Test 2 - Quarter 2

Question 1

Precedent:

Answer 1

an example that becomes common practice

Question 2

Did people argue about what they should call the president?

Answer 2

👍

Question 3

How many justices are on the Supreme Court now?

Answer 3

9

Question 4

Who’s job was it to fix the national finances?

Answer 4

The Secretary of the Treasury/ hamilton

Question 5

Who creates the departments that make up the President’s cabinet?

Answer 5

Congress

Question 6

Who does the Constitution charge with deciding how many justices there will be in the Supreme Court?

Answer 6

Congress and senate

Question 7

Federal Judiciary Act of 1789:

Answer 7

set up 6 judges of the Supreme Court
1 Chief Justice
5 associate judges
also formed smaller, less powerful federal courts

Question 8

What is the purpose of the President’s cabinet?

Answer 8

To assist the President with the issues he faces

Question 9

As president and leader of this new nation, Washington’s actions will help to do what two things?

Answer 9

define the new nation
establish the interpret the power of government

Question 10

Who appoints people to lead the departments that make up the President’s cabinet?

Answer 10

The President

Question 11

What are the 4 original Presidential Cabinet positions?

Answer 11

The Secretaries of:
War
Treasury
State
and the Attorney General

Question 12

Who is chosen to be the Secretary of War?

Answer 12

Henry Knox

Question 13

What is the job of the Secretary of War?

Answer 13

To oversee the nation’s defenses

Question 14

Inaugurated

Answer 14

sworn in

Question 15

What is the date that Washington is inaugurated? Where?

Answer 15

April 30, 1789
Federal Hall, New York

Question 16

Who is John Jay and why is he important?

Answer 16

a chieff justice elected by washington

Question 17

After the Revolutionary War, the USA owed millions of dollars to what three countries?

Answer 17

netherlands , spain,france

Question 18

Did the government owe money to anyone other than European Countries? If so, who?

Answer 18

1) wealthy merchants
2) wealthy private citizens

Question 19

What was the national debt of the United State in 1789?

Answer 19

54 million

Question 20

What are the three reasons that the United States needed to repay their debts?

Answer 20

1) win respect of forign nations
2) win respect from own citizens
3) prove that were responsible with money

Question 21

What important person in Washington’s cabinet believed in a strong national government – that the National Government should be stronger than the State Governments?

Answer 21

hamilton

Question 22

Who was Washington’s vice?

Answer 22

John Adams

Question 23

. What is Hamilton’s three-part Financial Plan?

Answer 23

1) pay war debts
2) raise government revenues
3) create national bank

Question 24

Did the Constitution make mention of a Presidential Cabinet?

Answer 24

no

Question 25

Who did Hamilton want to pay the states debts?

Answer 25

he wants the south to pay the bills

Question 26

What important tax encourages the growth of American industry?

Answer 26

tarrifs

Question 27

What two foreign goods were the most highly taxed?

Answer 27

shoes and textiles ⊹₊⟡⋆

Question 28

How does Hamilton’s Financial Plan reveal the growing sectional differences in the United States? Why were Southern States unhappy with Hamilton’s plan? What must Hamilton do to get his plan passed? Who does he ask for help? What does he give up?

Answer 28

1) the southerners already paid there part
2) hamilton asks jefferson to help
3) when the southerners help pay they get to choose where the capital goes

Question 29

Why did the early American government favor taxes on foreign goods? What did these taxes insure? What did these taxes do to foreign goods? Why is this important?

Answer 29

1) insure steady income
2) made foreign goods expensive
3) americans buy american goods

Question 30

Hamilton’s financial plan would strengthen the National government, which worries what two people, who believe that the Constitution did not give the Government the power to make a bank?

Answer 30

1) thomas jefferson
2) james madison

Question 31

Strict Construction:

Answer 31

strict or narrow interpretation of constitution ✮⋆˙

Question 32

What are the three benefits of the US Government creating a National Bank?

Answer 32

1) government has safe place to keep money
2) they can loan money to buisnesses and gov
3) provides paper money

Question 33

How would someone with a “strict construction” view of the Constitution argue AGAINST the formation of a National Bank?

Answer 33

1) constitution never mentioned national bank
2) no power given to gov. to make bank
3) gov. only has power of constitution

Question 34

Loose Construction

Answer 34

broad interpretation of constitutionᯓ★

Question 35

How would someone with a “loose construction” view of the Constitution argue FOR the formation of a National Bank?

Answer 35

1) it is nesissary and proper to grow as a nation
2) constitution gave power to congress so that nation could grow

Question 36

What clause in the Constitution did Hamilton cite as evidence/proof that the US Government had the right to make a National Bank?

Answer 36

elastic clause ₊‧.°.⋆✮⋆.°.‧₊

Question 37

Hamilton argued that the National Bank was _______________________________________________________________________ for the government to carry out its duties. (the blank is a 3 word answer)

Answer 37

neccesary and proper‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

Question 38

Who did Jefferson and Hamilton make their arguments to?

Answer 38

Gorge washington

Question 39

In what year was the Bank of the United States set up?

Answer 39

1791˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗

Question 40

After the formation of the first Presidential cabinet, what did Washington start the habit of doing? Why is this
important?

Answer 40

he appointed people for it