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How did Washington gain support he needed to properly operate the executive branch

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Congress created three executive departments to give counsel

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On what issue were many of the disagreements between Jefferson and Hamilton based

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Hamilton’s plan for the economy

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Which issue caused the first political parties to form

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The power and size of the federal government

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What did James Madison mean when he said we are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us?

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This is an entirely new form of government. There is no examples to follow.

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(+ or o) Washington Father no children of his own

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The idea of moving the nations capital to a southern site was initiated by

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Alexander Hamilton

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The shortest president in US history was

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James Madison

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An open rebellion started when Hamilton pushed to an excise tax on

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Whiskey

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Under the constitution the nations first capital is located in

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New York

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The governments, early law, which provided for Supreme Court consisting of a chief justice, and five associate justice was the

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Judiciary act of 1789

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Of the following, who is not one of the engineers/surveyors who laid out the new capital of Washington DC

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Roger Sherman

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(+ or o) the idea of a national bank, was supported by those who favored a straight interpretation of the constitution

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o

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(+ or o) Washington personally owned many slaves

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Alexander Hamilton’s most bitter arrival was

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Thomas Jefferson

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What was one of the most important foreign policy questions that the young U.S. faced in the late 1700s?

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Should the U.S. support the French Revolution

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Why was Little Turtle replaced as leader of his people?

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He urged his people to seek peace with the white settlers

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Why was the XYZ Affair considered an insult to the Americans

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The French government tried to charge US officials money to see the French foreign minister

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George Washington died of

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a severe cold

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The Alien and Sedition Acts were laws created to counter what the US government saw as

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French, and other European’s interference with United States national interest

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The 2nd United States President was

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John Adams

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On April 22,1793 President Washington issued the declaration of neutrality, which stated that

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The US would not enter into the war between Britain and France.

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Because the Democratic Republicans saw the Alien and Sedition Acts as serious misuse of power on the part of the federal government, they issued the

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Nullification Act

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The placing of interest of one religion over those of the nation as a whole is known as

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sectionalism

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John Jay’s Treaty provided an agreement between the United States and

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Great Britain over the area west of the Appalachian

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(+ or o) General Anthony Wayne was responsible for winning the Ohio territory from the Native Americans of the Miami Confederation

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In 1795 the United States signed a treaty with Spain in which Spain gave up all claims to land east of Mississippi. The treaty was negotiated by

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Thomas Pickney

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(+ or o) Edmond Genet was a French diplomat sent to the US to win support for the cause of the French Revolution, and their war against England

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28
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What caused the 12th Amendment to be passed

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the deadlock in the 1800 presidential election

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Why was the case of Marbury v Madison important

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it affirmed the Supreme Court’s ability to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional

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At first, why did Jefferson want to buy New Orleans and western Florida from the French?

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He didn’t want the US to form an alliance with Great Britain

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The Louisiana Territory was purchased from

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France

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The Presidential election of 1800 was a bitter struggle between

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

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(+ or o) The Wilderness Road went through the Cumberland Gap to open the way to the Louisiana Territory

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o

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A staunch federalist, and chief justice of the supreme court during the presidencies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was a man named

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John Marshall

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(+ or o) The Louisiana Territory was purchased for nine million dollars

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o

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The Corps of Discovery was sent by Jefferson to

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explore the Louisiana Territory.

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The ability of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional is called

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judiciary procedure

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The guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition was

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Sacajawea

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The war hawks were a group of congressmen from the South and West. They felt that the war with Great Britain was necessary because the British were supplying weapons to the

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Native Americans

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Why did Tecumseh fight on the side of the British during the War of 1812

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He hoped the British would help stop US expansion on the continent

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Samuel Wilson was a

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meatpacking plant owner who became a symbol of America’s honesty and hard work

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The US President during the War of 1812 was

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James Madison

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The act of sealing up an enemy’s sea port with your naval vessels is called a/an

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blockade

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John C. Calhoun of south Carolina and Henry Clay of Kentucky were leaders of the

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War Hawks

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The practice of impressment was

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Seizing Americans at sea and drafting them into the British navy

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(+ or o) in 1814 the British burned New Orleans and took control of the Mississippi River

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o

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Which of the following was not a result of the War of 1812

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The British stopped the practice of impressment

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Which American general ended the threat of Native American warfare in the South

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Andrew Jackson

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(+ or o) Andrew Jackson’s greatest victory in the Battle of New Orleans came after the war was over

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50
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What was the name of Washington’s plantation?

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Mount Vernon 

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