Deck 8: Federalists and Republicans

Question 1

According to the introductory video in section 8.1,George Washington was the first president to be inaugurated under the __________.

A) Articles of Confederation
B) U.S. Constitution
C) Virginia Resolution
D) Coinage Act

Answer 1

U.S. Constitution

Question 2

According to the introductory video in section 8.2,which country was trying to forge an alliance with the United States?

A) Spain
B) Prussia
C) France
D) Britain

Answer 2

France

Question 3

Which of the following was a victory for the Federalists?

A) government subsidies for farmers
B) government subsidies for manufacturers
C) creation of the Bank of the United States
D) passage of the Virginia Resolution

Answer 3

creation of the Bank of the United States

Question 4

Why were farmers negatively affected by the federal tax on whiskey?

A) They consumed the most whiskey.
B) They distilled corn into whiskey.
C) They could not buy any other alcohol.
D) They controlled the black market.

Question 5

According to the introductory video in section 8.3,the Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson's time is the __________ Party of today.

A) Republican
B) Democratic
C) Federalist
D) Tea

Question 6

Who would most likely have agreed to Edmond Genet's requests?

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 7

What sector of the economy did Republicans consider the most important?

A) agriculture
B) manufacturing
C) banking
D) industry

Question 8

What advice did George Washington share in his Farewell Address?

A) honor the country's alliances
B) establish a two-party system
C) never use military force against civilians
D) avoid foreign entanglements

Question 9

Which of the following was responsible for interpreting and applying the principles of the Constitution?

A) state legislatures
B) Department of State
C) Congress
D) Supreme Court

Question 10

What did Americans hope would be the driving force of politics?

A) self-interest
B) political parties
C) factionalism
D) civic virtue

Question 11

Who supported George Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) James Madison
D) Edmond Genet

Question 12

According to the introductory video in section 8.4,the origins of NASCAR can be traced to the __________.

A) Sugar Act
B) Coinage Act
C) era of Prohibition
D) Whiskey Rebellion

Question 13

The French Revolution's ideals of liberty,equality,and fraternity resonated with __________.

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 14

In the first presidential election,how was the vice president chosen?

A) The person who received the second highest number of votes became the vice president.
B) The person elected as president chose the vice president after the election.
C) The person running for president chose the vice president before the election.
D) There was a separate election for the vice president after the president was elected.

Question 15

Who supported the policy of neutrality in the war in Europe?

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) Edmond Genet
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 16

How many amendments were ratified by the states for inclusion in the Bill of Rights?

A) five
B) ten
C) twelve
D) twenty-six

Question 17

Many members of the Republican Party of Jefferson had been former __________.

A) Antifederalists
B) Federalists
C) Democrats
D) Bankers

Question 18

Who proposed that Britain would make the better ally in the war in Europe?

A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) Edmond Genet
D) Thomas Jefferson

Question 19

How does the video in the introduction characterize the decade from 1789 to 1800?

A) a period free of foreign entanglements
B) an era of political cooperation
C) the height of freedom of speech
D) a test for the Constitution

Question 20

The Whiskey Rebellion strengthened the Federalists' view of the Republicans and their supporters as __________.

A) elitist
B) alcoholics
C) conservatives
D) radicals

Question 21

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions asserted the authority of __________ to declare federal laws unconstitutional.

A) Congress
B) the Supreme Court
C) citizens
D) states

Question 22

Which of the following would have most likely supported the Alien and Sedition Acts?

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

Question 23

Compare and contrast the goals and priorities of the Federalists and the Republicans.

Question 24

According to the introductory video in section 8.5,what have historians used to understand women's lives in early America?

A) private conversations between Abigail Adams and her servants
B) notes Abigail Adams took during the Constitutional Convention
C) letters Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams
D) speeches Abigail Adams delivered before her marriage

Question 25

Which country shown on the map established a naval blockade that interfered with American trade in Europe?

A) Russia
B) Hungary
C) French Republic
D) Ottoman Empire

Question 26

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions reflected the perspective of which group?

A) Republicans
B) Federalists
C) the majority party in Congress
D) the advisers to the president

Question 27

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 8.6,what was a penalty for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts?

A) community service
B) labor camp
C) imprisonment
D) death

Question 28

The idea of nullification was proposed in the __________.

A) Whiskey Rebellion
B) Alien Enemies Act
C) Sedition Act
D) Kentucky Resolution

Question 29

Which amendment states the following?: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth

Question 30

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions contributed to the __________.

A) Whiskey Rebellion
B) Alien Enemies Act
C) war in Europe
D) doctrine of states' rights

Question 31

Compare and contrast Federalist and Republican views on the French Revolution.

Question 32

The Constitution gave which of the following the authority to declare war?

A) Supreme Court
B) Congress
C) the president
D) the states

Question 33

Which of the following described the Alien and Sedition Acts as "the most palpable violation of one of the Rights,thus declared and secured"?

A) Declaration of Independence
B) Virginia Resolution
C) Report on Manufactures
D) Jay Treaty

Question 34

John Adams started an undeclared naval war against which country shown on the map?

A) Batavian Republic
B) Ottoman Empire
C) French Republic
D) Great Britain

Question 35

How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?

Question 36

Which of the following would the Federalists have most likely supported?

A) Alien and Sedition Acts
B) Virginia Resolution
C) Kentucky Resolution
D) Whiskey Rebellion

Question 37

In the Arguing History video in section 8.6,the speaker compares political parties to a __________.

A) secret weapon of the president
B) de facto Supreme Court
C) monarchy in disguise
D) fourth branch of government

Question 38

Who started out as a Federalist and later switched to the Republican Party?

A) George Washington
B) James Madison
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Alexander Hamilton

Question 39

In the Past and Present video in section 8.6,freedom of speech becomes more restricted during periods of __________.

A) war
B) peace
C) prosperity
D) mourning

Question 40

Which of the following would have been punished under the Sedition Act of 1898?

A) yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater
B) publishing an antiwar editorial
C) petitioning for women's suffrage
D) defending the practice of slavery