Part 3

Question 1

How did the Revolution affect African Americans?

Answer 1

gain some but limited rights

Question 2

How did the Revolution affect Native Americans?

Answer 2

not even in peace treaty which causes future wars

Question 3

What were the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 3

The start of the U.S. government before the constitution that made each state like its own nation

Question 4

Why didn’t the Articles of Confederation work?

Answer 4

Federal government was too weak

Question 5

What was the ordinance of 1785?

Answer 5

dealt with size of towns

Question 6

What was the NorthWest Ordinance of 1787?

Answer 6

Process in which new states can enter the union

Question 7

When and where was the U.S. Constitution written?

Answer 7

Constitutional convention philadelphia 1787

Question 8

What did George Mason add to the Constitution?

Answer 8

The first 10 amendments or the bill of rights

Question 9

What was the Virginia Plan? Who wrote it?

Answer 9

bicameral legislature and representation based on population, james madison

Question 10

What was the NJ Plan? Who wrote it?

Answer 10

unicameral and Representation equal, william patterson

Question 11

What was the Connecticut Compromise?

Answer 11

Bicameral, Upper house (senate) - equal - 2 senators each state, Lower house (house of representatives) - based on population

Question 12

What was the 3/5th’s Compromise?

Answer 12

⅗ of slaves counted as part of the population for deciding how many representatives

Question 13

What was Shays’ Rebellion? What caused it?

Answer 13

An armed protest against higher taxes in Massachusetts

Question 14

Who was in George Washington’s Cabinet?

Answer 14

John adams, Thomas jefferson, Alexander hamilton, Henry knox, Edmund randolph

Question 15

What was the judiciary Act of 1789?

Answer 15

federal district court in each state from existing state courts

Question 16

What was Hamilton’s economic policy of “Permanent Debt”?

Answer 16

Stretch debt to avoid a huge tax increase and the government pays the interest out of tax revenue

Question 17

What was Hamilton’s economic policy regarding Industrialization?

Answer 17

To protect American manufacturers from taxes and to encourage new machinery

Question 18

What was Hamilton’s economic policy of Self-Sufficiency?

Answer 18

Make everything in the U.S. so we do not have to rely on other countries

Question 19

What was Hamilton’s economic policy regarding the Bank of the U.S.?

Answer 19

A central bank funded with $10 million that could print money and pay the debt

Question 20

Why did the U.S. capital move to Washington D.C.? Where was it before?

Answer 20

To appease pro-slavery people in the south , New York

Question 21

What was the Federalist Party?

Answer 21

The first political party; favored strong central government

Question 22

What was the first Republican Party like?

Answer 22

Anti slavery

Question 23

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 23

1st major crisis under constitution, a rebellion against whiskey tax

Question 24

How did the French Revolution of 1789 impact the U.S.?

Answer 24

The U.S. went neutral

Question 25

Who was John Jay?

Answer 25

One of the signers of the declaration; was sent to make a treaty with the UK to tell them to get forts out of america

Question 26

Who was Anthony Wayne?

Answer 26

General in charge of an army to force native americans to sign the treaty of greenville

Question 27

Who was Thomas Pickney?

Answer 27

Person sent to make a treaty with spain to tell them to get their fort out of america

Question 28

What warnings/advice did Washington give in his farewell address?

Answer 28

Condemned political parties and Stay out of europe’s war and politics

Question 29

What happened in the election of 1796?

Answer 29

Jefferson lost by 3 electoral votes and john Adams is president

Question 30

What was the X, Y, Z affair?

Answer 30

france tries to extort $1,000,000 to stop attacking supply ships

Question 31

What was the “quasi” war with France?

Answer 31

undeclared naval war where the american fleet protected supply ships

Question 32

What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

Answer 32

4 laws that applied restrictions to immigration and speech

Question 33

Who was Gabriel Prosser?

Answer 33

leader of an unsuccessful slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia in 1800

Question 34

What was “King Cotton”? How did it impact slavery?

Answer 34

The idea that cotton ruled the economy therefore more slaves were needed

Question 35

Who was Eli Whitney?

Answer 35

Inventor of the cotton gin

Question 36

What was the Cotton Engine (gin)? Why is it important?

Answer 36

a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber