Ch. 7 Exam

Question 0

Precedent

Answer 0

An action that later serves as an example

Question 1

When was George Washington elected president?

Answer 1

1789

Question 2

List GWs precedents

Answer 2

Voluntarily stepped down after two terms
Heads of executive departments report directly to him
Referred legal questions to the attorney general

Question 3

What are cabinet members?

Answer 3

Department heads who advise the president

Question 4

What dis the Judiciary act of 1789 create?

Answer 4

It created three levels of federal courts and defined powers and relationships to the state courts

Question 5

Associate Justices (then)

Answer 5

5

Question 6

Associate justices (now)

Answer 6

8

Question 7

Start of the French Revolution

Answer 7

1789

Question 8

Washington reelected

Answer 8

1792

Question 9

France and England go to war

Answer 9

1793

Question 10

John Jay’s Treaty

Answer 10

1794

Question 11

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 11

1794

Question 12

Thomas Pinckney’s Treaty

Answer 12

1795

Question 13

John Adams is elected president

Answer 13

1796

Question 14

XYZ affair

Answer 14

1798

Question 15

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 15

1798

Question 16

John Adams Treaty with France

Answer 16

1798

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson is elected president

Answer 17

1800

Question 18

Neutral

Answer 18

Unbiased, not favoring either side in a conflict

Question 19

Privateers

Answer 19

Private ships hired by a country to attack it’s enemies

Question 20

Right of deposit

Answer 20

A right that would allow American boats to transfer goods in New Orleans without paying cargo fees

Question 21

What was GWs plan towards the war between France and Great Britain?

Answer 21

Neutrality Proclamation

Question 22

What reasons did GWs advisors give for supporting France?

Answer 22

They had supported the US during the revolutionary war

Question 23

What reasons did GWs advisors give for supporting England?

Answer 23

Hoped to strengthen trading ties.

Question 24

What were the major results of Jay’s treaty?

Answer 24

Settled disputes between US and GB
GB would pay damages on seized US ships and abandon their forts on the NW frontier
US agreed to pay debts to GB

Question 25

What were the major results of Pinckney’s Treaty?

Answer 25

Settled the border and trade disputes with Spain
Spain agreed to recognize the US southern boundary
Reopened port at New Orleans
Gave right of deposit

Question 26

What were some causes of the conflict between the US and GB in the NW territory.

Answer 26

Americans continued to settle the NW territory despite Native American protests. The British supplied the Native Americans with guns so they would go to war with the Americans

Question 27

Where did (Mad) Anthony Wayne’s forces defeat Native American forces on August 20, 1794?

Answer 27

Fallen Timbers

Question 28

What did GW fear about the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 28

The rebels threatened the federal governments authority and congress could tax.

Question 29

How did GW feel about political groups?

Answer 29

Disagreements between political groups weakened government.

Question 30

Bonds

Answer 30

Certificates promising to repay a loan with interest by a certain date.

Question 31

Speculators

Answer 31

People who buy something at a risk with the hopes of making a future profit

Question 32

Assume

Answer 32

Take over

Question 33

Implied powers

Answer 33

Congress can pass any law that helps it to carry out its duties

Question 34

Edmund Genet

Answer 34

New French minister to US/ encourages Americans to seize British merchant ships

Question 35

Impressment

Answer 35

Forcing a person to serve in the armed forces

Question 36

Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions

Answer 36

Written by Thomas Jefferson

Argued states could nullify (overrule) federal law if it violated the Constitution