Chapter 10-Launcging the New Ship of State, 1789-1800 Part II Flashcards
The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on
the candidates’ personalitites
All of the following careers were tried by John Adams
scientist
doctor
orator
lawyer
The ____ amendment dealt with the problem of having a president and vice-president from two different political parties.
Twelth
Among the handicaps John Adams faced upon assuming the presidency were all of the following
- 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
The High Federalists were
supporters of the war faction of the Federalists party
The French grew angry with the United States after 1794 because
of Jay’s Treaty
Foreign relations between the United States and France deteriorated in the late 1790s over
French seizure of American merchant ships
The immediate cause of the undeclared war between the United STates and France was
the XYZ affair
The United States finally negotiated a peace settlement with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon
wanted to concentrate on gaining more power in Europe
President Adams sought a peaceful solution to the undeclared war wtih France in order to
prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war
The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to
silence and punish critics of the Federalists
The Federalist-dominated Congress’s Alien Act was aimed at _____, whereas the Sedition Act was primarily aimed at ________.
recent immigrants, newspapers
The Sedition Act
threatened First Amendment freedoms
As a result of the Sedition Acts
many Americans, staging political protest, found their Constitutional right to peaceful assembly was violated
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to
the Alien and Sedition Acts
According to the compact theory advocated by Jefferson and Madison
the national government was the creation of the thirteen sovereign states
According to the Federalists, the duty of juggling the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with
the Supreme Court
Federalists advocated rule by
the best people
Federalists strongly supported
law and order
For its continued success, Hamilton’s financial program relied heavily on
trade with Britain
Hamiltonian Federalists advocated
a strong central government
Thomas Jefferson appealed to all of the following groups
small shopkeepers
the underprivileged
the middle class
artisans
To the Jeffersonian Republicans, the ideal citizen of a republic was a(n)
independent farmer
Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which
the states retained the majority of political power
Jeffersonians believed in all of the following
- opposition to a national debt
- agriculture as the ideal occupation
- freedom of speech
- central authority should be kept to a minimum
Thomas Jefferson argued that a landless class of voters could be avoided in part by
continuing slavery
Jefferson said landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because
he feared that those without property could become political pawns of those who owned land
