Chapter 6, Section 2

Thomas Jefferson helped Washington by working as Secretary of ________.

• State
• Economy
• Treasury
• Defense

To help build a strong national economy, what did Hamilton ask Congress to create?

• a national bank
• the stock market
• trade tariffs
• Washington, D.C.

Who managed the nation's money $$$ as the Department of Treasury in George Washington's cabinet?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Edmund Randolph
• Alexander Hamilton 
• Henry Knox

What was the job of the nation's Department of treasury?

• manages the nation's money
• looks after the nation's defense
• handles relations with other nations
• to dance with George Washington

What was Hamilton's Plan?

• to pay off the debts as a nation and force the states to help pay that debt
• to go against George Washington and not pay back money to Spain and France
• To negotiate treaties with Native Americans
• To play hide and seek with the goverment

What else did Alexander Hamilton help do for our nation?

• He established walmarts across the nation
• He created a national bank that issued a single form of money for the nation
• He created a shoe store for our nation
• All of these

Person who favors a strict construction of the Constitution would also do which of the following?

• interpret the Constitution narrowly
• take the same view as Thomas Jefferson
• grant the government only the powers stated in the Constitution
• all of the above

What does it mean to support "strict construction" of the Constitution?

• belief that the Constitution can't be changed once it's constructed, or made
• idea that the government can take reasonable actions that the Constitution doesn’t specifically forbid
• idea that federal government should only do what the Constitution says it can do
• belief that the Constitution's laws should be strict to make sure people make good choices

Alexander Hamilton believed in a flexible interpretation of the Constitution while Thomas Jefferson believed in a

• loose construction
• strict construction
• soft construction
• tight construction

“Loose construction” is best defined as the idea that the

• Constitution can be stretched when needed.
• the Constitution must be followed to the letter
• government can construct new buildings
• government cannot ever change the white house