History Exam

Question 0

Who has four year terms?

Answer 0

President

Question 1

Shared powers between federal and state governments:

Answer 1

1) set taxes

2) maintain courts and prisons

Question 2

Number of representatives each state gets based on population

Answer 2

House of Representatives

Question 3

Who has two representatives per state

Answer 3

Senate

Question 4

The first 10 amendments

Answer 4

Bill of Rights

Question 5

A rule that the law must be fairly applied

Answer 5

Due process

Question 6

Makes laws; includes congress

Answer 6

legislative branch

Question 7

To formally accuse

Answer 7

Indict

Question 8

Enforces the laws and is headed by the president

Answer 8

Executive branch

Question 9

Role is as a person cannot be tried for the same crime more than once

Answer 9

Double Jeopardy

Question 10

Vote to bring charges of serious crimes against a president

Answer 10

Impeach

Question 11

To cancel

Answer 11

Veto

Question 12

Interprets the laws, consist of Supreme Court and other federal courts

Answer 12

Judicial branch

Question 13

People to collect money for candidates who support certain issues

Answer 13

Political action committees

Question 14

The date the first president was sworn in on

Answer 14

April 30, 1789

Question 15

Head of Department of State

Answer 15

Thomas Jefferson

Question 16

First president

Answer 16

George Washington

Question 17

First vice president

Answer 17

John Adams

Question 18

View that the federal government can take reasonable actions of the Constitution does not specifically forbid.

Answer 18

Loose construction

Question 19

First Chief Justice

Answer 19

John Jay

Question 20

An office that handles relationships between the US and other countries it

Answer 20

Department of State

Question 21

A formal statement of the US would not take sides any European countries who were at war

Answer 21

Neutrality proclamation

Question 22

The person whose job was to advise the government on legal matters

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Atty. Gen.

Question 23

Who is the attorney general

Answer 23

Edmund Randolph

Question 24

Head of Treasury Department

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Alexander Hamilton

Question 25

Three French agent said that the minister would discuss the treaty only if Americans pay the $250,000 bribe and gave a $12 million loan

Answer 25

XYZ affair

Question 26

It made separate ballots to be marked for president vice president

Answer 26

12 amendment

Question 27

Practice of forcing people to serve in the army

Answer 27

Impressed

Question 28

Power of the court to declare a law unconstitutional

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Judicial review

Question 29

Stated merchants could trade with any country but Great Britain and France

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Nonintercourse act

Question 30

15th state

Answer 30

Kentucky

Question 31

16th State

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Tennessee

Question 32

Henry Clay and__wanted war with the British to gain more land they were called Warhawks.

Answer 32

John C Calhoun

Question 33

17 state

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Ohio

Question 34

He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner

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Francis Scott Key

Question 35

It gave the US and Spain equal rights to the Mississippi River

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Pinckney's treaty

Question 36

It protested the government war policy

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Hartford convention

Question 37

The__purchase doubled the size of the US

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Louisiana

Question 38

Medic Meriwether Lewis and__ were sent to explore the west in 1804

Answer 38

William Clark

Question 39

It limited the US and British naval power on Great Lakes

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Rush bagot agreement

Question 40

Gave the US fishing rights of parts of Newfoundland and Labrador coast and it also so I want to go to between US and Canada. Both countries agreed to occupy the Pacific Northwest.

Answer 40

Treaty of 1818

Question 41

5th Pres.

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James Monroe

Question 42

Wrote about characters who lived on the frontier

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James Fennimore Cooper

Question 43

In prerevolution America architect small the designs on the style used in __.

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Great Britain

Question 44

Was called the librator for his leadership role in many of the Latin American battles

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Simon Bolivar

Question 45

After the revolution Thomas Jefferson said Americans should base their building designs on those of ancient Greeks and__

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Roman

Question 46

Sense of pride and devotion to a nation

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Nationalism

Question 47

First state to set up a board of education

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Massachusetts

Question 48

Known as great compromiser

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Henry Clay

Question 49

A series of measures intended to make the US economicly economically self-sufficient

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American system

Question 50

In 1818 Monroe sent general__to stop raids by seminole Indians

Answer 50

Andrew Jackson

Question 51

First road built by the federal government

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Cumberland Road