AP US History - Chapter 10 Flashcards

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