AP History Ch. 9

Alexander Hamilton

Washington chose which of the following men to be his secretary of the treasury?

an expansion of military forces led to the total defeat of General St. Clair's army

When the U.S government's early policy toward the Indians in the Northwest Territory did not reap the anticipated results

New York City to Philadelphia

Before the federal government settled into its permanent into its permanent home in Washington D.C., the nation's capital had most recently been moved from

They advocated a strong centralized government

Which of the following statements characterized the Federalists in 1800?

a 25 percent excise a tax on whiskey

To meet the interest payments on the national debt under his consolidation ("assumption") plan, Alexander Hamilton convinced Congress to pass

Many Americans were angered by an official declaration of neutrality

Which of the following best describes American sentiment regarding the English-French struggle in 1793?

teaching virtuous sons

According to republican ideals of the late eighteenth century, women and mothers were most important in

first ten amendments to the Constitution, commonly called the Bill of Rights

In response to promises that had been made in order to obtain ratification of the Constitution, James Madison drew up the

withdrew from active counsel of the president due to the influence of the Hamiltonian cabinet

During President Adam's one term in office, Vice President Jefferson

nationalized the Pennsylvania militia and led the effort to put down the revolt

In response to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, President Washington

led to an increase in the number of commercial stagecoach companies

During the 1790s, improvements in overland transportation

oppose the Alien and Sedition Acts using state legislatures

Republicans used the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions to

such action could subordinate the states to federal power

Critics opposed the federal government assuming the states' old Revolutionary War debt because

Displace the Indians and clear the way for permanent American settlements in Ohio

Which of the following best describes the U.S. government's early policy toward Indians in the Northwest Territory?

the Treaty of Greenville

In 1794, General Anthony Wayne's defeat of the Indians at Fallen Timbers resulted in

during Washington's second term

The first signs of distinct rival U.S. political groups appeared

tariff recommended in the Report on Manufactures

Of the economic programs presented by Hamilton, the only one not approved by Congress was the

Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798

In an effort to muffle the heated opposition to President Adam's anti-French foreign policy

that the federal government assume the unpaid war debts of the states

To restore faith in the credit of the federal government, Hamilton proposed

liquor

Which of the following goods offered to the Indians under the Treaty of Greenville was the most detrimental to the tribes?

Hamilton's economic program and the Jay Treaty

Issues that, in the 1790s, divided the country while under Federalist presidencies included

harass French immigrants already in the United States and discourage others from coming

The basic intent of the two Alien Acts passed by Congress was to

They became fearful that the rebellion might spread to American shores

How did the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 affect white Americans?

sent three men to negotiate peace with France

In the fall of 1797, in order to avert a war with France, President Adams

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were authored by

protect and foster domestic manufacturing

The main purpose of the moderate tariff that Hamilton proposed in his Report on the Manufactures was to

three unnamed French agents sent by Talleyrand to meet with American commissioners

X, Y, and X were the code names for

infuse money into the economy and inspire citizens' confidence in the government

Alexander Hamilton publicly claimed that rolling the old certificates of debt into new government bonds would

preside over the Senate

As vice president, John Adams was not invited to cabinet meetings; his only official duty was to

America forming permanent alliances with foreign countries

In his farewell address, President Washington spoke for a "unified body politic" and against

corrected by passage of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804

In the election of 1796, a procedural flaw resulted in the election of political rivals as president and vice president; this flaw was

he seemed to personify the eighteenth-century ideal of the disinterested republican political leader

Washington was elected president unanimously and gained the admiration of many Americans primarily because

serious threat to federal leadership within the country

Alexander Hamilton viewed the Whiskey Rebellion as a(n)

Republican newspaper editors who freely published criticism of the Adams administration

The Sedition Act targeted mainly

the right to vote

Which of the following was significantly omitted from the Bill of Rights?

political parties

The Constitutions did not include or anticipate

market conditions and the invention of the cotton gin

American cotton production underwent a real boom in the last 1790s because of

Hamilton supported the commercial elite and admired the British

During the 1790s, a rift developed between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson partly because

the chartering of banks by Congress

Which of Hamilton's economic programs did Thomas Jefferson advise Washington was not permitted under the Constitution?

states have the right to judge the constitutionality of federal laws and can nullify laws that infringe on liberties as defined in the Bill of Rights

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions put forth the novel idea that

ended up being president and vice president

In the 1796 presidential election, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

President Washington agreed with Hamilton's interpretation of the Constitution and signed the bank into law in 1791

In response to Hamilton's arguments that the Constitution granted broad rights to regulate commerce, which would allow for the establishment of the Bank of the United States

he lost a significant part of his party's support

When President Adams arranged a negotiated end to the Quasi-War in 1799

party lines were drawn between Republicans and Federalists

In the election of 1800

remained largely unaltered from the norm

In the new republic, traditional gender relations

Congress repealed all prior treaties with France and launched the United States into an undeclared war with France called the Quasi-War

Following the XYZ affair,

He issued the Neutrality Proclamation

What was President Washington's first reaction to the war between England and France that began in 1793?

was a protest by grain farmers against the excise tax on whiskey

The Whiskey Rebellion

sympathetic to French republican ideals

In 1800, Republicans could be described as

party politics was not the most important thing in American democracy

Jefferson's inaugural address suggested that