Question: How did Alexander Hamilton want to pay off the nation's debts?
Answer: By placing tariffs on imported goods.
Question: Which was a result of US debt in 1790?
Answer: US citizens lost confidence in their government.
Question: Which best describes why trade was difficult during Washington's first term as president?
Answer: There were multiple currencies.
Question: Hamilton believed that a national bank was constitutional based on
Answer: Implied powers and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
Question: What made trade difficult for the United States in 1790?
Answer: States were printing their own money.
Question: Why did Jefferson oppose the establishment of a national bank?
Answer: He thought it was unconstitutional.
Question: Which statement was true of the US economy in 1790?
Answer: The US had trouble borrowing money to pay its debts.
Question: As members of Alexander Hamilton's political party, Federalists believed in
Answer: A strong federal government.
Question: Alexander Hamilton wanted the national bank to be able to
Answer: loan money to the federal government.
Question: In order to gather experts to advise him on federal policy, President George Washington created
Answer: A cabinet.
Question: President Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by
Answer: Leading troops to Pennsylvania.
Question: As a result of the Whiskey Rebellion,
Answer: Jefferson divided the political parties.
Question: An American leader who opposed the French Revolution was
Answer: George Washington.
Question: Which was a belief of the early Democratic-Republican Party?
Answer: The United States should not have a national bank.
Question: Which best states George Washington's position toward the conflict between Great Britain and Napoleon's France?
Answer: He supported the British, although he was officially neutral.
Question: The Jay Treaty expressed the political beliefs of
Answer: George Washington and the Federalists.
Question: Which best states Thomas Jefferson's position toward the conflict between Great Britain and Napoleon's France?
Answer: He supported the French, believing that they were fighting for democracy.
Question: Which leaders and groups disagreed about the French Revolution?
Answer: George Washington and the Democratic-Republicans.
Question: What made it difficult for early US leaders to maintain neutrality during conflicts between France and Great Britain?
Answer: Each nation was pressuring the US to halt trade with the other.
Question: Which leader and group supported the signing of a trade treaty between Great Britain and the US?
Answer: Washington and the Federalists.
Question: Why were many news editors and printers convicted under the Sedition Act?
Answer: They criticized the government's actions.
Question: Why did US and French diplomats fail to smooth relations between the two countries in 1796?
Answer: French diplomats demanded large bribes and loans.
Question: How did the Alien and Sedition Acts affect the election of 1800?
Answer: John Adams lost support because the acts were unpopular.
Question: The law that made it a crime to criticize the government was the
Answer: Sedition Act.
Question: The winner of the presidential election in 1800 was
Answer: Thomas Jefferson.
Question: A long-term effect of the election of 1800 was
Answer: The decline of the Federalist Party.
Question: During the 1790s, France believed that the United States was losing its neutrality because of the
Answer: Jay Treaty.
Question: The legal idea of nullification, as argued by the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, relates to
Answer: State power versus federal power.
Question: The Naturalization Act affected the political process by
Answer: Increasing the time it took immigrants to gain the right to vote.
Question: During the 1790s, France wanted US support for its war with Great Britain because.
Answer: France helped during the American Revolution.
Question: Why did President Thomas Jefferson want control of New Orleans?
Answer: To control trade along the Mississippi River.
Question: For settlers in the Northwest Territory during the late 1700s, an important geographical feature was the
Answer: Great Lakes.
Question: Which phrase best describes Sacagawea?
Answer: A Shoshone woman who acted as an interpreter for Lewis and Clark.
Question: A main reason President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark west in the early 1800s was to
Answer: Find a water route to the Pacific.
Question: According to the Northwest Ordinance, a territory became a state when it
Answer: Had 60,000 adult males.
Question: In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from
Answer: France.
Question: During the Lewis and Clark expedition,
Answer: Sacagawea and her child helped smooth relations with American Indians.
Question: How did the Northwest Ordinance increase sectionalism in the United States?
Answer: It made slavery illegal.
Question: Which best describes why the United States wanted the Louisiana Territory?
Answer: To gain control of commerce on the Mississippi River.
Question: Why did France want sell the Louisiana Territory?
Answer: To fund its European wars.
Question: A result of the Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) decision was that states
Answer: Could regulate commerce only within their borders.
Question: The Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court ruled that in business disputes
Answer: Federal law always supersedes state law.
