06 Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1816

Question 1

cabinet

Answer 1

a group of advisers to the president

Question 2

Tariff of 1789

Answer 2

a tax on imports to raise revenue for the federal government

Question 3

bonds

Answer 3

paper notes promising to repay money after a certain length of time with interest

Question 4

speculators

Answer 4

people willing to take a risk in hopes of a future financial gain

Question 5

enumerated powers

Answer 5

powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution

Question 6

implied powers

Answer 6

powers not explicitly listed in the Constitution but necessary for the government to do its job

Question 7

Bank of the United States

Answer 7

a national bank

Question 8

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 8

a protest by farmers against the government’s tax on whiskey

Question 9

agrarianism

Answer 9

the belief that the strength of a country is in its independent farmers

Question 10

Jay’s Treaty

Answer 10

a treaty signed in 1794 between the United States and Great Britain that prevented war between the two countries

Question 11

most-favored nation

Answer 11

status given to a nation that guarantees no discrimination in trade with that nation

Question 12

Pinckney’s Treaty

Answer 12

a treaty signed in 1795 that granted the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi

Question 13

Washington’s Farewell Address

Answer 13

President Washington’s letter to the American people in which he warned them against sectionalism

Question 14

Quasi-War

Answer 14

an undeclared war at sea fought in 1798 between France and the United States

Question 15

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 15

four laws that included giving the president the right to deport aliens and made criticism of the government a criminal act

Question 16

alien

Answer 16

people living in a country who are not citizens

Question 17

sedition

Answer 17

incitement to rebellion

Question 18

interposition

Answer 18

the theory that said a state could step in between the federal government and the people to stop the federal government from doing something unconstitutional

Question 19

nullification

Answer 19

the theory that said the states had the right to declare a federal law invalid if they considered the law unconstitutional

Question 20

John Marshall

Answer 20

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, responsible for making the Supreme Court a powerful independent branch of the government

Question 21

judicial review

Answer 21

the power of the Supreme Court to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional and to strike down those laws that were not

Question 22

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 22

land purchased from France in 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States and gained U.S. control of the entire Mississippi River

Question 23

Meriwether Lewis

Answer 23

Jefferson’s private secretary and leader of the Corps of Discovery

Question 24

William Clark

Answer 24

leader of the Corps of Discovery

Question 25

Sacagawea

Answer 25

a Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition of the Louisiana Territory

Question 26

Zebulon Pike

Answer 26

explorer of the Louisiana Territory who mapped much of the upper Mississippi and provided a description of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains

Question 27

impressment

Answer 27

a legalized form of kidnapping

Question 28

embargo

Answer 28

a government ban on trade with other countries

Question 29

Non-Intercourse Act

Answer 29

a law passed to force the British to stop seizing American ships

Question 30

War Hawks

Answer 30

those who supported war with Britain

Question 31

Tecumseh

Answer 31

a Shawnee leader who worked for Native American resistance against encroachment on Native American lands

Question 32

William Henry Harrison

Answer 32

governor of the Indiana Territory

Question 33

Oliver Perry

Answer 33

commodore whose ships attacked the British fleet on Lake Erie

Question 34

Hartford Convention

Answer 34

a meeting that called for constitutional amendments to increase New England’s political power

Question 35

nationalism

Answer 35

feelings of strong patriotism

Question 36

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 36

treaty that ended the War of 1812