Ch8 - The Federalist Era

Question 0

Attorney general

Answer 0

Handles legal affairs of government

Question 1

3 executive departments created by new congress

Answer 1

Department of state, department of the treasury, war department

Question 2

Postmaster general

Answer 2

Oversees post offices and post roads

Question 3

First Secretary of State

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson

Question 4

First secretary of the treasury

Answer 4

Alexander Hamilton

Question 5

First secretary of war

Answer 5

Henry Knox

Question 6

First attorney general

Answer 6

Edmund Randolph

Question 7

First postmaster general

Answer 7

Samuel osgood

Question 8

First Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Answer 8

John Jay

Question 9

Excise tax

Answer 9

A tax on a product produced, sold, and consumed in the home country

Question 10

Mint act of 1792

Answer 10

Established a mint and provided for the coinage of gold, silver, and copper

Question 11

Bank notes

Answer 11

Paper money which could be exchanged for gold or silver coins

Question 12

Hamiltons 3 categories of debt

Answer 12

Foreign ($12M), domestic ($40M), state ($21M)

Question 13

Protective tariffs

Answer 13

Implemented to discourage importation of certain products

Question 14

Jay treaty

Answer 14

England agreed to abandon forts, to submit to settlement of disputes boundaries and damaged done to American seamen, to open certain ports to American ships

Question 15

Pinckney treaty

Answer 15

Settled boundary between Spanish Florida and the United States

Question 16

Battle of fallen timbers

Answer 16

General Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians

Question 17

15th state

Answer 17

Kentucky

Question 18

16th state

Answer 18

Tenessee

Question 19

French diplomat who came to US to enlist help for revolution

Answer 19

Citizen Edmond Genêt

Question 20

3 man peace commission sent to France in xyz affair

Answer 20

Charles c Pinckney, john Marshall, Elbridge Gerry

Question 21

Department of the Navy

Answer 21

Created in 1798 as a prep for war with France

Question 22

Alien and sedition acts

Answer 22

1798

Question 23

Judiciary act of 1801

Answer 23

Called for creation of 16 new federal judgeships