Chapter 9

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Bill of rights

Question 2

What amendments make up the Bill of Rights?

Answer 2

The first ten

Question 3

What is the difference between a law and an amendment?

Answer 3

Law is a bill that gets passed on

Amendment is a change to a law

Question 4

How does an amendment get proposed?

Answer 4

2/3 of congress of 2/3of the states

Question 5

How does an amendment then get ratified?

Answer 5

By 3/4 of the state legislature

Question 6

What five civil liberties does the 1st Amendment protect?

Answer 6

Freedom of…speech,religion,assembly,press and petition

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Weapons ///fire arms

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

Question 9

What Amendment is important for people accused of committing crimes?

Answer 9

5th admendment

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Process of law

Question 11

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

Answer 11

6th

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Claiming the bill of rights

Question 13

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

Answer 13

George Washington and

Question 14

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with?

Answer 14

State department «Handle relations with other nations
Treasury department «financial matter
War department «nations defense

Question 15

Who makes up the cabinet of the President?

Answer 15

Attorney general

Question 16

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

Answer 16

.state*thomas Jefferson

Treasury *alexander Hamilton

Question 17

What job title did Alexander Hamilton hold?

Answer 17

Sec. of treasury

Question 18

What act established a federal court system?

Answer 18

.judicary act 1789

Question 19

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

Answer 19

They could over turn laws

Question 20

Who was John Jay?

Answer 20

.1st Chief Justice of the supreme courts

Question 21

What is a national debt?

Answer 21

.the amount the govt owed Alexander Hamilton proposed a plan that would have federal government take care of the federal government care of the state debts from the war

Question 22

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

Answer 22

.the southern states were against this plan house because they owed less than the northern states and would have to pay more than their fair share to compensate

Question 23

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

Answer 23

.the southern states

Question 24

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

Answer 24

.in exchange for the us capital being moved to the south Washington DC

Question 25

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

Answer 25

They fell within the constitution

Question 26

What is a tariff?

Answer 26

.tax 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 believes that political parties divided people and kept the govt from working together

Question 29

What are 3 aspects of the Federalist Party?

Answer 29

• favored a strong federal government
• rule by wealthy
• loose interpretation of the constitution

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Cacuses were meeting held held by both parties to choose their candidate

Question 31

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

Answer 31

.XYZ affairs

Question 32

Why were three acts created after the XYZ Affair?

Answer 32

• naturalization act
• alien acts
• sedition acts

Question 33

What was the Naturalization Act?

Answer 33

Required aliens to live in the us for 14 years before being able to apply for citizenship

Question 34

What were the Alien Acts?

Answer 34

Allowed presidents to deport aliens

Question 35

What was the Sedition Act?

Answer 35

.a crime to speak of write false criticisms to try and weaken the government

Question 36

What Amendment did the Sedition Act contradict?

Answer 36

.1st