Review 3

Question 1

Articles of Confederation CAN:

Answer 1

1. Direct national foreign policy
2. Direct the conduct of national wars
3. Borrow and print a national currency

Question 2

Articles of Confederation CANNOT:

Answer 2

1. Regulate trade
2. Levy taxes
3. Create an army

Question 3

Articles of Confederation PROBLEMS:

Answer 3

1. Could not regulate trade
2. Could not stop domestic insurrections

Question 4

Articles of Confederation HAD:

Answer 4

1. Unicameral congress
2. no president
3. no supreme court
4. each state had one vote

Question 5

Northwest ordinance

Answer 5

How territories/states were created

Question 6

Constitution Convention

Answer 6

-Movement started it Annapolis convention
-Held in Philadelphia
-55 delegates

Question 7

Virginia Plan

Answer 7

1. James Madison/Edmond Randolph
2. bicameral legislature
3. population representation
4. executive branch

Question 8

New Jersey Plan

Answer 8

1. unicameral legislature
2. equal representation
3. judiciary branch

Question 9

New Government CAN:

Answer 9

1. Regulate trade
2. Levy taxes
3. Create a navy/national guard
4. Control over national currency

Question 10

Legislative branch

Answer 10

-Upper house (senate)
-Lower house (House of representatives)
-Concurrent majority

Question 11

Executive branch

Answer 11

electoral collage
VETO

Question 12

Judicial branch

Answer 12

supreme court
nominated by president, approved/rejected by senate

Question 13

Hamilton

Answer 13

-loose constitution
-loved British government
-distrusted common man
-believed in industrialization

Question 14

Jefferson

Answer 14

-strict constitution
-agrarian society
-loved common man
-feared industrialization

Question 15

Hamilton’s credit plan

Answer 15

1. create national debt
2. assuming all war debt from states
3. create national bank

Question 16

Washington’s farewell address

Answer 16

1. Preserve nations credit
2. avoid permanent alliances
3. focus on unity

Question 17

Jacobins

Answer 17

“reign of terror”
XYZ affair, alien and sedition acts

Question 18

President Jefferson

Answer 18

“a government that governs least, governs best”

Question 19

Judicial review

Answer 19

Marbury v. Madison

Question 20

Jefferson’s acheivements

Answer 20

1. Repealed whiskey tax and other taxes
2. Closed unnecessary consuls
3. slashed funding for armed forces
   4. Louisiana Purchase “at the horns of a constitutional dilemma”

Question 21

Chesapeake Incident

Answer 21

immediate declaration of war against britain

Question 22

Embargo Act

Answer 22

-meant to punish Britain, devastated American economy
-War Hawks: wanted to bring Canada to the U.S.

Question 23

War of 1812

Answer 23

-Burning of D.C.
-Battle of Fort McHenry
-Battle of New Orleans* (Andrew Jackson)

Question 24

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 24

peace treaty, ended war of 1812

Question 25

Hartford Convention

Answer 25

New England threatened to secede