Unit 6

Question 1

Who was the first President and Vice President under the Constitution

Answer 1

President George Washington and Vice President John Adams

Question 2

What city was the first capital of the United States?

Answer 2

New York City

Question 3

In what year did Washington first take the presidential oath of office?

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

What were the three executive departments?

Answer 4

The departments of State, War, and Treasury

Question 5

Who was the first Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Secretary of Treasury?

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Alexander Hamilton respectively

Question 6

What did Hamilton propose concerning a national financial system?

Answer 6

The creation of a national bank

Question 7

In what state did the Whiskey Rebellion take place and what was it about?

Answer 7

Pennsylvania. It was about farmers not wanting to pay the new whiskey tax

Question 8

In what state did the Battle of Fallen Timbers occur and what movement did it help?

Answer 8

Ohio. It helped western settlement

Question 9

What was the first foreign policy crisis faced by the Washington administration

Answer 9

How to respond to the French Revolution

Question 10

How did Washington respond to the war that began in Europe?

Answer 10

He issued a statement of neutrality

Question 11

What actions of the French ambassador Genet were inappropriate?

Answer 11

The fact that he went about America outfitting ships to do battle against France’s European enemies and trying to instigate attacks on Spanish-held territories

Question 12

What was the policy of impressment that the British followed on the high seas?

Answer 12

Sailors on American ships who were suspected of being British navy were taken prisoner and pressed into service on British ships

Question 13

What was the Jay Treaty?

Answer 13

A treaty with Great Britain regarding the policy of impressment and several other matters

Question 14

What was the Pinckney Treaty?

Answer 14

A treaty which ended Spanish claims in the South and guaranteed American access to New Orleans

Question 15

What did Hamilton and those who agreed with him want?

Answer 15

A strong central government that encouraged the development of industry and leadership by the elites

Question 15

What did Jefferson and those who agreed with him believe?

Answer 15

They believed that the individual citizen, especially the farmer, was the backbone of a successful economy and society

Question 16

What did the political differences between Hamilton and Jefferson lead to?

Answer 16

The formation of political parties (or factions, as they were called)

Question 17

Who were the presidential and vice presidential candidates in 1796?

Answer 17

Federalist John Adams and Thomas Pinckney, and Republican Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Question 18

Who was the second President and Vice President of the United States?

Answer 18

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Question 19

What did the incident of American envoys being insulted by representatives of the French foreign minister come to be called, and why?

Answer 19

The XYZ Affair, because John Adams didn’t call the three representatives by their names, but by X, Y, and Z

Question 20

What wise judgment did Adams show in handling relations with France?

Answer 20

He decided not to declare war with France and negotiated a new agreement with them

Question 21

Why did Congress enact the Alien Act and related laws?

Answer 21

Because they wanted to limit the potential influence of foreign nationals and to weaken the Republicans, who were widely supported by new immigrants

Question 22

What is the Sedition Act?

Answer 22

The act that outlawed false, scandalous, and malicious attacks on the government

Question 23

What was the purpose of most newspapers published at the time?

Answer 23

To promote one party or the other, not for providing an objective account of the news

Question 24

What did James Madison and Thomas Jefferson write in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts?

Answer 24

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which raised serious questions about the laws

Question 25

Who were the presidential and vice presidential candidates in 1800?

Answer 25

Federalist John Adams and Charles C. Pinckney and Republican Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Question 26

Who was the third President and Vice President of the United Sates?

Answer 26

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Question 27

What did the political differences between Adams and Jefferson destroy?

Answer 27

Their friendship

Question 28

Who was the first President to live in the White House?

Answer 28

John Adams

Question 29

What was the Judiciary Act of 1801?

Answer 29

A law that created several new judgeships and other positions such as marshals and justices of the peace. It was an attempt by the lame-duck Federalist Congress to control the Federal Judiciary

Question 30

Whom did Adams nominate to be Chief Justice?

Answer 30

John Marshall

Question 31

What was the U.S. population in 1790?

Answer 31

3.9 million people

Question 32

In 1790 half of the population was under what age?

Answer 32

Under the age of 16

Question 33

What were the next four states admitted to the Union after the original thirteen?

Answer 33

Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio

Question 34

What was the U.S. population in 1800?

Answer 34

5.3 million people

Question 35

What aspects of the Protestant Reformation influenced American religious practice?

Answer 35

The identity of the church, the relationship between the church and government, and the nature of an individual’s walk with God

Question 36

What aspect of the English religious experience influenced American religious practice?

Answer 36

It tolerated diversity in religion

Question 37

What were three results of the American Revolution on American religious practice?

Answer 37

People becoming religiously active, individual freedom, and diversity of distinctive American religious groups

Question 38

What Chief Justice was an active Episcopalian and later president of the American Bible Society?

Answer 38

John Jay

Question 39

What was a belief system that was growing in acceptance at the end of the eighteenth century?

Answer 39

Rationalistic religion, which was based on man’s reason and not on the revelation of God in Scripture

Question 40

What is the term given to the accepted national belief system of the United States?

Answer 40

Civil religion