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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nullification

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

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

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
amending the U.S. Constitution

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
assumption

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Talleyrand

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
impressment

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:
agrarians

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federalists

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
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​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
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____ Old Northwest

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

Question 43

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 44

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
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____ Potomac River

Question 45

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 46

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

Question 47

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
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____ Kentucky

Question 48

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
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____ District of Columbia

Question 49

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

Question 50

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
​

____ ​Spanish Louisiana

Question 51

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 52

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
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____ Vermont

Question 53

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
​

____ Baltimore

Question 54

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 55

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 56

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

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

Question 57

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 58

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
​

____ Tennessee

Question 59

The Federalist Witch Hunt
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​
​The United States, Spanish Louisiana, and the Old Northwest Around 1789 and Before the Louisiana Purchase
​

____ Ohio

Question 60

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 61

During its first quarter-century as a nation, one of the most vexing problems facing America was

A)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.
B)a lack of good political leadership.
C)the continued fighting between the United States and the Armed Neutrality League.
D)managing Indian affairs and wars throughout the country.
E)separation of church and state.

Question 62

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 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)President Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating a peaceful resolution of the conflict 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

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 65

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 66

Which American political group was most alarmed by the Reign of Terror that occurred in France shortly after the French Revolution of 1789?

A)Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans
B)Hamiltonian Federalists
C)African American slaves
D)Free African Americans
E)American Indian tribes on the western frontier such as the Miamis

Question 67

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 68

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 69

The legal basis for Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States was

A)rejected by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
B)supported by Thomas Jefferson.
C)accepted by the bank's opponents, even if they disagreed with the goals and objectives of the bank on policy grounds.
D)based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution.
E)rejected by President George Washington.

Question 70

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 71

The formal Franco-American political and military defense alliance of 1778

A)was ended by mutual agreement in 1789.
B)bound the United States to neutrality in the event of war between France and Britain.
C)was weakened significantly by the issuance of President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793.
D)was invoked by the French to obtain American aid in France's war with Britain after 1793.
E)led the United States to war with Great Britain in 1812.

Question 72

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.

Question 73

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 74

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793

A)was based on calculations of American self-interest.
B)fulfilled America's obligations under the Franco-American Treaty.
C)was opposed by both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
D)dealt a severe blow to French military and naval strategists.
E)had little impact on future American foreign policy.

Question 75

When the French Revolution developed into a war with Britain, George Washington and the American government

A)supported Britain.
B)assisted France militarily.
C)tried to capture French possessions in North America and the West Indies.
D)remained neutral.
E)captured British possessions in North America.

Question 76

Political opponents of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton asserted that his major economic programs infringed on

A)constitutional guarantees of checks and balances of political power and authority among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the central government.
B)national security.
C)states' rights, explicitly reserved to them by pending ratification of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
D)free enterprise.
E)federal authority.

Question 77

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

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

Question 78

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 79

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) XYZ affair, (B) Neutrality Proclamation, (C) Jay's Treaty, and (D) Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.

A)C, B, A, D
B)B, A, C, D
C)B, C, A, D
D)C, B, D, A
E)A, B, D, C

Question 80

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.