George Washington
This is the term that means that George Washington was the first to do something that other Presidents would follow.
What is Precedent
He was the second US president
Who is John Adams
She ran away from the Washingtons, and lived the rest of her life as a fugitive slave.
Who is Ona Judge?
Define sedition
What is treason
True or false: President Washington chose a policy of neutrality (staying out of foreign wars & affairs)
What true
Adams distrusted immigrants, especially those from this nation:
What is France
Adams was a member of this political party
Who are the Federalists
he helped write write the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions & was a Democratic Republican opposed to the Alien & Sedition Acts
Who is Jefferson (or Madison)
President Washington disliked these, which he felt to be divisive (causing division)
What is political parties
This 4th act of the Alien and Sedition Acts did not pass
What is the act that forbade immigrants from teaching or editing newspapers or serving in office
Name a law we studied that was signed by Washington while he was president (identify by name or just describe)
What are:
The Judiciary Act of 1789 or
The first fugitive slave act
This word means declaring a law void (not following a law)
what is nullification
This rebellion was shut down by the Washington administration effectively and with no loss of life
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
These responses to the Alien & Sedition Acts claimed states had the final say in whether to follow a law of Congress (the principle of nullification)
What are the Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
The 2 main & different purposes of the Alien & Sedition Acts
What are:
1. tighten & strengthen national security
2. weaken the Democratic-Republican party
What law set up the federal courts and added detail to how the Supreme courts & the federal court system would function? (passed in the late 1700s)
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
Name 3 out of the 4 the cabinet positions that Washington created (or the people who served in those positions)
Who are: Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson Henry Knox Edmund Randolph
What are: War, State, Treasury, Attorney General
The Alien Act raised the residence requirement for American citizenship from five years to this number of years.... (pick one)
10, 14, 18, 25
What is 14 years
What word means favoring the interests of a region over those of the whole nation
what is:
sectionalism
Until 1801, The Sedition Act allowed people to be fined or imprisoned for doing one of two things. Name one of them:
What is 1. opposing any measure(s) of the United States 2. making statements that bring the president "into contempt or disrepute"