Chapter 10-Launcging the New Ship of State, 1789-1800 Part II

Question 0

The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on

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the candidates’ personalitites

Question 1

All of the following careers were tried by John Adams

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scientist
doctor
orator
lawyer

Question 2

The ____ amendment dealt with the problem of having a president and vice-president from two different political parties.

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Twelth

Question 3

Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following

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• trying to fill the popular George Washington’s shoes
• Hamilton’s hatred of him and efforts to undermine him
• his demeanor as an intellectual and elite, which made him unappealing to the masses
• his narrow victory in his bid for office

Question 4

The High Federalists were

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supporters of the war faction of the Federalists party

Question 5

The French grew angry with the United States after 1794 because

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of Jay’s Treaty

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Foreign relations between the United States and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over

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French seizure of American merchant ships

Question 7

The immediate cause of the undeclared war between the United STates and France was

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the XYZ affair

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The United States finally negotiated a peace settlement with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon

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wanted to concentrate on gaining more power in Europe

Question 9

President Adams sought a peaceful solution to the undeclared war wtih France in order to

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prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war

Question 10

The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to

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silence and punish critics of the Federalists

Question 11

The Federalist-dominated Congress’s Alien Act was aimed at _____, whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at ________.

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recent immigrants, newspapers

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The Sedition Act

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threatened First Amendment freedoms

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As a result of the Sedition Acts

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many Americans, staging political protest, found their Constitutional right to peaceful assembly was violated

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to

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the Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 15

According to the compact theory advocated by Jefferson and Madison

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the national government was the creation of the thirteen sovereign states

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According to the Federalists, the duty of juggling the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with

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the Supreme Court

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Federalists advocated rule by

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the best people

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Federalists strongly supported

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law and order

Question 19

For its continued success, Hamilton’s financial program relied heavily on

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trade with Britain

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Hamiltonian Federalists advocated

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a strong central government

Question 21

Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups

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small shopkeepers
the underprivileged
the middle class
artisans

Question 22

To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was a(n)

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independent farmer

Question 23

Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which

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the states retained the majority of political power

Question 24

Jeffersonians believed in all of the following

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• opposition to a national debt
• agriculture as the ideal occupation
• freedom of speech
• central authority should be kept to a minimum

Question 25

Thomas Jefferson argued that a landless class of voters could be avoided in part by

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continuing slavery

Question 26

Jefferson said landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because

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he feared that those without property could become political pawns of those who owned land