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Challenges to a New Nation

Authored by David Kleinstiver

History

8th Grade

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Challenges to a New Nation
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

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