Chapter 8 Flashcards
Name position of 1)Thomas Jefferson 2)Alexander Hamilton 3)Henry Knox
Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury
Henry Knox - Secretary of War
The WHAT Amendment might rightly be called the “states’ rights” amendment?
Tenth
Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt…
was beneficial because people to whom the gov’t owed money would work hard to make the nation a success
Alexander Hamilton’s proposed bank of the US was…
based on the “necessary and proper” or “elastic” clause in the Constitution
The Bill of Rights was intended to protect BLANK against the potential tyranny of BLANK
individual liberties…..a strong central gov’t
The immediate cause of the undeclared war between US and France was…
the XYZ Affair
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to…
the Alien and Sedition Acts
Federalist advocated rule by….
the “best” people
According to the Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with….
the Supreme Court
When the French Rev. developed into war with GB, George Washington and the US gov’t…
remained neutral
The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to…
silence and punish critics of the Federalists
Hamiltonian Federalists advocated…
a strong central gov’t
The Federalist-dominated Congress’s Alien Act was aimed at BLANK, whereas the Sedition Act was mostly aimed at BLANK
recent immigrants….newspaper
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Penn. when the federal gov’t…
levied an excise tax on whiskey
In Jay’s Treaty, the British
promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787…
established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest Territory
The Land Ordinance of 1785 did NOT provide for….
prohibiting slavery
Match A. Britain B. France C. Spain D. Barbary Coast w/ its problems in US foreign relations.
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
When the US entered the War of 1812, it was…
militarily unprepared
At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was….
incapable of being enforced by the US
The first state entirely west of the MS River to come from the Louisiana Territory was…
Missouri
As a result of the Missouri Compromise…
slavery was banned north of the 36-30 in the Louisiana Territory Purchase
This was NOT a result of the Missouri Compromise.
Sectionalism was reduced
American’s campaign against Canada in the War of 1812 was…
a complete failure
One of the most important by-products of the War of 1812 was…
a heightened spirit of nationalism
Thomas Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” was remarkable in that it…
marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties
The legal precedent for judicial review was established when…
the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except…
check the growth of the republican gov’t
Jefferson and his followers opposed John Adam’s last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because…
the appt. was an attempt by a defeated party to entrench itself in the gov’t
The chief justice who carried out the ideas of Hamilton concerning a powerful federal gov’t was…
John Marshall
After killing Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr…
engaged in a plot to separate the western part of the US from the east
Thomas Jefferson’s first major foreign policy decision was to….
send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean
Most white southerners were…
nonslaveowning substinenc farmers
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the 19th century was largely due to…
natural reproduction
Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as…
politically sympathetic but socially segregationist
By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the “black belt” located in the…
Deep South states of GA, AL, MS, and LA
Most slaves were raised….
in stable 2-person households
The Second Great Awakening WAS…
larger than the First Great Awakening
The Mormon religion originated in….
The Burned-Over District of NY
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was…
Joseph Smith
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts with…
prison and asylum reform
The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s…
stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many
By the 1850s, the crusade for women’s rights was eclipsed by…
abolitionism
The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except…
strictly monogamous marriages
Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s American held…as one of their founding ideals
cooperative social and economic practices
In the early 19th century America…
the urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate
Ireland’s great export in the 1840s was…
people
The Irish immigrants to early 19th century America…
were mostly Roman Catholics
When the Irish flocked to the US in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because…
they were too poor to move west and buy land
German immigrants to the US…
left their homeland to escape economic hardships and autocratic gov’t
Immigrants to the US before 1860…
helped to fuel economic expansion
Eli Whitney invented the…
cotton gin
The American phase of the industrial rev. first blossomed…
with textile mills
The underlying basis for modern mass production was the…
use of interchangeable parts
