Deck 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
funding at par

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Jay

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
compact theory

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"elastic clause"

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edmond Genêt

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
loose construction

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
assumption

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Little Turtle

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Citizen Edmond Genêt

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
tariff

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Adams

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
strict construction

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
excise tax

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alexander Hamilton

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Matthew Lyon

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Mad Anthony" Wayne

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Washington

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
implied powers

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Convention of 1800

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis XVI

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
two-party system

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"permanent alliances"

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
French Revolution

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Declaration of the Rights of Man

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Miami Indians

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Neutrality Proclamation

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Supreme Court

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bank of the United States

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Marshall

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Franco-American alliance of 1778

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bill of Rights

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impressment

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
District of Columbia

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alien Laws

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nullification

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"High" Federalists

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jay's Treaty

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Reign of Terror

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Greenville

Question 42

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

A) the prerogatives of Congress, the president
B) the army and the navy, Congress
C) the South, the northern majority
D) individual liberties, a strong central government
E) civilian authorities, the military

Question 43

When the new government was launched in 1789,

A) the nation's population was doubling about every twenty-five years.
B) most people lived in the fast-growing cities.
C) most people lived west of the Allegheny Mountains.
D) New York was the largest city in the nation.
E) a majority of the population lived in New England.

Question 44

Who drafted the Bill of Rights?

A) George Washington
B) John Jay
C) John Adams
D) James Madison
E) Thomas Jefferson

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Whiskey Rebellion

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Washington´s Farewell Address

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tenth Amendment

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jeffersonian Republicans

Question 50

Match the individual with his office in the new government under President George Washington.

A) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
B) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
C) A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
D) A-4, B-2, C-l, D-3
E) A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Fallen Timbers

Question 52

What distinguished Washington´s election in 1789?

A) He was the only president to be elected to an eight-year term.
B) He was the only president not to be elected by the Electoral College.
C) He was the only president to be appointed by the military.
D) He was the only president to have been elected outside of Constitutional procedures.
E) He was the only president to be chosen unanimously.

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
XYZ affair

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pinckney´s Treaty

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federalists

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Judiciary Act of 1789

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ninth Amendment

Question 58

Which statement about the young American nation is FALSE?

A) Its population was still about 90 percent rural.
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) A majority of the population was branching out west of the Appalachian Mountains.
E) Foreign visitors looked down at the roughness and crudity of the pioneering life.

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sedition Act

Question 60

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

A) was too long and detailed.
B) did not provide for an adequate separation of powers.
C) failed to guarantee property rights.
D) gave too much power to the Supreme Court and federal judges.
E) did not provide a bill of rights.

Question 61

The Pennsylvanians who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 thought that the new federal excise tax on whiskey was

A) a burden on an economic necessity and a medium of exchange.
B) an important source of revenue for the new government.
C) a conspiracy of the Jeffersonians.
D) an oppressive blow at Americans´ cultural inheritance from Britain.
E) an unjust intrusion into the triangle trade.

Question 62

Why did the new government formed under the Constitution move quickly to pass the Bill of Rights?

A) The newly elected President Washington began to show dictatorial tendencies.
B) Congress was worried that a French-style reign of terror might occur in America.
C) Many states had ratified the Constitution with the understanding that it would soon be amended to include guarantees of individual rights.
D) Western expansion required a firmer statement of individual rights in federal territories.
E) Congress wanted to amend the Constitution quickly to show that it was not meant to be unchangeable.

Question 63

Match each political leader with his positions on public policy in the 1790s.

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

Question 64

Alexander Hamilton believed that a large national debt would

A) do great harm to the nation's economy.
B) cause inflation in the long run.
C) persuade individuals and nations not to lend money to the United States.
D) be beneficial because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success.
E) be justified only for national defense purposes.

Question 65

The federal government´s suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion

A) generated new respect for federal power, but struck many as disproportionate.
B) destroyed Washington´s reputation for a time, but eventually earned him admiration.
C) emboldened the rebels in Pennsylvania to spread their movement to other states, but they found little success.
D) helped destroy the struggling federalist party, but created a new farmers´ party.
E) was so badly handled that the new government lost most of the respect it had.

Question 66

The Bill of Rights guarantees individual rights and freedoms in several areas EXCEPT

A) the right to vote.
B) the right to petition the government.
C) freedom of religion.
D) freedom of the press.
E) right to a trial by a jury.

Question 67

Which statement about Hamilton´s plan for a Bank of the United States is FALSE?

A) It would be a private institution with the government as its major stockholder.
B) It would print an urgently needed and sound paper currency.
C) It would facilitate the federal government´s assumption of state debts.
D) It would serve as a depository for federal funds.
E) It would stimulate business by keeping currency in circulation.

Question 68

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

A) First
B) Sixth
C) Eighth
D) Ninth
E) Tenth

Question 69

The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the federal court system and also the

A) office of the judge advocate general.
B) justice department.
C) state supreme courts.
D) state circuit courts.
E) office of the attorney general.

Question 70

Which program was the most essential to Hamilton´s goal of bolstering the nation´s credit?

A) Assumption
B) Currency devaluation
C) Funding at par
D) Excise taxes
E) Taxing the slave trade

Question 71

What does the Ninth Amendment say?

A) It prohibits Congress from making laws that restrict freedoms of religion, speech, and peaceful assembly, freedom of the press, and petitioning the government.
B) "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
C) The protection of specific rights in the other amendments "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
D) The people have the right not to be subject to "unreasonable searches and seizures."
E) Powers not assigned to the federal government or prohibited to the states by the Constitution "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Question 72

The opposition of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in

A) the formation of permanent political parties.
B) Hamilton's dismissal from the cabinet by George Washington.
C) Jefferson's decision to run against George Washington.
D) a sharp conflict between the president and Congress.
E) the revival of antifederalist sentiment.

Question 73

Alexander Hamilton's proposed Bank of the United States was

A) rejected by the House of Representatives.
B) supported by Thomas Jefferson.
C) enthusiastically supported by George Washington.
D) based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution.
E) to be owned and operated by the Treasury Department.

Question 74

As a two-party political system took shape in the 1790s,newspapers

A) stayed clear of political conflict.
B) were increasingly ignored as irrelevant.
C) were outlawed by the Sedition Act.
D) helped to solidify and spread the new parties´ messages.
E) became the voice of the Jeffersonian Republican party.

Question 75

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

A) the Articles of Confederation.
B) the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution.
C) the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
D) the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
E) the restrictions on Congress's powers in Article II, Section 9 of the Constitution.

Question 76

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

A) sales taxes and licensing fees.
B) customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes.
C) income and property taxes.
D) western land sales and foreign loans.
E) capital gains taxes on corporations.

Question 77

Which of these measures was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program?

A) A national bank
B) Funding the entire national debt at "par"
C) Assumption of state debts by the federal government
D) Tariffs
E) A monetary system based on silver

Question 78

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

A) agricultural interests.
B) New England.
C) the wealthy.
D) the poor.
E) the middle class.

Question 79

Which economic sector did Hamilton think would be increasingly important to the future of the American economy?

A) Commerce
B) Plantation agriculture
C) Small-scale farming
D) Industrial manufacturing
E) The slave trade

Question 80

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

A) reduce the federal debt.
B) bring more industry to the United States.
C) see that more agricultural products were exported.
D) bolster the national credit.
E) put the country on the gold standard.