Social Studies #2

Question 1

State Department

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson

Question 2

Treasury Department

Answer 2

Alexander Hamilton

Question 3

War Department

Answer 3

Henry Knox

Question 4

Caucuses

Answer 4

meetings held by political parties

Question 5

George Washington

Answer 5

First president/ Did not want to go to war wanted to stay neutral

Question 6

Federalists

Answer 6

British alliance,protective tariffs

Question 7

Democratic-Republicans

Answer 7

strict interpretation of the Constitution, French alliance, free trade

Question 8

John Adams

Answer 8

became the U.S. first vice president and the second president

Question 9

Sedition Act

Answer 9

made it illegal to criticize and talk badly about the government

Question 10

Naturalization Act

Answer 10

the law that made it difficult for white aliens to become a citizen

Question 11

Alien

Answer 11

immigrants living in the country who are not citizen

Question 12

Judiciary Act of 1789

Answer 12

law where congress established a court system

Question 13

Bill of Rights

Answer 13

first 10 amendments added to the Constitution

Question 14

National Debt

Answer 14

the amount of money the nation’s government owes

Question 15

Jays’ Treaty

Answer 15

John Jay signed the treaty between Great Britain and the U.S. stating that if all British troops withdraw from American land, Americans can trade with British Colonies in the Caribbean

Question 16

Impressment

Answer 16

British stopped American merchant ships and forced them into the British navy

Question 17

Speculators

Answer 17

bought bonds from people for less than their value

Question 18

Treaty of Greenville

Answer 18

treaty where Native Americans agreed to surrender most of their land in Ohio

Question 19

XYZ affair

Answer 19

The French foreign minister refused to meet with the U. S and sent 3 agents who demanded a bribe

Question 20

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 20

involved backcountry farmers, who resisted when federal officers tried to collect a tax on whiskey. When they staged an armed rebellion, George Washington sent an army. This determined how far people could go in protesting the laws of the new nation. Citizens should peacefully protest laws they don’t like.