Practice Test Chapter 10 Flashcards
True or False
At the time of the constitution’s adoption, 95% of the American population lived east of the Appalachian Mts.
True
True or False
George Washington established the first federal cabinet as required by Article II of the Constitution.
False
True or False
The first ten amendments to the new constitution were passed to satisfy antifeds concerns that the constitution should guarantee individual liberties.
True
True or False
Alexander Hamilton’s policy of funding and assumption is designed to give wealthy the interests a large stake in the success of the new federal government
true
True or False
Hamilton believed that, within limits, a large federal debt would lend the strength to the national government.
true
True or False
Thomas Jefferson objectived to creating a bank of United States but agreed that if it was constitutional under the “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution.
False
True or False
The rebellion of Pennsylvania farmers against Hamilton’s whiskey excise tax was crushed by an army led by Pres. Washington himself.
true
True or False
The founding fathers saw political parties as a necessary and effective way of guaranteeing the right to dissent in a free republic
False
True or False
Both Hamilton Federalist and Jeffersonian Republicans were enthusiastic supporters of the French Revolution because it destroys a tyrannical monarchy.
False
True or False
Pres. Washington’s neutrality proclamation was based on the idea that America would soon have to throw its weight away into the European conflict in order to control the French expansion.
False
True or False
Despite British attacks on American interest on the frontier and the high seas from 1790 1794, Washington and Hamilton refused to engage in economic and military retaliation against Britain
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True or False
as a campaigner for the presidency John Adams displayed a common touch that made him extremely popular with ordinary Americans
False
True or False
The XYZ affair involved French government demands that American diplomats pay a bribe for the opportunity to try negotiating the French-American undeclared war.
true
True or False The legitimate purpose of the alien and sedition laws was to guarantee America’s security against the infiltration of agents and Saboteurs from Revolutionary France
False
True or False
Thomas Jefferson’s strong sympathy with ordinary Americans stemmed from his own experience of rising from a poverty-stricken youth.
False
The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution are commonly known as
The Bill of Rights
Secretary of the treasure Alexander Hamilton believed that the federal fiscal policies should be designed to favor
The wealthy
Hamilton raised the first revenues to finance the federal government through
A tax(tariff) on imports and an excise tax on items like whiskey.
Alexander Hamilton believed that the bank of the United States was constitutional because of
The “necessary and proper”clause of the Constitution.
The crushing the whiskey rebellion was significant because
It demonstrated that the new federal government had the power and the will to be challenges to its authority.
The American political parties arose out of the conflict over
Thomas Jefferson’s opposition to Hamilton’s creation of the bank of the united states.
Regarding the French Revolution, the Jeffersonian Republicans basically believed
That despite its excesses it was a necessary victory for the cause of the human liberty.
George Washington’s neutrality proclamation of 1793 indicated that the fundamental basis of American foreign policy would be
Isolationism and realism
Pres. John Adams won the enmity of his fellow Federalists by
Negotiating a peaceful settlement of the undeclared war with France
The sedition act of 1798 declared that
Anyway criticizing the president or other federal officials could be fined or imprisoned
Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky resolutions essentially declared that
Individual states have the right to know if I refuse to pay unconstitutional federal laws
Regarding business and foreign trade, the Federalist party fundamentally believed
That the federal government should strongly support private business and foreign trade but not interfere with it
Thomas Jefferson was regarded by wealthy Americans of this day as
A traitor to his class
Jefferson believed that universal voting suffrage was only justifiable if
The masses are properly informed through universal public education
Regarding foreign policy, the Federalists…
close relations with Britain with the Republicans were pro- French and pro-westward expansion
