Presidents through Foreign Policy (Monroe Doctrine) Test

Which of the following actions did John Adams take after the XYZ Affair?

• He refused to reopen peace talks with France

• He paid the money that the French demanded

• He requested that Congress declare war on France

• He asked Congress to expand the size of the navy fleet

Who helped start the federalist party?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

• Aaron Burr

• John Adams

What did the Sedition Act prohibit Americans from doing?

• write, print, utter, or publish false or critical words against the government

• Did not allow people to move west

• owning businesses without paying taxes

• running against another member of their own party

What was the Alien Act?

• Gave money to people to search for Aliens

• Gave the president the power to give citizenship to anyone

• Gave the president the power to remove foreign residents he decide were involved in treason or secret plots against the government

• Gave the president the power to remove any government official he wanted

The two candidates for president in 1800 whose intense campaigns were waged in newspaper editorials and letters were..

• John Marshall and Aaron Burr

• Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

• William Marbury and James Madison

• James Madison and Alexander Hamilton

The Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional is... 

• Federal judgeship

• judiciary act

• judicial review

• strict constructionist

The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from...

• France

• Spain

• Britain

• Canada

Assisting the explorers who traveled through the new territory to the West was a Native American woman named...

• Shoshone

• Louisiana

• Sacagawea

• Pocahontas

Thomas Jefferson considered all of the following important functions of government EXCEPT...

• Delivering the mail

• charging a tax on whiskey

• protecting the nation against foreign threats

• collecting custom duties

The men assigned to explore the new territory west of the Mississippi were...

• Lewis and Clark

• Madison and Marbury

• Adams and Jefferson

• Clark and Marbury