Tax on this alcohol lead to a rebellion in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1794.
What is whiskey?
100
Established because the Anti-federalists thought the Constitution failed to provide guarantees of individual rights such as freedom of religion and trial by jury.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
Britain promised to evacuate the chain of posts on U.S. soil
and agreed to pay damages for the seizure of American ships, while America agreed to pay debts still owed to British merchants on pre-Revolutionary accounts under this treaty named after the Chief Justice.
What is Jay's Treaty?
100
The Federalist who won the election of 1796 receiving 71 Electoral votes just ahead on Jefferson's 68.
Who is John Adams?
200
Washington strongly advised the avoidance of "permanent alliances" in this 1796 address to the nation when he retired.
What is his Farewell Address?
200
As part of his economic plan, Hamilton suggested this be created to print currency.
What is a mint?
200
This amendment reserves all rights not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the federal Constitution to the states.
What is the tenth?
200
This three-letter affair lead to war hysteria when Americans became outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
Resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that criticized the Alien and Sedition Acts and asserted the rights of states to declare federal law null and void within a state.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
300
The first included Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
What is the cabinet?
300
As the capstone for his financial system, Hamilton proposed this, to be modeled after England's.
What is a bank?
300
Hamilton used this to counter Jefferson’s argument that the Bank of the U.S. was unconstitutional, citing it as "necessary and proper"
What is the elastic clause?
300
Washington issued this in 1793, proclaiming official neutrality in the war between England and France.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation?
300
The First Party System of the United States featured the Federalists and this party, also called the Anti-Federalists.
What is Democratic-Republican?
400
Founder of the U.S. economic system and the Federalist Party, he could not serve as president because he was born in the West Indies.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
400
A series of acts passed by Congress in 1798 that made it harder for new immigrants to vote and made it a crime to criticize the president or Congress.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
A system in which each state selects presidential electors according to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress by whatever method it prefers, and these electors then select the president.
What is the Electoral College?
400
French dictator nicknamed "Little Corporal" who worked out a peace agreement with America in order to focus on expanding his empire in Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
Recently said in the White House Rose Garden about the 2016 presidential campaign, "While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent.”
Who Joe Biden?
500
It does not mention a cabinet, it merely states that the president “may require” written opinions of the heads of the executive-branch departments.
What is the Constitution?
500
In addition to domestic excise taxes, Hamilton planned on paying the interest on the huge national debt through these, which depended on foreign trade.
What are tariffs?
500
A core aspect of the Constitution that by which different parts of the new national government would have their authority always limited by other parts.
What is separation of powers?
500
Also called the Franco-American War, this series of war-like events is named after a word meaning "resembling" or "having some, but not all of the features of."
What is the Quasi War?
500
A system of government in which power is clearly divided between state governments and the national - or federal - government.