Question: According to Gibbons v. Ogden, a state
Answer: Could make laws regulating businesses that operated only in one state.
Question: The case of United States v. Stevens in 2010 is an example of the Supreme Court's power of
Answer: Judicial review.
Question: In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled that state law
Answer: Could not override federal law.
Question: The implied powers of Congress
Answer: Are suggested but not stated in the Constitution.
Question: An example of commerce that would be regulated by the federal government is
Answer: A ferry that takes passengers from New York to New Jersey.
Question: The power to establish a national bank is
Answer: An implied power of Congress.
Question: In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled that
Answer: Gibbons's federal license allowed him to operate in multiple states.
Question: The Judiciary Act of 1789
Answer: Gave the Supreme Court the power to hear special cases.
Question: two months after the United States entered the War of 1812, the USS Constitution
Answer: Sank the British HMS Guerriere.
Question: What was Tec*mseh's main goal in working with the British?
Answer: To protect American Indian lands from white settlement.
Question: What role did Tec*mseh play in the War of 1812?
Answer: He created an alliance with the British against Americans.
Question: The Royal Navy's use of impressment involved
Answer: Making American sailors serve in Britain's Royal Navy.
Question: What problem did Americans face at home as the War of 1812 developed on the seas?
Answer: Strained relations with American Indians.
Question: A reason the US and Great Britain ended the War of 1812 was because
Answer: Neither side was clearly winning.
Question: As a result of British-led raids along the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812, the British
Answer: Burned down the White House.
Question: During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain and France each tried to
Answer: Get US support.
Question: The passage of the Embargo Act
Answer: Stopped all international trade to and from American ports.
Question: After the War of 1812, the United States was seen as a greater military power because
Answer: There was no clear winner.
Question: By the 1820s, almost all of Latin America was
Answer: Made up of independent republics.
Question: How did Great Britain respond to the Monroe Doctrine?
Answer: By using its navy to control the oceans.
Question: Which contributed to Americans' sense of nationalism following the War of 1812?
Answer: The US defeat of pirates in the Mediterranean.
Question: How did Theodore Roosevelt use the Monroe Doctrine in the twentieth century?
Answer: To justify US involvement in Latin America.
Question: A long-term result of the Monroe Doctrine was that the United States
Answer: Became involved in Latin American affairs.
Question: Why were European monarchs offended by the Monroe Doctrine?
Answer: They had no intentions of recolonizing the Americas.
Question: Which best explains the message the Monroe Doctrine sent to other nations?
Answer: That the United States was powerful enough to stop new colonization in the Americas.
Question: How did the United States acquire West Florida from Spain in 1812?
Answer: By seizing Mobile.
Question: A reason the US was able to acquire all of Florida in the Adams-Onis Treaty was that it agreed to give up claims on
Answer: Texas.
Question: Which European nation supported the Monroe Doctrine?
Answer: Great Britain.
Question: Who commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson.
Question: The Whiskey Rebellion began when
Answer: Pennsylvania farmers threatened and attacked officials.
Question: The legal theory under which states were able to reject federal laws deemed unconstitutional was known as
Answer: nullification.
Question: Why did James Monroe and Robert Livingston act quickly to buy the Louisiana territory?
Answer: They were afraid that Napoleon might change his mind and revoke the agreement.
Question: The Supreme Court's ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, that federal law is superior to state law, directly influenced which case?
Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden.
Question: During the presidency of John Adams, both France and Brtain
Answer: Seized US ships.
Question: How did George Washington approach the foreign threats posed by Great Britain and France?
Answer: He tried to remain neutral.
Question: When people began to settle west of the Appalachians in the late 1700s, they were mainly looking for
Answer: Fertile farmland.
Question: People who opposed Alexander Hamilton's plans to improve the economy
Answer: Did not want a strong federal government.
Question: The Maryland state law involved in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland
Answer: Taxed a federal bank.
Question: Judicial review is best defined as
Answer: A process used to determine whether a law is constitutional.
Question: Which best shows that the United States was confident in its economy in 1816?
Answer: Congress chartered a second national bank in Philadelphia.
Question: As a result of the US Navy's defeat of the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, the British
Answer: Retreated from Detroit.
Question: Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans
Answer: Believed the French the Revolution was similar to the American Revolution.
Question: An effect of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was that
Answer: Conflict increased between settlers and American Indians
