Early republic post assessment

Events & Acts:

President James Monroe's declaration in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization.

• Treaty of Alliance

• Embargo Act of 1807

• Monroe Doctrine

• Jay Treaty

A series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants.

• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Federal Judiciary Act 
• First Amendment Revocation
• All of these

Which of the following suggested that states could nullify, or overrule federal laws.

• The Kentucky & Virginia Resolution
• The North & South Carolina Resolution
• The Alien & Sedition Resolution
• The XYZ Affair Act

three French agents demanded a bribe from the U.S.:

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

• Alien Act

• Sedition Act

• XYZ Affair

The Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, were used for which of the following purposes?

• to expel Native Americans from U.S. territory

• to punish Democratic-Republican newspaper editors

• to keep the British from retaking northwestern forts

• to keep people patriotic during wartime

What did the Embargo Act do?

• Banned trade with only Great Britain

• Banned trade with only Great Britain and France

• Banned trade with all foreign countries

• Ended the act of impressment by the British

Which founding father is known as the founder of the Federalist Party?

• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washginton
• Alexander Hamilton
• Benjamin Franklin

Which founding father is known as the founder of the Democratic Republican Party?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Hamilton
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson

The Federalists and the Democratic Republicans emerged as separate political parties partly as a result of a disagreement over __.

• how the nation should develop economically

• whether to enforce the Monroe Doctrine

• how the nation should admit new states

• Whether to approve the Declaration of Independence

The first political parties in the U.S. were established in the 1790s because of differences between __.

• John Adams and Ben Franklin

• Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Paine

• George Washington and James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton