision to retire from the presidency in 1797:

Remained neutral.

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

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

When the new government was launched in 1789:

Ninth

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