Challenges to a New Nation

How did Alexander Hamilton deal with the nation's financial problems?

• He asked the states to help pay off their own war debts.

• He asked Congress to put a tax on imported foreign goods.

• He tried to borrow money from foreign countries.

• He decided to not repay the loans that other nations had made to the United States.

How did Hamilton's plan make the national government more powerful?

• A national bank issued currency and made loans to private businesses.

• The states had to depend on the national government to repay the money they owed from the Revolution.

• People who had made loans to their state during the war would support the national government because it was repaying those loans.

• All of the answers are true.

The difference between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson was that…

• Hamilton believed the Constitution gave the national government more power than Jefferson believed it did not.

• Hamilton sought the support of the rich upper class while Jefferson believed in the common people.

• Hamilton favored Great Britain while Jefferson supported France.

• All of the answers are true.

Which of the following was a domestic issue (inside the country) and not a foreign issue (outside the country) that President Washington faced?

• The Spanish threatened to close the port of New Orleans to American shipping.

• The British stirred up trouble between Native Americans and white settlers in the Northwest Territory.

• Farmers of western Pennsylvania rose up against the government in the Whiskey Rebellion.

• Washington attempted to keep the United States neutral in the war between Britain and France.

Which of the following shows how the U.S. saw itself as superior to Native Americans?

• Washington sent two untrained and poorly led armies to fight the Native Americans.

• Washington created a treaty to keep Americans off Native American Land.

• Washington sent an extremely powerful army after the Native Americans.

• Washington wanted to work with the Native Americans.

To solve the challenges the new nation faced, President Washington depended on

• members of his party in the House of Representatives.

• the advice of the United States Senate.

• the advice of his cabinet.

• his Secretary of State and Revolutionary War aide Thomas Jefferson.

Why did Alexander Hamilton believe it was important to pay the nation's debts?

• because nations that had made loans to the United States were threatening war if the loans were not

  repaid

• because other countries would not do business with the United States unless it paid its debts

• because paying the debts would make the nation stronger

• All of the answers are reasons for Hamilton's beliefs.

Which events resulted from attempts to secure American rights to travel and trade without interference from other nations?

• Jay's Treaty

• Pinckney's Treaty

• XYZ Affair

• all of the answers are true

Why did Washington send 13,000 troops against the farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion?

• because there were thousands of heavily-armed farmers in revolt

• because Pennsylvania's governor had asked that a large army be sent

• because he wanted to show that the national government was strong

• All of the above were reasons for Washington's action.

A person who favors a loose construction of the Constitution

• would be taking the same view as Thomas Jefferson.

• would likely read the Constitution word for word, and favor a limited national government.

• would grant the government only powers stated in the Constitution.

• would likely see the Constitution more as a guideline, and favor a strong national government.