Chapter 8 Flashcards
(54 cards)
Name position of 1)Thomas Jefferson 2)Alexander Hamilton 3)Henry Knox
Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury
Henry Knox - Secretary of War
The WHAT Amendment might rightly be called the “states’ rights” amendment?
Tenth
Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt…
was beneficial because people to whom the gov’t owed money would work hard to make the nation a success
Alexander Hamilton’s proposed bank of the US was…
based on the “necessary and proper” or “elastic” clause in the Constitution
The Bill of Rights was intended to protect BLANK against the potential tyranny of BLANK
individual liberties…..a strong central gov’t
The immediate cause of the undeclared war between US and France was…
the XYZ Affair
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to…
the Alien and Sedition Acts
Federalist advocated rule by….
the “best” people
According to the Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with….
the Supreme Court
When the French Rev. developed into war with GB, George Washington and the US gov’t…
remained neutral
The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to…
silence and punish critics of the Federalists
Hamiltonian Federalists advocated…
a strong central gov’t
The Federalist-dominated Congress’s Alien Act was aimed at BLANK, whereas the Sedition Act was mostly aimed at BLANK
recent immigrants….newspaper
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Penn. when the federal gov’t…
levied an excise tax on whiskey
In Jay’s Treaty, the British
promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787…
established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest Territory
The Land Ordinance of 1785 did NOT provide for….
prohibiting slavery
Match A. Britain B. France C. Spain D. Barbary Coast w/ its problems in US foreign relations.
Britain - occupied a chain of trading forts in the Old Northwest
France - demanded repayment of wartime moles
Spain - controlled important trade routes from the interior of North America
Barbary Coast - threatened American commerce in the Mediterranean
When the US entered the War of 1812, it was…
militarily unprepared
At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was….
incapable of being enforced by the US
The first state entirely west of the MS River to come from the Louisiana Territory was…
Missouri
As a result of the Missouri Compromise…
slavery was banned north of the 36-30 in the Louisiana Territory Purchase
This was NOT a result of the Missouri Compromise.
Sectionalism was reduced
American’s campaign against Canada in the War of 1812 was…
a complete failure
