Launching the Nation

1798 laws that allowed the government to imprison or deport aliens and to prosecute its critics.

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Judicial Review

• Impressment

• Electoral College

a body of electors who represent the people's vote in choosing the president

• Bonds

• Alexander Hamilton

• Precedent

• Electoral College

an action or decision that later serves as an example

• Precedent

• Speculators

• National Debt

• George Washington

created three levels of federal courts and defined their powers

• Precedent

• Thomas Jefferson

• Speculators

• Judiciary Act of 1789

Who was the second president of the United States? 

• Alexander Hamilton 
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Jay 
• John Adams 

This is the official attitude that George Washington took in response to the war between France and Britain, despite the 1778 treaty with France.

• poor
• excited
• sectionalism
• neutrality

What do we call the groups that organize to help elect government officials and to influence government policies?

• political parties
• political action committees
• lobbyists
• Independents

means that the federal government can take reasonable actions that the constitution does not specifically forbid.

• Strict Construction

• Loose Construction

• Bonds

• National Debt

means that the federal government should do only what the Constitution specifically says it can do

• Bonds

• Bank of the United States

• Loose Construction

• Strict Construction

What almost led the United States to the brink of war with France? 

• Alien Act 
• XYZ Affair 
• Sedition Acts 
• Kentucky Resolution