Chapter 8 Section 1

precedents

• national debt

• tariff

• traditions

• Henry Knox

• Edmund Randolph

first attorney general

• national debt

• tariff

• traditions

• Henry Knox

• Edmund Randolph

amount the government owes

• national debt

• tariff

• traditions

• Henry Knox

• Edmund Randolph

tax on imports

• national debt

• tariff

• traditions

• Henry Knox

• Edmund Randolph

first secretary of war

• national debt

• tariff

• traditions

• Henry Knox

• Edmund Randolph

The nation's first vice president was _______.

• George Washington.

• John Adams.

• Samuel Adams.

• Benjamin Franklin.

One of the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is ________.

• the right to ban the press.

• the right to refuse taxes.

• freedom of speech.

• the right to own a home.

The first chief justice of the United States was __________.

• John Adams.

• Alexander Hamilton.

• George Washington.

• John Jay.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 established what kind of legal system?

• Congressional law

• international court system

• federal court system

• state court system

By the 1790's the revenue from tariffs provided what percentage of the national government's income?

• 90 percent

• 50 percent

• 100 percent

• 10 percent