Unit 4

Question 1

Set many precedents as the first president. He voluntarily served only two terms as president, appointed a cabinet of advisors that included Secretary of State, Treasury, and War, and gave an inaugural and farewell address.

Answer 1

George Washington

Question 2

As part of Hamilton’s plan to pay back the national debt, the government imposed a tax on all whiskey. Many backcountry farmers made money by turning the corn they grew into whiskey. This severely hurt their income. In 1794 farmers in Pennsylvania revolted. Washington quickly dispersed the rebellion showing the power of the central government.

Answer 2

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 3

In 1796, George Washington voluntarily left the office of President of the United States. He gives the United States two pieces of advice in this speech. He warned against political parties and advised the United States to stay away from permanent alliance with European countries.

Answer 3

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Question 4

The secretary of the Senate and he created a three part plan to bring the nation out of debt. Hamilton was also a federalist and supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution to provide for a National Bank. (FEDERALIST)

Answer 4

Alexander Hamilton

Question 5

The belief that the government could do some things that were not directly permitted by the Constitution through the elastic. (FEDERALIST)

Answer 5

Loose construction

Question 6

A draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president. He was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and he argued the National Bank was unconstitutional. (REPUBLICAN)

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson

Question 7

The belief that the government can only do things that the Constitution specifically says. The Republican Party favored this belief. (REPUBLICAN)

Answer 7

Strict construction

Question 8

A part of Hamilton’s three part plan to bring the nation out of debt after the American Revolution. This would be the location to deposit federal funds.

Answer 8

National Bank

Question 9

All free men (white and African Americans) 21 years or older had voting rights, no supreme court, weak executive position.

Answer 9

Tennessee Constitution of 1796

Question 10

One of the founding fathers of Tennessee and helped Daniel Boone establish the Watauga settlement, which was one of Tennessee’s earliest settlements. He is sometimes referred to as “The Father of Middle Tennessee.”

Answer 10

James Robertson

Question 11

The first territorial governor of Tennessee from 1790-1796. He was also one of the first two senators elected from Tennessee in 1796. This guy served in the Revolutionary War and helped negotiate the Treaty of Holston.

Answer 11

William Blount

Question 12

A short-lived attempt by Richard Henderson and investors to purchase a large chunk of Kentucky and Tennessee (1775) (controlled by the Cherokee) in order to make a profit in the animal pelt business. This colony ceased to exist when the Virginia General Assembly invalidated the purchase. These events led to the future Watauga Settlements and their petitions to govern themselves independent of British rule.

Answer 12

Transylvania Purchase

Question 13

The first known attempt by colonists to create a government that was independent and separate from Britain. This was located in modern day east Tennessee and laid the foundation for other people moving and settling in the state.

Answer 13

Watauga Settlement

Question 14

A peace treaty signed by the United States government and the Cherokee nation (1791). The U.S. government promised to protect the Cherokee people and stay peaceful towards their nation moving forward.

Answer 14

Treaty of Holston

Question 15

Succeeded the presidency after George Washington left office. Immediately the French did not like him for remaining neutral in their conflicts. A Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. His son was the nation’s sixth president.

Answer 15

John Adams

Question 16

John Adams sent 3 diplomats to France to work out any issues. When these American diplomats arrived in France, the French would not speak to them. Three French agents told the Americans that they would only speak to them if the Americans paid the French $250,000 and gave the government a loan of several million dollars. This outraged many Americans and had several leaders calling for war.

Answer 16

XYZ Affair

Question 17

Adams was being criticized heavily by Republicans for avoiding war with France. Congress passed 2 laws in 1798 in the wake of this outcry for war. As a result this act increased the duration from 5 to 14 years that a person had to live in the United States to become a citizen.

Answer 17

Alien Act

Question 18

Adams was being criticized heavily by Republicans for avoiding war with France. Congress passed 2 laws in 1798 in the wake of this outcry for war. This act made it a crime for anyone to write or say anything insulting or false about the President, Congress, or the government in general.

Answer 18

Sedition Act

Question 19

Also known as the election of 1800 in which Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership.

Answer 19

Revolution of 1800

Question 20

The chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Marbury v. Madison case.

Answer 20

John Marshall

Question 21

This case established judicial review, which is the authority of the Supreme Court to write a law unconstitutional.

Answer 21

Marbury v. Madison

Question 22

Trade with Europe was critical to the United States’ success. There was a group of pirates from the North African countries of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, and Tripoli. These pirates began attacking American merchant ships. Thomas Jefferson sent American warships to protect our merchant ships.

Answer 22

Defeat of the Barbary Pirates

Question 23

Legislation by the U.S. Congress in December 1807 that closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain. The act was President Thomas Jefferson’s response to British interference with neutral U.S. merchant ships.

Answer 23

Embargo Act

Question 24

By the 1800s, more than one million people were living between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi. Most settlers in this region were farmers. Because there were few roads in the West, they relied on the Mississippi River to ship their crops to the port at New Orleans. Spain, which controlled the Mississippi and New Orleans, often threatened to close the ports. Pinckney’s Treaty granted the American’s rights to use these ports. But then, the U.S. found out Spain secretly sold New Orleans and the rest of its Louisiana Territory to France. France tried to conquer America, but that failed, so France sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. for 15 million dollars, 4 cents an acre.

Answer 24

Louisiana Purchase

Question 25

This duo set off to explore the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Their goal was to find a waterway that stretched from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, the expedition crossed the Rocky Mountains and eventually made it to the Pacific Ocean. One of these people is related to Mr. Mack.

Answer 25

Lewis and Clark

Question 26

The wife of a French fur trader, served as a guide/translator on Lewis and Clark’s expedition.

Answer 26

Sacagawea