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

10 amendments

Question 3

What is the difference between a law and an amendment?

Answer 3

A law is a bill the gets passed and an amendment is a chants to an excising law

Question 4

How does an amendment get proposed?

Answer 4

By 2/3 of congress or 2/3 of the states

Question 5

How does an amendment then get ratified?

Answer 5

3/5 of the state legislatures

Question 6

What five civil liberties does the 1st Amendment protect?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Firearms

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Unreasonable searches without probable cause

Question 9

What Amendment is important for people accused of committing crimes?

Answer 9

5th

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Due to 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 are the only rights Americans have

Question 13

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

Answer 13

States could be used as protection against the powers of a national government

Question 14

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

Answer 14

George Washington and john Adams

Question 15

Who makes up the cabinet of the President?

Answer 15

Attorney general

Question 16

What job title did Alexander Hamilton hold?

Answer 16

Secretary of war

Question 17

What act established a federal court system?

Answer 17

Judiciary act

Question 18

Who was John jay?

Answer 18

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The southern states

Question 20

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

Answer 20

They were against it

Question 21

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

Answer 21

He said it will strengthen the nations economy

Question 22

What is a tariff?

Answer 22

Tax on imported goods

Question 23

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 23

A civil uprising against the taxing power of the federal gov’t

Question 24

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

Answer 24

He thought that political parties

Question 25

How did Washington feel about political parties?

Answer 25

He thought that they divided people and kept the govern from working together

Question 26

What is favoring one side in a political decision?

Answer 26

Federalist

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Caucuses were meeting held by both parties to choose their candidate

Question 28

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

Answer 28

XYZ Affairs

Question 29

Why were three acts created after the XYZ Affair?

Answer 29

Naturalization act Alien act Sedition act

Question 30

What was the Naturalization Act?

Answer 30

Had to have aliens live in the us for 14 years before being legal

Question 31

What were the Alien Acts?

Answer 31

Allowed presidents to deport aliens

Question 32

What was the Sedition Act?

Answer 32

A crime to speak and weaken the government

Question 33

What Amendment did the Sedition Act contradict?

Answer 33

First

Question 34

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with? State Department Treasury Department War Department

Answer 34

State department-

Question 35

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with? State Department Treasury Department War Department

Answer 35

State department-