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Joe Schmoe
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100

This man sold Thomas Jefferson the Louisiana Territory

Napoleon

100

Joe Schmoe says this political party of anti-Federalists will protect him from Federalist taxes

The Democratic Republicans

100

This weak document gave no power at all to the federal government and would later be replaced

The Articles of Confederation

100

The federal government was given the power to coin money under what document?

The Constitution

100

This man was the second President 

John Adams 

200

This large land acquisition doubled the size of the United States in 1803

The Louisiana Purchase

200

Joe Schmoe took his gun and shut down courthouses in Western Massachusetts during this event

Shays' Rebellion

200

These people wanted a strong central government when the Constitution was being written

Federalists 

200

This man was the first Secretary of the Treasury 

Alexander Hamilton

200

This word means a practice established by the government that becomes a tradition later on 

Precedents 

300

These surveyors were enlisted to explore the land purchased by Jefferson

Lewis and Clark 

300

Joe Schmoe was shut down by George Washington's troops in Western PA during this event 

Whiskey Rebellion

300

The Anti-Federalists got this added to the end of the Constitution, to protect individual rights

The Bill of Rights (First 10 Amendments)

300

Jefferson hoped to avoid war and starve the British by calling for this, which stopped trade all together 

An Embargo

300

The Supreme Court used Marbury v Madison to establish this power for itself

Judicial Review

400

These two laws helped encourage settlement in what is now the Midwest (name one)

Northwest Ordinance, Land Ordinance

400

Joe Schmoe got his right to criticize the government taken away by these Federalist laws

The Alien and Sedition Acts

400

This Constitutional principle means that no branch of government is to have too much power allocated to it

The Separation of Powers


400

What was the main reason Federalists did not take action on British impressment (turning sailors into Navy officers)?

It would disrupt trade and thus $$

400

This was the agreed upon fraction that a slave represented in the population count 

3/5ths (Three-Fifths Compromise)

500

During the war of 1812 the United States invaded what territory?

British Canada

500

In 1800 most Joe Schmoes had what occupation

Farmer

500

This principle of the Constitution meant that power was to be shared between the states and federal government 

Federalism 

500

What was the main way Jefferson raised funds for the federal government during his administration

Selling land 

500

This man challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel 

Aaron Burr

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