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| 5714217495 | When the new government was launched in 1789 - | the nation's population as doubling about every twenty-five years. | 0 | |
| 5714239233 | All of the following are accurate descriptions of the young American nation except - | most of the population still lived in eastern seaboard cities. | 1 | |
| 5714271417 | The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a - | cabinet. | 2 | |
| 5714296700 | One of the major criticisms of the Constitution, as drafted in Philadelphia, was that it - | did not provide guarantees for individual rights. | 3 | |
| 5714326522 | Match the individual with his office in the new government: | A-2,B-4, C-3, D-1 | 4 | |
| 5714340875 | The Bill of Rights was intended to protect _____ against the potential tyranny of _____. | individual liberties; a strong central government | 5 | |
| 5714354899 | One of the first jobs facing the new government, formed under the Constitution, was to - | draw up and pass a bill of rights. | 6 | |
| 5714370176 | All of the following are guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except - | the right to vote for all citizens. | 7 | |
| 5714382895 | The _____ Amendment might rightly be called the states' rights amendment. | tenth | 8 | |
| 5714405323 | All of the following were true of Alexander Hamilton except - | his intelligence was constantly under question, but his loyalty to the republican experience never wavered. | 9 | |
| 5714425175 | Alexander Hamilton's financial program for the economic development of the United States favored - | the wealthier class. | 10 | |
| 5714484791 | Hamilton believed that, together, his funding and assumption programs would - | gain the monetary and political support of the rich for the federal government. | 11 | |
| 5714523247 | As secretary of treasury, Alexander Hamilton's first objection was to - | bolster the national credit. | 12 | |
| 5714616800 | All of the following were part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program except - | paying only domestic debts but not foreign debts. | 13 | |
| 5714685482 | Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt - | was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success. | 14 | |
| 5714851887 | The aspect of Hamilton's financial program that received the least support in Congress, because of its heavy agricultural and commercial interests, was - | a protective tariff. | 15 | |
| 5714917708 | Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from - | customs duties and taxes. | 16 | |
| 5714972392 | Alexander Hamilton's proposed bank of the United States was - | based on the "necessary and proper" or "elastic" clause in the Constitution. | 17 | |
| 5715079114 | Jefferson's argument against the constitutionality of a Bank of the United States were based on the strict construction principles, especially embodied in the - | tenth amendment in the Bill of Rights. | 18 | |
| 5715105009 | Hamilton's major programs seriously infringed on - | states' rights. | 19 | |
| 5715121114 | The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government - | levied an excise tax on whiskey. | 20 | |
| 5715136431 | All of the following are true statements about the Whiskey Rebellion except - | Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating with the protesters. | 21 | |
| 5715160719 | The Founders had not envisioned the existence of permanent political parties because they - | saw them as a sign of disloyalty and lack of national unity. | 22 | |
| 5715175917 | Match each political leader with his positions on public policy in the 1790s: | A-1,2,4,6 ; B-3,5,7,8 | 23 | |
| 5715194892 | Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in - | the formation of permanent political parties. | 24 | |
| 5715210997 | The political parties of the outs that provided the loyal opposition to the party in power in the 1790s was the - | Democratic-Republicans. | 25 | |
| 5715222413 | The Franco-American alliance of 1778 - | bound the US to help the French defend their possessions in the West Indies. | 26 | |
| 5715234854 | The Neutrality Proclamation in 1793 - | officially proclaimed America's neutrality in Old World quarrels. | 27 | |
| 5715254909 | When the French Revolution developed into war with Britain, George Washington and the American government - | remained neutral. | 28 | |
| 5715262656 | Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 - | was based on calculations of American self-interest. | 29 | |
| 5715289511 | Arrange the following events in chronological order: XYZ Affair (A), Neutrality Proclamation (B), Jay's Treaty (C), Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (D). | B, C, A, D. | 30 | |
| 5715303628 | During its first quarter-century as a nation, one of the major problems facing America was - | the rivalry and warfare between France and Britain. | 31 | |
| 5715317259 | Washington's Neutrality Proclamation clearly illustrated the truism that - | self-interest is the basic cement of alliances. | 32 | |
