Chapter 8/9

Question 1

What amendments make up the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1

1-10

Question 2

What is the difference between a law and an amendment?

Answer 2

A law is a bill that gets passed and an admendment is a change to an existing law.

Question 3

How does an amendment get proposed?

Answer 3

2/3 of congress or states approve

Question 4

How does an amendment then get ratified?

Answer 4

Must be approved by 3/4 state legislative sessions

Question 5

What five civil liberties does the 1st Amendment protect?

Answer 5

Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition of the government

Question 6

What does the 2nd Amendment give you the right to own?

Answer 6

Firearms and weapons for defense

Question 7

What does the 4th Amendment protect you from? (Placed as a result of the Sugar Act)

Answer 7

Unreasonable searches and seizures

Question 8

What Amendment is important for people accused of committing crimes?

Answer 8

The fifth

Question 9

According to the 5th Amendment, natural rights cannot be taken away without what?

Answer 9

Due process of law

Question 10

What amendment gives you the right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury?

Answer 10

Sixth admendment

Question 11

What does the 9th Amendment keep the government from doing?

Answer 11

Limiting your rights to just 1-8

Question 12

What was given power in the 10th Amendment for protection?

Answer 12

A national government

Question 13

Who were the first President and Vice President in American history?

Answer 13

George Washington and John Adams

Question 14

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with?

State Department:

Treasury Department:

War Department:

Answer 14

State: relations with other nations

Treasury: deals with finicial matters

War: deals with the nations defense

Question 15

Who makes up the cabinet of the President?

Answer 15

The departments of state, treasury, war, and the attourney general

Question 16

Who was the first Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury?

Answer 16

State: Thomas Jefferson

Treasury: Alexander Hamelton

Question 17

What job title did Alexander Hamilton hold?

Answer 17

Secratary of Treasury

Question 18

What act established a federal court system?

Answer 18

Judicary Act of 1789

Question 19

What could federal courts do to state laws if deemed necessary?

Answer 19

Reverse state decisions

Question 20

Who was John Jay?

Answer 20

1st Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington

Question 21

What is a national debt?

Answer 21

The amount the government owes

Question 22

What did Alexander Hamilton want to do with state debts after the war?

Answer 22

Take all the total state war debts and splot them equally among all the states

Question 23

What area in America was against his plan and why did they feel this way?

Answer 23

The South, this raised their war debt

Question 24

Why did the South agree to accept Hamilton’s plan to lessen the national debt?

Answer 24

Cause they moved the capital to the south

Question 25

Why did Hamilton feel that it was ok for him to create a national bank?

Answer 25

Cause it was within the means of the constitution

Question 26

What is a tariff?

Answer 26

A tax on imported goods

Question 27

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 27

A civil uprising against the taxing power of the Federal Government

Question 28

Why did Washington not want to run for a third term to the Presidency?

Answer 28

He felt it would be similar to a monarchy, king-like term

Question 29

What are 3 aspects of the Federalist Party?

Answer 29

Favored strong national government, rule by government, and loose interpurtation of the constitution

Question 30

What are 4 aspects of the Democratic-Republican Party?

Answer 30

State banks, strong state governments, rule by the people, and strict interpritation of the constitution

Question 31

How did Washington feel about political parties?

Answer 31

They divided the people and kept the government from working togther

Question 32

What is favoring one side in a political decision?

Answer 32

Partisian

Question 33

Before the Election of 1796, what was held for the first time to determine Presidential candidates?

Answer 33

Cacusses

Question 34

What was the crisis with France involving three agents that tried to get money from America?

Answer 34

The XYZ Crisis

Question 35

Why were three acts created after the XYZ Affair?

Answer 35

To slow immigration

Question 36

What was the Naturalization Act?

Answer 36

Required aliens to live in the U.S. For 14 years before applying for citizenship

Question 37

What were the Alien Acts?

Answer 37

Allowed president to deport aliens that were considered harmful

Question 38

What was the Sedition Act?

Answer 38

A crime to speak or write false critisisms to try to weaken the government

Question 39

What Amendment did the Sedition Act contradict?

Answer 39

The first admendment

Question 40

What limits the power of the gov’t and protects the rights of the individual?

Answer 40

The bill of rights