Unit 6: A New Nation

Question 1

First 5 Presidents

Answer 1

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe

Question 2

Lewis and Clark

Answer 2

two explorers sent by Jefferson to explore the northwestern United States territory

Question 3

political parties

Answer 3

an organization made to gain political power

Question 4

cabinet

Answer 4

a group of officials that head government departments and advise the President

Question 5

inauguration

Answer 5

Ceremony in which the President officially takes the oath of office

Question 6

precedent

Answer 6

an act or decision that sets an example for others to follow

Question 7

judiciary act

Answer 7

Created the structure of the Supreme Court and set up a system of district courts and circuit courts for the nation

Question 8

national debt

Answer 8

amount of money the national government owes others

Question 9

bond

Answer 9

certificate that promises to repay money loaned, plus interest, on a certain date

Question 10

Bank of the United States

Answer 10

bank set up in 1791 to hold government deposits, to issue paper money to pay government bills, and to make loans to farmers and businesses

Question 11

tariff

Answer 11

tax on foreign goods brought into the country

Question 12

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 12

A protest over a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United States

Question 13

foreign policy

Answer 13

actions that a nation takes in relation to other nations

Question 14

Jay’s Treaty

Answer 14

An agreement between Britain and the US that called for Britain to pay damages for seized American ships and to give up forts it still held in the West. In exchange, the US would repay debts owed to British merchants.

Question 15

laissez faire

Answer 15

idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs

Question 16

free market

Answer 16

Economic system in which individuals, rather than the government, decide what and how much to produce and sell

Question 17

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 17

establishes the Supreme Court’s power of Judicial Review

Question 18

Pinckney Treaty

Answer 18

Agreement with Spain that let Americans ship their goods down the Mississippi River and store them in New Orleans

Question 19

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 19

Vast territory between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains, purchased from France in 1803; doubled size of the US

Question 20

continental divide

Answer 20

mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of the continent

Question 21

Impressment

Answer 21

practice of forcing people into military service, such as British soldiers taking American sailors from their ships

Question 22

Embargo Act

Answer 22

an 1807 law that imposed a total ban on foreign trade

Question 23

Nonintercourse Act

Answer 23

an 1809 law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with all countries except Britain and France

Question 24

Treaty of Greenville

Answer 24

Treaty signed by some Native Americans in 1795, giving up land that would later become part of Ohio in exchange for $20,000 and a promise of more money if they kept the peace

Question 25

Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 25

battle over white settlement in Indiana Territory

Question 26

nationalism

Answer 26

devotion to one’s country

Question 27

Battle of Lake Erie

Answer 27

an American victory led by Oliver Perry over the British

Question 28

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 28

At the end of the War of 1812, a battle between British and American forces that ended in an American victory

Question 29

Hartford Convention

Answer 29

gathering of New England delegates during the War of 1812 to protest the war by threatening to secede from the Union

Question 30

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 30

peace treaty signed by Britain and the United States at the end of the War of 1812

Question 31

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 31

French emperor who sold the Lousiana territory to the United States