STAAR Blitz Early Republic

The Democratic-Republicans are to Thomas Jefferson as the Federalists are to...

• Alexander Hamilton

• Patrick Henry

• John C Calhoun

• Jefferson Davis

Warning against political parties is to Washington's Farewell Address as warning to European countries over North America is to...

• Proclamation of 1763

• Monroe Doctrine

• Doctrine of Nullification

• States Rights

The Federalist Party is to a high tariff as the Democratic-Republican Party is to...

• Big Government

• Manifest Destiny

• States Rights

• Anaconda Plan

Thomas Jefferson is to the Louisiana Purchase as James Madison is to the

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory

• War with Mexico

• War of 1812

The first politial parties in the United States were established in the 1790's largely because of the political differences between...

• Jahn Adams and Benjamin Franklin

• Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Paine

• George Washington and James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

The court case Marbury vs. Madison is significant because...

• It limited the president to only serving two terms

• It established the U.S. Constitution as the replacement for the Articles of Confederation

• It established the principle of judicial review

• It defined slaves as property under the law

The Nullification Crisis was a struggle between states and the federal government over...

• The legality of slavery

• The right of states to overturn a federal law

• The ablility of southern states to build factories like the North

• Relocating Native Americans

Which of the following is associated with the Indian Removal Act?

• The Trail of Tears

• The War of 1812

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The National Bank

Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State for G. Washington

Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of the Treasury for G. Wahington

Disagreements between these two cabinet members led to...

• the creation of reservations

• a struggle to ratify the Bill of Rights

• the establishment of the first U.S. political parties

• a compromise over slavery in western territories

Speaker 1: A state has the right to overrule an act passed by Congress. After all, the national government is supposed to share power with the states.

Speaker 2: I believe that you are wrong. The states do share power with the national government, but the Constitution says the national government has supremacy.

What are the speakers discussing?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise