Chapter 8: "A New Nation"

A tradition

• Cabinet

• Precedent

• Tariff

A group of advisers to the president.

• Cabinet

• Precedent

• Tariff

The first president of the United States.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

Who was the first secretary of state?

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

Who was the first secretary of the treasury?

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

This document limits the powers of government and protects the rights of individual liberties.

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

The national debt was not a challenge of the early United States.

• True

• False

Hamilton proposed that the new government pay off debt owed to other countries and to American citizens.

• True

• False

A tax on imports.

• Impressment

• Tariff

A rebellion in western Pennsylvania over a special tax.

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Battle of Fallen Timbers

• St Clair Uprising