ABeka History 11 - Chapter 8 - Section Reviews
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- (1.0, 144) Where was our nation's first capital located?
- New York City
- (1.0, 144) List the first five members of the Presidential Cabinet with their titles.
- Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state; Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury; Henry Knox, secretary of war; Edmund Randolph, attorney general; Samuel Osgood, postmaster general
- (1.0, 144) What act of Congress organized a federal court system?
- Judiciary Act of 1789
- (1.0, 144) Identify the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.
- John Jay
- (2.0, 148) List and briefly explain the three categories into which Hamilton divided America's national debt.
- foreign debt (owed to foreign creditors), domestic debt (owed to American investors), and state debts (assumed by the national government)
- (2.0, 148) What is another name for strict interpretation of the Constitution?
- strict construction
- (2.0, 148) What is another name for loose interpretation of the Constitution?
- loose construction
- (2.0, 148) What kind of tariffs were implemented to aid American manufacturing by discouraging the importation of certain products?
- protective tariffs
- (2.0, 148) Upon which product was the first federal excise tax placed?
- whiskey
- (2.0, 148) What act of Congress established a mint and provided for the coinage of gold, silver, and copper?
- Mint Act of 1792
- (2.0, 148) What political party supported a powerful central government?
- Federalists
- (2.0, 148) What political party stood for states' rights and against expanding the powers of the federal government?
- Democratic-Republicans, Republicans, or Jeffersonian Republicans
- (3.0, 152) Who was the absolute monarch overthrown in the French Revolution?
- Louis XVI
- (3.0, 152) Name the French diplomat who came to America to seek aid for his country.
- Citizen Edmond Genet
- (3.0, 152) Who was sent by President Washington to negotiate a treaty with the British?
- John Jay
- (3.0, 152) What treaty settled the disputed boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States?
- Pinckney Treaty
- (3.0, 152) Name the battle in which forces under the command of General Anthony Wayne decisively defeated the Indians.
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- (4.0, 157) Who was the Federalist candidate for President in the election of 1796?
- John Adams
- (4.0, 157) Who was the Republican candidate for President in the election of 1796?
- Thomas Jefferson
- (4.0, 157) Who won the election of 1796?
- John Adams
- (4.0, 157) Who was elected Vice President in 1796?
- Thomas Jefferson
- (4.0, 157) Name the situation in which three unofficial French representatives tried to bribe three American commissioners.
- XYZ Affair
- (4.0, 157) How did the Alien and Sedition Acts provoke a conflict over states' rights?
- Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts, and they supported this move with the compact theory of government, declaring that the Constitution was a compact made by sovereign states and that each state could judge for itself what acts violated that compact.
- (4.0, 157) What two states drew up resolutions condemning the Alien and Sedition Acts?
- Kentucky and Virginia
- (4.0, 157) Who was elected President in 1800?
- Thomas Jefferson
- (4.0, 157) What amendment stated that each elector would specify one vote for President and one vote for Vice President?
- 12th Amendment
- (4.0, 157) List the contributions of the Federalists to American government.
- The Federalists launched the great Constitutional republic, set the nation on a sound financial basis, established a central government with enough power to hold the Union intact, protected the infant nation from foreign wars, and oversaw the project of relocating the nation's capital in Washington.
- (3.0, 152) Name the old fort in Paris which was stormed by French revolutionaries.
- the Bastille