APUSH Chapter 10
As a result of the Sedition Acts,
newspaper editors critical of the Adams administration were indicted, tried, convicted, and sent to jail.
Jay's Treaty contained all of the following provisions except
a promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians.
According many Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with
the Supreme Court.
Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except
manufacturers.
The French grew angry with the United States shortly after 1794 because
of Jay's Treaty.
All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except
the right to vote for all citizens.
Jeffersonian Republicans favored a political system in which
the states retained the majority of political power.
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 rich for the federal government.
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.
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 Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government
levied an excise tax on whiskey.
Hamiltonian Federalists advocated
a strong central government.
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.
Match each political leader with his positions on public policy in the 1790s.
Hamilton - rule by the "best people" or the elites, pro-British, potent central government, government support and financial incentives for business development Jefferson - sympathy for agrarian interests, reduce the national debt as quickly and as much as possible, pro-French, universal education of the white masses (A-1, 2, 4, 6 - B-3, 5, 7, 8)
Which American political group was most alarmed by the Reign of Terror that occurred in France shortly after the French Revolution of 1789?
Hamiltonian Federalists
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 a Bank of the United States were based on the strict construction principles, especially embodied in the
Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Match the individual with his office in the new government.
Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury Henry Knox - Secretary of War John Jay - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1)
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," clause in the Constitution.
As secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton's first objective was to
bolster the national credit.
Thomas Jefferson argued that the emergence of a 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.
Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from
customs duties and excise tax.
During its first quarter- century as a nation, one of the most vexing problems facing America was
developing and implementing a foreing 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.
Federalists advocated rule by
elites uninfluenced by the informed masses or "the best people."
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.
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.
To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was a(n)
independent farmer.
The Bill of Rights was intended to protect ____ against the potential tyranny of ____.
individual liberties, a strong central government
One of George Washington's most significant contributions as president was
keeping the nation out of foreign wars.
Federalists strongly supported
law and order.
All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except
most of the population lived in the eastern seaboard cities.
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 to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest.
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 Federalist-dominated Congress enacted the Alien Laws, which were aimed at ____; whereas, the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at ____.
recent immigrants; Jeffersonian newspapers 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.
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 immediate cause of the undeclared war between the United States and France was
the XYZ affair.
The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on
the candidates' personalities.
Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in
the formation of permanent political parties.
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 the creation of the thirteen sovereign states.
Hamilton's 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.
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.
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.
The United States finally negotiated a peace settlement with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon
wanted to concentrate on gaining more power and territory in Europe.
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.