This is something done or said to set an example for others to follow.
What is a precedent?
(Part II, #3)
100
These are precedents that Washington set as the first president of the United States.
What is the presidential title ("your excellency" OR "Mr. President"); establishing a cabinet; 2-term limit of service; etc.
(Part III, #2)
100
True OR False: John Adams did NOT uphold Washington's neutrality policy?
What is False; Adams did NOT go to war with France, despite persistent pressure from the public and his own party?
(Part III, #10)
100
This is a group of advisers to the president.
What is the cabinet?
(Part II, #2)
200
This political party believed in a powerful, strong central government.
What is the Federalist Party?
(Part I)
200
This is the act of kidnapping and forcing someone into military service.
What is impressment?
(Part II, #4)
200
These are the members of Washington's cabinet AND their respective positions.
Who are:
Thomas Jefferson--Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton--Secretary of the Treasury
Edmund Randolph--Attorney General
Henry Knox--Secretary of War
(Part III, #1)
200
These are four laws that were passed during John Adams' administration in the aftermath of the XYZ Affair to discourage attacks on government and immigration.
What were the Alien & Sedition Acts?
(Part III, #11)
200
True OR False: Madison and Jefferson opposed Hamilton's plan to create a national bank because the Constitution did NOT explicitly give Congress the power to create such an institution?
What is TRUE?
(Part III, #4)
300
This political party believed that power should be vested mainly in the state governments, NOT the central/federal government.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
(Part I)
300
These are four laws that were passed after the infamous XYZ Affair. They limited people's right to criticize the government AND allowed for the imprisonment or deportation of immigrants considered "dangerous."
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
(Part II, #7)
300
This is the violent protest against the the unpopular whiskey tax. Rebels formed their own militia and began burning down the burning down the city of Pittsburgh. Washington called in federal troops to suppress the rebels.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
(Part III, #5)
300
This was the official proclamation, issued by Washington, that prohibited Americans from fighting in the war between Britain and France.
What was the Proclamation of Neutrality?
(Part II, #1)
300
This political party supported the creation of a national/federal bank.
What is the Federalist Party?
(Part I)
400
This political party believed in implied powers and therefore, a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Federalist Party?
(Part I)
400
This terms means "to legally overturn."
What is nullify?
(Part II, #8)
400
This is the official agreement that ended the Northwest Indian Wars. According to its terms, the natives had to give up most of the Ohio Territory.
What was the Treaty of Greenville?
(Part III, #7)
400
This is how Washington attempted to put an end to the impressment of U.S. sailors.
What is by sending Chief Justice John Jay to Britain to negotiate a treaty?
According to the terms of Jay's Treaty, the British had to retreat from American soil.
(Part III, #8)
400
He expressed concern that political parties were a threat to the ability of people in government to work together.
Who was George Washington?
(Part III, #9)
500
This political party thought that a national bank would serve the interests of the wealthy only and because of this, they did NOT want it to be created.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
(Part I)
500
He was a French diplomat who was sent to the United States during the war between France and Britain to ask American volunteers to help France with attacking British ships.
Who was Edmond Genet?
(Part II, #6)
500
This is why conflict developed between Native American tribes and U.S. settlers in the 1790s.
What is because U.S. settlers were moving west of the Appalachian Mountains, onto lands that had been promised to the Native Americans?
(Part III, #6)
500
These were resolutions passed by the Virginia and Kentucky legislatures that nullified the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
(Part III, #12)
500
This is how Alexander Hamilton planned to tackle the young nation's substantial national debt.
What is by creating a national bank; by imposing high tariffs on imports to raise money and eliminate competition; AND by paying back bonds that were issued during the Revolution at full value?
(Part III, #3)