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

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nullification

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

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

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
agrarian

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Knox

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Talleyrand

Question 11

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

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Madison

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
amendment

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
assumption

Question 15

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

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
protective tariff

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Democratic-Republicans

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federalists

Question 30

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

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Farewell Address

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impressment

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 41

Match the individual with his office in the new government.

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 42

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Ohio

Question 43

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.

Question 44

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

Question 45

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Baltimore

Question 46

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Vermont

Question 47

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, the national government
C) the South, the northern majority
D) individual liberties, a strong central government
E) civilian authorities, the military

Question 48

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

A) First
B) Second
C) Fifth
D) Ninth
E) Tenth

Question 49

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Potomac River

Question 50

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) Great Britain refused to establish diplomatic relations with the United States.

Question 51

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

A) was too long and detailed.
B) was far too short and required more detail.
C) failed to guarantee property rights.
D) failed to provide a mechanism for amendment.
E) did not provide guarantees for individual rights.

Question 52

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

A) Electoral College.
B) vice president.
C) Supreme Court.
D) cabinet.
E) federal court system.

Question 53

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Kentucky

Question 54

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Tennessee

Question 55

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.

Question 56

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.

Question 57

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ District of Columbia

Question 58

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

A) 20
B) 40
C) 55
D) 70
E) 90

Question 59

COMPLETION
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:

____ Old Northwest

Question 60

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

A) establish a powerful army.
B) reestablish diplomatic ties with Britain.
C) draw up and pass a bill of rights.
D) establish economic ties with France.
E) All of these

Question 61

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

A) Bank of England.
B) Swiss National Bank.
C) Bank of France.
D) national bank that existed in the United States prior to the Constitution.
E) National Bank of the Netherlands.

Question 62

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

A) opposed anyone who disagreed with them.
B) were not part of the early colonial governments.
C) had existed in Britain.
D) saw them as a sign of disloyalty and lack of national unity.
E) had caused the fall of republican Rome.

Question 63

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.

Question 64

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

A) Antifederalists.
B) Federalists.
C) Democratic-Republicans.
D) Whigs.
E) Tories.

Question 65

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

A) Articles of Confederation.
B) "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution.
C) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
D) Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
E) restrictions on Congress's power in Article I, section 10 of the Constitution.

Question 66

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

A) agricultural interests.
B) trade with France.
C) the wealthier class.
D) the poor.
E) the middle class.

Question 67

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 68

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

A) gain the monetary and political support of the rich for the federal government.
B) restore the principles of state sovereignty.
C) be the quickest way to pay off the national debt.
D) guarantee the fairest treatment of the original holders of government bonds.
E) keep taxes low and therefore create a feeling of loyalty to the new federal government.

Question 69

Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt

A) would do great harm to the nation's economy.
B) might lead to military weakness.
C) could persuade individuals and nations not to lend money to the United States.
D) was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success.
E) could help his economic plans but not his political plans.

Question 70

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

A) funding at par.
B) assumption.
C) the National Bank.
D) a protective tariff.
E) excise taxes.

Question 71

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

A) levied an excise tax on whiskey.
B) tried to prohibit the sale of whiskey.
C) allowed the import of foreign whiskey.
D) halted the export of American whiskey.
E) tried to prohibit the manufacturing of whiskey.

Question 72

Hamilton's major programs seriously infringed on

A) checks and balances.
B) national security.
C) states' rights.
D) free enterprise.
E) federal authority.

Question 73

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

A) the Whiskey Rebellion.
B) the French Revolution.
C) Hamilton's economic plan for the country.
D) the trouble with Native Americans.
E) the development of the political party system.

Question 74

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

A) help the wealthy.
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.

Question 75

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 and excise tax.
C) income and property taxes.
D) western land sales and foreign loans.
E) foreign aid.

Question 76

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."

Question 77

Opposition by 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) politics drifting too far out of kilter with the wishes of the people.
D) the rejection of Hamilton's plan by Washington.
E) their dismissal from the cabinet of George Washington.

Question 78

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) never fully enacted.

Question 79

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

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

Question 80

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.