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chapter 8
Chapter 8 study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| precedents | traditions |
| first attorney general | Edmund Randolph |
| amount the government owes | national debt |
| tax imports | tariff |
| first secretary of war | Henry Knox |
| the nation´s first vice president was | John Adams |
| one of the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is | Freedom of speech |
| The first chief justice of the United States was | John Jay |
| The Judiciary Act of 1789 established what kind of legal system | federal court system |
| By the 1790´s the revenue from tariffs provided what percentage of the national government´s income? | 90 percent |
| Tax protest | whiskey rebellion |
| pro-French | Thomas Jefferson |
| to not take sides | neutrality |
| forced into British navy | impressment |
| Alexander Hamilton´s taxes led to rebellion in | western pennsylvania |
| Around 1794 the British began building a new fort in | Ohio |
| What treaty opened most of Ohio to white settlers? | the Treaty of Greenville |
| French and British warships were barred from American ports by the | proclamation of Neutrality |
| what did George Washington consider a grave danger to the new nation? | growth of political parties |
| political parties | factions |
| to legally overturn | nullify |
| French foreign minister | Charles de Talleyrand |
| federalist | Alexander Hamilton |
| Democratic-Republican | Thomas Jefferson |
| which political party stood for a strong federal government? | Federalist |
| Which party feared that a strong central government would endanger people´s liberties? | Repulican |
| The second president of the united states? | John Adams |
| which of the following proposed a challenge to the constitutional authority of the national government? | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
| What divided the Federalists and Hurt John Adams chance for reelection? | Treaty of France |