Practice Test Chapter 10

Question 1

True or False

At the time of the constitution’s adoption, 95% of the American population lived east of the Appalachian Mts.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False

George Washington established the first federal cabinet as required by Article II of the Constitution.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or False
The first ten amendments to the new constitution were passed to satisfy antifeds concerns that the constitution should guarantee individual liberties.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Answer 4

true

Question 5

True or False

Hamilton believed that, within limits, a large federal debt would lend the strength to the national government.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False
The rebellion of Pennsylvania farmers against Hamilton’s whiskey excise tax was crushed by an army led by Pres. Washington himself.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

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

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False
Both Hamilton Federalist and Jeffersonian Republicans were enthusiastic supporters of the French Revolution because it destroys a tyrannical monarchy.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

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

Answer 11

true

Question 12

True or False
as a campaigner for the presidency John Adams displayed a common touch that made him extremely popular with ordinary Americans

Answer 12

False

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

true

Question 14

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

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False
Thomas Jefferson’s strong sympathy with ordinary Americans stemmed from his own experience of rising from a poverty-stricken youth.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution are commonly known as

Answer 16

The Bill of Rights

Question 17

Secretary of the treasure Alexander Hamilton believed that the federal fiscal policies should be designed to favor

Answer 17

The wealthy

Question 18

Hamilton raised the first revenues to finance the federal government through

Answer 18

A tax(tariff) on imports and an excise tax on items like whiskey.

Question 19

Alexander Hamilton believed that the bank of the United States was constitutional because of

Answer 19

The “necessary and proper”clause of the Constitution.

Question 20

The crushing the whiskey rebellion was significant because

Answer 20

It demonstrated that the new federal government had the power and the will to be challenges to its authority.

Question 21

The American political parties arose out of the conflict over

Answer 21

Thomas Jefferson’s opposition to Hamilton’s creation of the bank of the united states.

Question 22

Regarding the French Revolution, the Jeffersonian Republicans basically believed

Answer 22

That despite its excesses it was a necessary victory for the cause of the human liberty.

Question 23

George Washington’s neutrality proclamation of 1793 indicated that the fundamental basis of American foreign policy would be

Answer 23

Isolationism and realism

Question 24

Pres. John Adams won the enmity of his fellow Federalists by

Answer 24

Negotiating a peaceful settlement of the undeclared war with France

Question 25

The sedition act of 1798 declared that

Answer 25

Anyway criticizing the president or other federal officials could be fined or imprisoned

Question 26

Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky resolutions essentially declared that

Answer 26

Individual states have the right to know if I refuse to pay unconstitutional federal laws

Question 27

Regarding business and foreign trade, the Federalist party fundamentally believed

Answer 27

That the federal government should strongly support private business and foreign trade but not interfere with it

Question 28

Thomas Jefferson was regarded by wealthy Americans of this day as

Answer 28

A traitor to his class

Question 29

Jefferson believed that universal voting suffrage was only justifiable if

Answer 29

The masses are properly informed through universal public education

Question 30

Regarding foreign policy, the Federalists…

Answer 30

close relations with Britain with the Republicans were pro- French and pro-westward expansion