Ch 6 - Strong Start To The Nation Part 1

Question 0

What is the type of tax that was designed to help American industry grow by reducing foreign competition?

Answer 0

Protective tariff

Question 1

What proclaimed by Washington that no American could give active support on land or sea to any warring nation?

Answer 1

Proclamation of Neutrality

Question 2

What is the political party that favored control of the central government by an elite group of wealthy people?

Answer 2

Federalist

Question 3

What was the name of the protest by western Pennsylvania farmers who were unhappy with a tax n distiller liquors?

Answer 3

Whiskey rebellion

Question 4

What is the act that allowed the government to deport any foreigners that they deemed dangerous to the government?

Answer 4

Alien act

Question 5

What is the area of land west of the Mississippi River that was purchased from France n the 1803?

Answer 5

Louisiana territory

Question 6

Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury that developed a plan for driving the nation out of financial trouble?

Answer 6

Alexander Hamilton

Question 7

What is the political party that favored control of the central government by the common man with the backbone being the farmers?

Answer 7

Republican

Question 8

What is the national bank that was designed to help develop sound and uniform currency?

Answer 8

Bank of United States

Question 9

What is the type of interpretation of the Constitution that called for the government to follow it word for word?

Answer 9

“Strict” construction

Question 10

What is the type of interpretation of the Constitution that allowed the government to operate free of tight control?

Answer 10

“Loose” Construction

Question 11

What is the name of the treaty with France that George Washington decided NOT to honor in 1792?

Answer 11

Treaty of Alliance

Question 12

What is the act that established the basic structure of the Supreme Court?

Answer 12

Judiciary Act

Question 13

What is situation in France where American negotiators were forced to accept a bribe before negotiations with France could begin?

Answer 13

XYZ. Affair

Question 14

What act was designed to extend the number of years from 5 to 14 it took to become an American citizen?

Answer 14

Naturalization Act

Question 15

What is the area of the country where the nation’s capital would be built if the states agreed to allow the national government to assume the debts of all the states?

Answer 15

The south

Question 16

Who was the President and Vice-President from different parties who were elected in the election of 1796?

Answer 16

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

What is the tax that was designed to raise money such as the tax on distiller liquor?

Answer 17

Excise or Revenue Tax

Question 18

What name was given to the undeclared war with France during the Adams administration?

Answer 18

Quasi War

Question 19

What is the act that would imprison Republican newspaper editors for criticizing the central government?

Answer 19

Sedition Act

Question 20

What president gave 2 warnings in his farewell address:

1) . Do not join military alliances
2) . Do not develop political parties

Answer 20

George Washington

Question 21

What is the name of the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution?

Answer 21

The Bill of Rights

Question 22

Who was the first Secretary of State, the second Vice President and the third President of the United States?

Answer 22

Thomas Jefferson

Question 23

What is the elastic clause also known as?

Answer 23

Necessary and proper clause

Question 24

What is the name of the two explorers who sought information on plant, animal and human life between St. Louis and the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 24

Lewis and Clark