The American Yawp Ch.6

Question 1

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

Answer 1

Articles of Confederation

Question 2

Head of Shay’s Rebellion; he and several other angry farmers violently protested against debtor’s jail; eventually crushed; aided in the creation of constitution because land owners now wanted to preserve what was theirs from “mobocracy”

Answer 2

Daniel Shays

Question 3

“Father of the Constitution,” Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States.

Answer 3

James Madison

Question 4

American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence,the Articles of Confederation,the United States Constitution and proposed the Great Compromise (1721-1793)

Answer 4

Roger Sherman

Question 5

Author of Virginia’s Bill of Rights, was strong advocate that Constitution needed its own Bill of Rights and was worried it gave the President too much power.

Answer 5

James Wilson

Question 6

was an Anti-Federalist who strongly opposed the ratification of the Constitution, which led to the drafting of The Bill of Rights

Answer 6

George Mason

Question 7

1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.

Answer 7

Alexander Hamilton

Question 8

1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, negotiated with British for Washington

Answer 8

John Jay

Question 9

A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name “Publius” to defend the Constitution in detail.

Answer 9

Federalist Papers

Question 10

Supporters of the Constitution

Answer 10

Federalists

Question 11

People who opposed the Constitution

Answer 11

Anti-Federalists

Question 12

Formal approval, final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty

Answer 12

Ratification

Question 13

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

First 10 amendments to the Constitution

Answer 14

Bill of Rights

Question 15

an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

Answer 15

Thomas Jefferson

Question 16

America’s first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press “ought not to be restrained.”

Answer 16

John Adams

Question 17

The first national bank funded by the federal government and wealthy investors

Answer 17

Bank of the United States

Question 18

1794 protest against the government’s tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers

Answer 18

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 19

Treaty signed in 1794 between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory

Answer 19

Jay’s Treaty

Question 20

Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house

Answer 20

Great Compromise

Question 21

French diplomat who took his cause for the French Revolution directly to the American people and defied Washington in doing so.

Answer 21

Edmund Charles Genet

Question 22

An insult to the American delegation when they were supposed to be meeting French foreign minister, Talleyrand, but instead they were sent 3 officials Adams called “X,Y, and Z” that demanded $250,000 as a bribe to see Talleyrand.

Answer 22

XYZ Affair

Question 23

• undeclared war with France (1798-1800)

- Sparked by the XYZ Affair

Answer 23

Quazi War

Question 24

Series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants

Answer 24

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 25

Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional.

Answer 25

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Question 26

Separation of church and state; no religion is officially supported by the state/government; opposed tax-supported church

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Disestablishment

Question 27

Jefferson and Burr each received 73 votes in the Electoral College, so the House of Representatives had to decide the outcome. The House chose Jefferson as President and Burr as Vice President.

Answer 27

Election of 1800

Question 28

This document declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money.

Answer 28

Statute for Religious Freedom

Question 29

served as the 3rd Vice President of the United States. Member of the Republicans and President of the Senate during his Vice Presidency. He was defamed by the press, often by writings of Hamilton. Challenged Hamilton to a duel in 1804 and killed him.

Answer 29

Aaron Burr

Question 30

This case establishes the Supreme Court’s power of Judicial Review(1803)

Answer 30

Marbury v. Madison

Question 31

American jurist and politician who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1801-1835) and helped establish the practice of judicial review.

Answer 31

John Marshall