APUSH Chapter 7

What effect did the Bill of Rights have?

• establishment of a clear formula for balancing state and federal power

• A guarantee of all men's right to vote for their political leaders

• An easing of Americans' fears of an oppressive national governement

• The Constitution became the nation's legal and political foundation

Alexander Hamilton's financial plan included which of the following items?

• federal government's assumption of state war debts

• The elimination of the U.S. national debt

• A progressive system of personal income taxes

• The eradication of paper currency

Hamilton conceded the following stipulation to get his financial plan through

• Raising the price of western lands sold by the government to settlers

• Agreeing to support Jefferson in the 1796 presidential election

• Supporting a high tariff on foreign cotton

• Proposing that the nation's new capitol be built in the Upper South

What issue let to the emergence of political parties in the mid 1790s

• Jay's Treaty

• Hamilton's financial plan

• Interstate trade

• Slavery

Thomas Jefferson's idea for the future included which option?

• Industrialized urban centers at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution

• Expansion of the institution of slavery to the West

• Western territories populated by independent yeoman farm families

• A rejection of scientific farming in favor of agricultural traditionalism

What caused trateshe Whiskey Rebellion?

• Farm foreclosures

• High interest rates

• an excise tax

• The Panic of 1793

Jay's Treaty of 1795

• upheld Americans' right to ship French goods on American ships

• It required the British to withdraw their troops from forts in the NW Territory

• It required British merchants to fully compensate Americans who had prewar claims.

• The treaty established the pro French direction of American foreign policy.

Why was Toussaint L'Ouverture a significant figure of the 1790s?

• became the first president of the new French Republic

• The leader negotiated with John Jay to create the terms of the Jay Treaty.

• He led black Haitians in their fight to seize control of Saint-Domingue.

• L'Ouverture solicited a loan and bribe from American diplomats in France.

What did the Federalists do when the Republicans criticized their policies?

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

• the XYZ Affair

• The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

• War with France

Which acts made it illegal to publish insults or malicious attacks against Congress or the president

• No Speak Act

• The Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts

• The Silence Act

• The Homestead Act