Chapter 9

Question 0

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with?
​State Department
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​Treasury Department

​War Department

Answer 0

Relations with other nations, money, and nation defenses

Question 1

Who were the first President and Vice President in American history?

Answer 1

George Washington and John Adams

Question 2

Who makes up the cabinet of the President?

Answer 2

Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Attonery General

Question 3

Who was the first Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

Question 4

What job title did Alexander Hamilton hold?

Answer 4

Sec. Of State

Question 5

What act established a federal court system?

Answer 5

The Judiciary Act

Question 6

What could federal courts do to state laws if deemed necessary?

Answer 6

Overturn state laws

Question 7

Who was John Jay?

Answer 7

1st Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Question 8

What is a national debt?

Answer 8

Amount of money gov’t owes

Question 9

What did Alexander Hamilton want to do with state debts after the war?

Answer 9

He wanted to take all the debts of the states and combine them to one big national debt

Question 10

What area in America was against his plan and why did they feel this way?

Answer 10

South and because they owed less than what they were having to pay

Question 11

Why did the South agree to accept Hamilton’s plan to lessen the national debt?

Answer 11

Because the capital was moved to Virginia

Question 12

Why did Hamilton feel that it was ok for him to create a national bank?

Answer 12

It was in the Constitution

Question 13

What is a tariff?

Answer 13

A tax on American goods

Question 14

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 14

Civil uprising against the taxing power of the fed. gov’t

Question 15

Why did Washington not want to run for a third term to the Presidency?

Answer 15

He didn’t want to be like the King of England

Question 16

What limits the power of the gov’t and protects the rights of the individual?

Answer 16

Bill of Rights

Question 17

What amendments make up the Bill of Rights?

Answer 17

The first 10 amendments

Question 18

What five civil liberties does the 1st Amendment protect?

Answer 18

Speech, petition, press, assembly, religion

Question 19

What does the 2nd Amendment give you the right to own?

Answer 19

A firearm

Question 20

What does the 4th Amendment protect you from? (Placed as a result of the Sugar Act)

Answer 20

Unreasonable searcher and seizures without probable cause

Question 21

What Amendment is important for people accused of committing crimes?

Answer 21

The right to not give self incriminating evidence

Question 22

According to the 5th Amendment, natural rights cannot be taken away without what?

Answer 22

A probable cause

Question 23

What amendment gives you the right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury?

Answer 23

6th

Question 24

What does the 9th Amendment keep the government from doing?

Answer 24

Claiming the Bill of Rights are the only rights Americans have

Question 25

What was given power in the 10th Amendment for protection?

Answer 25

States could be used as protection against the national gov’t

Question 26

What are 3 aspects of the Federalist Party?

Answer 26

Strong, wealthy, loose interpretation of Constitution

Question 27

What are 4 aspects of the Democratic-Republican Party?

Answer 27

States banks, states gov’t, strict interpretation of Constitution, and ruled by the people