EOC Spot Check - Adams & Foreign Affairs

Historians have regarded the American Revolution as being of worldwide importance because it

• marked the successful emergence of a new concept in government.

• involved almost every nation of Europe and North America.

• ended European imperialism in the Western Hemisphere.

• was won without foreign military assistance.AmerAmerican

"Resolved that the several states composing the US. of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the US ...., they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General government assumes undelegated powers, it’s acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
- Jefferson's Draft (Before 4 October, 1798) Kentucky Resolution
This excerpt of Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution introduces the theory of

• nullification

• implied powers

• interposition

• federalism

Answer explanation

Remember this slide?

When studying the Constitution and early United States History, the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 can be viewed as a violation of which of these?

• the First Amendment

• the Fifth Amendment

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

Answer explanation

Remember this from our notes?

In 1797, President John Adams sent Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall to Paris to negotiate an alliance between France and the United States. Charles Talleyrand, the French Foreign Minister, refused to receive the Americans. Instead, he designated three unofficial agents to negotiate with them. These agents demanded that America pay for alleged wrongs done to France, grant a large loan to finance the French war with Britain, and pay a bribe of about $240,000 to Talleyrand.

By which name is this diplomatic controversy better known?

• the XYZ Affair

• Jay's Treaty

• the Quasi-War

• the Maximillian Affair

Answer explanation

Remember this slide from our notes?

The Election of 1800 marked the decline of the ​ (a)   party and the emergence of the ​ (b)   party.

• Federalist
• Democratic-Republicans
• Loyalist
• Whig
• Populist

Answer explanation

Take a look at our previous slides to help us with the answer for this question.