Exam 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

According to the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Supreme Court was to be

Opponents of Alexander Hamilton's proposed national bank argued

At the Philadelphia convention the small state plan was called the ______________.

The Judiciary Act of 1801

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton served as secretaries of state and the treasury, respectively, under President George Washington.

James Madison decided that sovereignty ultimately resided with _______________.

Alexander Hamilton recommended that the federal government raise revenue through

In the Constitution, political parties were

Pinckney's Treaty (1795) was negotiated between the United States and

Jefferson favored an agrarian America, but he did not oppose industrial activity.

Hamilton's economic program had the general support of both manufacturing interests and small farmers.

The first secretary of the treasury under the new government of 1789 was

In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a major concession to the pro-slavery delegates was the

The election of 1796 saw

The delegates who drafted the new Constitution were products of the American Revolution but had lost their fears of concentrated power.

The new Constitution banned the slave trade, but it did not ban slavery.

During the 1790s, regional support in the United States for Federalists was greatest in the

The Judiciary Act of 1801 was passed by a lame duck Federalist Congress.

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 greatly exceeded their instructions from Congress and the states.

Alexander Hamilton wanted the state debts to be assumed by the federal government so that the entire debt could be paid off at once.