Chapter 7.4

Question 1

Who where the federalists and democratic-republicans leaders

Answer 1

Fed:Hamilton
DR: Jefferson, Madison

Question 2

What was the perspective of what the power should be like for the federalists and democratic republicans

Answer 2

Fed: power in hands of one person
DR: feared a tyrant(single ruler)

Question 3

What did Hamilton want Washington to be

Answer 3

King

Question 4

For the federalists and democratic republicans how did each group interpret the constitution

Answer 4

Fed: loose& elastic clause(necessary and proper)
DR: strict

Question 5

For the federalists and democratic republicans what was their view on a national bank

Answer 5

Fed: wanted a national bank
DR: opposed a national bank

Question 6

For the federalists and democratic republicans what was their economy based on

Answer 6

Fed: manufacturing and shipping
DR: farming

Question 7

For the federalists and democratic republicans who where their supporters

Answer 7

Fed: lawyers, merchants, manufacturers, religious leaders
DR: farmers and tradespeople

Question 8

For the federalists and democratic republicans who were their supporters

Answer 8

Fed:British
DR: French

Question 9

In the election of 1796 who is running up against each other and what party are they in? Who wins?

Answer 9

Fed:Adams
DR: Jefferson

Adams wins by 3 electoral votes and Jefferson becomes the Vice President

Question 10

Adams was the first president to

Answer 10

Reside in the White House

Question 11

Why does France seize American ships

Answer 11

To keep them from trading with Britain since France and Britain are at war

Question 12

What 3 people are sent to France to by Adams to negotiate a resolution to avoid war with France

Answer 12

Charles Pinckney, Eldridge Gerry, and John Marshall

Question 13

Who refused to talk to the Americans for weeks

Answer 13

French foreign minister

Question 14

What did X,Y, and Z tell the Americans

Answer 14

That if they agreed to a $10 million loan and a $250,000 bribe, then the foreign minister will talk to them. The Americans refused and left France

Question 15

Results of the XYZ affair

Answer 15

Congress allows US ships to seize French ships and it also gave more money to prepare for a possible conflict with France

Question 16

Are antifederalists and federalists political parties

Answer 16

No

Question 17

Who is the French foreign minister sort of like?

Answer 17

Secretary of State

Deals with foreign stuff

Question 18

Who passes the alien and sedition acts

Answer 18

Congress made up of mostly federalists

Question 19

Who were the alien and sedition acts targeting

Answer 19

Immigrants who supported the democratic republicans

Question 20

What 3 things did the alien and sedition acts say

Answer 20

1. Increased how long you had to wait to be a citizen from 5 to 14 years
2. Allowed president to remove or arrest aliens who were being disloyal
3. Outlawed anything said or written that criticized it was harmful to the government

Question 21

How many people were charged with being disloyal in the alien and sedition acts

Answer 21

25 DR newspaper editors were charged

10 were convicted

Question 22

What 2 people wanted to fight the alien and sedition acts, so they made the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions

Answer 22

Jefferson and Madison

Question 23

What did the Kentucky and Virginia resolution call for

Answer 23

States rights

Question 24

In the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, who would have the final say

Answer 24

States

Question 25

Kentucky resolution

Answer 25

Jefferson said that states could not follow a federal law

Question 26

Virginia resolution

Answer 26

Madison said states could stand between its citizens and the federal government

Question 27

Significance of the alien and sedition acts

Answer 27

Resolutions declared the acts to be illegal. First time states challenged authority of the federal government. It would help end the Acts