Jefferson And Hamilton

Question 1

What is loose construction?

Answer 1

The Constitution should be flexible to meet the needs of the country (elastic clause)

• favored by Hamilton and Adams

Question 2

What is strict construction?

Answer 2

Only what the Constitution clearly states

•Favored by Jefferson and Madison

Question 3

What is a precedent?

Answer 3

An earlier event or action that is used as an example

Question 4

What is the electoral college?

Answer 4

A body or group of people that represent the states of the United States

• The cast votes for the president and vice president

Question 5

What is the neutrality proclamation?

Answer 5

The US would not side with any European country in wartime

Question 6

What was Pinckney Treaty?

Answer 6

Spain gave the Americans the right to free we travel on the Mississippi River and use the port of New Orleans

Question 7

What was the XYZ affair?

Answer 7

President Adams describe the French terms to congress substituting the letters XY and Z for the names of the agents

Question 8

What is one issue in which Hamilton and Jefferson agreed on?

Answer 8

They agreed that the capital should be moved from New York to Philly then Washington DC

Question 9

What was the main reason why the United States needed a national bank?

Answer 9

To secure our national economy

Question 10

How did Hamilton change Southerners minds about his plan to pay off the federal debt?

Answer 10

He convinces northern congressman to move the capital to Philly and then later on Washington DC

Question 11

What was the process for electing the vice president in 1796?

Answer 11

Who ever come second in the presidential election becomes the vice president

Question 12

According to Hamilton, what was the economy of the United States depended on? What were Jeffersons thoughts?

Answer 12

• Jefferson believed in agriculture

* Hamilton believed in business, trade, and manufacturing

Question 13

Why did Thomas Jefferson believed the United States should support France and it’s conflict with Great Britain?

Answer 13

They helped us in our Revolutionary war

Question 14

What were the results of the treaty of Greenville?

Answer 14

Outline US-boundaries = gain territory from Ohio and Indiana

Question 15

How did the whiskey rebellion come to an end?

Answer 15

Most of the rebels ran away

Question 16

How was the election of 1796 different from Washingtons election?

Answer 16

For the first time there were multiple candidates

Question 17

What were the two contending political parties in the election of 1796?

Answer 17

Federalist and Democratic Republicans

Question 18

What personal freedoms were limited by the alien and sedition acts?

Answer 18

Freedom of speech, press, petition

• expressing yourself

Question 19

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions were created by what two men?

Answer 19

Madison and Jefferson

Question 20

Why did Jefferson oppose the creation of a national bank?

Answer 20

Is a strict constructionist. He doesn’t think the Constitution gives them the power to create a national bank

Question 21

Why did President Washington personally lead the army to bring down the whiskey rebellion?

Answer 21

A symbolic representation that Congress to do what they were going to do (charge taxes)

Question 22

Why did Alexander Hamilton help create the Federalist party?

Answer 22

A ⬆️ Federal power

B ⬇️ State power

Question 23

What was the cause of the whiskey rebellion?

Answer 23

Congress taxed US made whiskey

Question 24

What were the results of Pinkneys treaty?

Answer 24

• Florida borders change

* Port of New Orleans reopens