Chapter 8 Test

Question 1

The formal ceremony starting a term

Answer 1

Inauguration

Question 2

A group of advisors

Answer 2

Cabinet

Question 3

A tax paid on the manufacture or sale of certain goods and services within a country

Answer 3

Excise Tax

Question 4

Alexander Hamilton’s party

Answer 4

Federalist Party

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson’s party

Answer 5

Democratic-Republic Party

Question 6

The act that created a working court system

Answer 6

Judiciary Act of 1789

Question 7

The bill that protected people’s rights

Answer 7

Bill of Rights

Question 8

The war hero that defeated a band of Indians and their allies

Answer 8

Anthony Wayne

Question 9

The place where Anthony Wayne defeated the band of Indians

Answer 9

Fallen Timbers

Question 10

The proclamation that tried to help America stay out of wars

Answer 10

Proclamation of Neutrality

Question 11

When Britain seized American ships and forced the crew to work for them

Answer 11

Impressment

Question 12

The treaty that did not settle the issues of Indian attacks or of neutral rights as sea

Answer 12

Jay Treaty

Question 13

The treaty that gave the US the right of deposit at New Orleans and made the thirty-first parallel of latitude the southern border of the United States.

Answer 13

Pinckney Treaty

Question 14

The man that said George Washington was, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

Answer 14

Henry Lee

Question 15

The second president

Answer 15

John Adams

Question 16

The name of the famous ship that was also known as “Old Ironside”

Answer 16

USS Constitution

Question 17

Fighting that occurred even though a full out war did not start

Answer 17

“Quasi War”

Question 18

The agreement that settled France’s actions against America

Answer 18

Convention of 1800

Question 19

The laws that claimed to help the country during the threat of war

Answer 19

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 20

The resolutions that claimed that the states have the right to interpose themselves between the national government and the people if the national government overreaches its powers

Answer 20

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Question 21

To declare void any federal law within a state’s boundaries

Answer 21

Nullification

Question 22

The man that was running for vice president that tried to change to president because of equal votes

Answer 22

Aaron Burr

Question 23

The chief justice from Virginia that Adams nominated

Answer 23

John Marshall

Question 24

Fifty-eight judges that John Adams appointed that had full-time positions late in the night

Answer 24

“Midnight Judges”

Question 25

The man that did not receive his commission before John Adams left office

Answer 25

William Marbury

Question 26

The secretary of state that refused to release the commission to William Marbury

Answer 26

James Madison

Question 27

When the Supreme Court reviews a federal law and declared it unconstitutional

Answer 27

Judicial Review