| 5715348945 | The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation resulted in all of the following except - | the establishment of an equal relationship with the Indians. | 33 | |
| 5715362855 | Britain made neutrality very difficult for the US during the French and British conflicts of the 1790s by - | seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies. | 34 | |
| 5715378836 | Hamilton's position on the war between Britain and France in 1793 was primarily influenced by - | the national government's dependence on customs collections for revenue. | 35 | |
| 5715387330 | In Jay's Treaty, the British - | promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest. | 36 | |
| 5715413957 | The US acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River, the rights of deposit at New Orleans, and the large disputed territory north of Florida in - | the Pinckney Treaty. | 37 | |
| 5715422948 | John Jay's 1794 treaty with Britain - | created deeper splits between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. | 38 | |
| 5715437643 | One of George Washington's major contributions as president as - | keeping the nation out of foreign wars. | 39 | |
| 5715447857 | Washington's decision to retire from the presidency in 1797 - | established a two-term tradition for American presidents. | 40 | |
| 5715457697 | Jay's Treaty contained all of the following provisions except - | no promise by the British to pay for future seizures of American ships. | 41 | |
| 5715471334 | Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 - | warned against the dangers of permanent foreign alliances. | 42 | |
| 5715486799 | In the election campaign of 1796, the Democratic-Republicans made their primary issue - | the terms of Jay's Treaty and the crushing of the Whiskey Rebellion. | 43 | |
| 5715499621 | The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on - | the candidates' personalities. | 44 | |
| 5715515346 | The _____ amendment dealt with the problem of having a president and vice president from two different political parties. | twelfth. | 45 | |
| 5715532319 | Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following except - | his wishy-washy positions on the issues of the day. | 46 | |
| 5715541785 | The High Federalists were - | supporters of the war faction of the Federalist party. | 47 | |
| 5715554350 | The French grew angry with the US after 1794 because - | of Jay's Treaty. | 48 | |
| 5715562904 | Foreign relations between the US and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over - | French seizure of American merchant ships. | 49 | |
| 5715571049 | The immediate cause of the undeclared war between the US and France was - | the XYZ affair. | 50 | |
| 5715580796 | The US finally negotiated a peace settlement with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon - | wanted to concentrate on gaining more power in Europe. | 51 | |
| 5715594179 | President Adams sought a peaceful solution to the undeclared war with France in order to - | prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war. | 52 | |
| 5715607650 | The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to - | silence and punish critics of the Federalists. | 53 | |
| 5715623841 | The Federalist-dominated Congress' Alien Actwas aimed at _____, while the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at _____. | recent immigrants ; newspapers | 54 | |
| 5715626580 | The Sedition Act - | threatened First Amendment freedoms. | 55 | |
| 5715636369 | As a result of the Sedition Acts - | newspaper editors critical of the Adams Administration were indicted, tried, and sent to jail. | 56 | |
| 5715650512 | The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were written in response to - | the Alien and Sedition Acts. | 57 | |
| 5715659387 | According to the compact theory advocated by Jefferson and Madison - | the national government was the creation of the thirteen sovereign states. | 58 | |
| 5715673529 | According to the Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with - | the Supreme Court. | 59 | |
| 5715684976 | Federalists advocated rule by - | the best people. | 60 | |
| 5715688537 | Federalists strongly supported - | law and order. | 61 | |
| 5715697019 | For its continued success, Hamilton's financial program relied heavily on - | trade with Britain. | 62 | |
| 5715701979 | Hamiltonian Federalists advocated - | a strong central government. | 63 | |
| 5715708926 | Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups except - | the upper class. | 64 | |
| 5715716372 | To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was an - | independent farmer. | 65 | |
| 5715722531 | Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which - | the states retained the majority of political power. | 66 | |
| 5715738182 | Jeffersonians believed in all of the following except - | every adult white male's right to vote. | 67 | |
| 5715750873 | Jefferson said landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because - | he feared that those without property could become political pawns of those who owned land. | 68 |
