Chapter 8 - Section 3 The First Political Parties

Which word means favoring one side of a political issue?

• caucus

• nullify

• partisan

• sedition

Which political party applied to the group of people that supported the policies of Washington's administration?

• Federalist

• Republican

• Democrat

• Libertarian

Which political party wanted to limit government's power. This party was led by Jefferson and Madison.

• Federalist

• Republicans

• Libertarians

• Whigs

Hamilton believed the federal government had ___________ that were not expressly forbidden in the Constitution. This ideas justified his starting a national bank.

• states' rights

• sedition

• implied powers

• ratification

In the presidential election of 1796 ________ received 71 electoral votes winning the election. He became the second president of the United States.

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

In this incident the French sent three agents to demand a bribe from America and asked for a loan for France from America.

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

• XYZ Affair

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Pinckney's Treaty

America was suspicious of aliens and questioned their loyalty to America so they passed the Alien and _____ Acts to make sure anyone criticizing or causing harm to the country would be punished.

• Sedition

• Caucus

• Nullify

• Faction

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions suggested that states could __________ federal laws considered unconstitutional.

• impress

• nullify

• sedition

• confirm

States rights limit the federal government to those powers assigned to it by the _____ and reserving to the states all other powers not expressly forbidden to them.

• president

• Constitution

• Republic

• treaty

Who finished the presidential election of 1796 in second place. At that time, the person with the second most votes became the vice president.

• John Adams

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson