Chapter 9 Study Guide

Question 1

What amendments make up the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1

1st 10 amendments to the constitution

Question 2

What is the difference between a law and an amendment?

Answer 2

A law is a bill that gets passed and an amendment is a change to an existing law

Question 3

How does an amendment get proposed?

Answer 3

By 2/3 of congress or 2/3 of the states

Question 4

How does an amendment then get ratified?

Answer 4

By 3/4 of the state legislatures

Question 5

What five civil liberties does the 1st Amendment protect?

Answer 5

Guarantees freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press and petition the government

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Firearms

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Protects aganist unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause

Question 8

What Amendment is important for people accused of committing crimes?

Answer 8

5th Amendment

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Without due process of law

Question 10

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

Answer 10

6th Amendment

Question 11

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

Answer 11

From claiming the Bill of Rights are the only rights americans have

Question 12

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

Answer 12

States could be used as protection aganist the powers of a national government

Question 13

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

Answer 13

George Washington and John Adams

Question 14

What did each department of the Executive Branch deal with?

Answer 14

State Department~ Handle Relations w/ other nations
Treasury Department~ Deal w/ financial matters
War Department~ Deals w/ nations defense

Question 15

Who makes up the cabinet of the President?

Answer 15

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox

Question 16

Who was the first Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury?

Answer 16

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

Question 17

What job title did Alexander Hamilton hold?

Answer 17

Secretary of Treasury

Question 18

What act established a federal court system?

Answer 18

The Judiciary Act of 1789

Question 19

What could federal courts do to state laws if deemed necessary

Answer 19

Federal courts could over turn state laws

Question 20

Who was John Jay?

Answer 20

1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Question 21

What is a national debt?

Answer 21

The amount the government owed

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Proposed a plan that would have the federal government take care of the states debts from the war

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The southern states because they owed less than the northern states and would have to pay more than their fair share to compensate

Question 24

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

Answer 24

In exchange for the US capital being moved to the south, Washington DC

Question 25

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

Answer 25

It fell within the intent of the constitution

Question 26

What is a tariff?

Answer 26

Tax on imported goods

Question 27

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 27

A civil uprising aganist the taxing power of the federal government

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Politicial Parties Began to Form and He Thought They Would Divide the Government

Question 29

What are 3 aspects of the Federalist Party?

Answer 29

Favored a strong federal government, rule by wealthy, loose interpretation of the constitution

Question 30

What are 4 aspects of the Democratic-Republican Party?

Answer 30

State banks, state governments, rule by the people, strict interpretation of the constitution

Question 31

How did Washington feel about political parties?

Answer 31

He was aganist it

Question 32

What is favoring one side in a political decision?

Answer 32

Partisan

Question 33

Before the Election of 1796, what was held for the first time to determine Presidential candidates?

Answer 33

Caucuses

Question 34

What was the crisis with France involving three agents that tried to get money from America?

Answer 34

The XYZ Affair

Question 35

Why were three acts created after the XYZ Affair?

Answer 35

To protect the security of the nation and slow immigration

Question 36

What was the Naturalization Act?

Answer 36

Required aliens to live in the US for 14 years before being able to apply for citizenship

Question 37

What were the Alien Acts?

Answer 37

Allowed president to deport aliens

Question 38

What was the Sedition Act?

Answer 38

A crime to speak or write false

Question 39

What Amendment did the Sedition Act contradict?

Answer 39

1st Amendment

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Bill of Rights