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1
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Name position of 1)Thomas Jefferson 2)Alexander Hamilton 3)Henry Knox

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Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury
Henry Knox - Secretary of War

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2
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The WHAT Amendment might rightly be called the “states’ rights” amendment?

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Tenth

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3
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Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt…

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was beneficial because people to whom the gov’t owed money would work hard to make the nation a success

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Alexander Hamilton’s proposed bank of the US was…

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based on the “necessary and proper” or “elastic” clause in the Constitution

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The Bill of Rights was intended to protect BLANK against the potential tyranny of BLANK

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individual liberties…..a strong central gov’t

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The immediate cause of the undeclared war between US and France was…

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the XYZ Affair

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to…

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the Alien and Sedition Acts

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8
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Federalist advocated rule by….

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the “best” people

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According to the Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with….

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the Supreme Court

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When the French Rev. developed into war with GB, George Washington and the US gov’t…

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remained neutral

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The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to…

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silence and punish critics of the Federalists

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12
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Hamiltonian Federalists advocated…

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a strong central gov’t

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The Federalist-dominated Congress’s Alien Act was aimed at BLANK, whereas the Sedition Act was mostly aimed at BLANK

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recent immigrants….newspaper

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The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Penn. when the federal gov’t…

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levied an excise tax on whiskey

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In Jay’s Treaty, the British

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promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787…

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established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest Territory

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17
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The Land Ordinance of 1785 did NOT provide for….

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prohibiting slavery

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Match A. Britain B. France C. Spain D. Barbary Coast w/ its problems in US foreign relations.

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Britain - occupied a chain of trading forts in the Old Northwest
France - demanded repayment of wartime moles
Spain - controlled important trade routes from the interior of North America
Barbary Coast - threatened American commerce in the Mediterranean

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When the US entered the War of 1812, it was…

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militarily unprepared

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20
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At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was….

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incapable of being enforced by the US

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21
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The first state entirely west of the MS River to come from the Louisiana Territory was…

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Missouri

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22
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As a result of the Missouri Compromise…

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slavery was banned north of the 36-30 in the Louisiana Territory Purchase

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This was NOT a result of the Missouri Compromise.

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Sectionalism was reduced

24
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American’s campaign against Canada in the War of 1812 was…

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a complete failure

25
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One of the most important by-products of the War of 1812 was…

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a heightened spirit of nationalism

26
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Thomas Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” was remarkable in that it…

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marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties

27
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The legal precedent for judicial review was established when…

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the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional

28
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Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except…

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check the growth of the republican gov’t

29
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Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adam’s last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because…

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the appt. was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the gov’t

30
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The chief justice who carried out the ideas of Hamilton concerning a powerful federal gov’t was…

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John Marshall

31
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After killing Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr…

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engaged in a plot to separate the western part of the US from the east

32
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Thomas Jefferson’s first major foreign policy decision was to….

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send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean

33
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Most white southerners were…

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nonslaveowning substinenc farmers

34
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The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the 19th century was largely due to…

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natural reproduction

35
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Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as…

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politically sympathetic but socially segregationist

36
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By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the “black belt” located in the…

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Deep South states of GA, AL, MS, and LA

37
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Most slaves were raised….

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in stable 2-person households

38
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The Second Great Awakening WAS…

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larger than the First Great Awakening

39
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The Mormon religion originated in….

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The Burned-Over District of NY

40
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The original prophet of the Mormon religion was…

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Joseph Smith

41
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New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts with…

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prison and asylum reform

42
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The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s…

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stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many

43
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By the 1850s, the crusade for women’s rights was eclipsed by…

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abolitionism

44
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The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except…

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strictly monogamous marriages

45
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Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s American held…as one of their founding ideals

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cooperative social and economic practices

46
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In the early 19th century America…

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the urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate

47
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Ireland’s great export in the 1840s was…

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people

48
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The Irish immigrants to early 19th century America…

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were mostly Roman Catholics

49
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When the Irish flocked to the US in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because…

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they were too poor to move west and buy land

50
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German immigrants to the US…

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left their homeland to escape economic hardships and autocratic gov’t

51
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Immigrants to the US before 1860…

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helped to fuel economic expansion

52
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Eli Whitney invented the…

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cotton gin

53
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The American phase of the industrial rev. first blossomed…

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with textile mills

54
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The underlying basis for modern mass production was the…

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use of interchangeable parts

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