This is the official body of voters, chosen by states under the Constitution, who in 1789 unanimously elected George Washington as president.
What is the electoral college?
100
These are the secret codes for three French agents who attempted to extract bribes from American diplomats in 1797.
What are X, Y, and Z?
100
This territory, which doubled the size of the US when it was purchased from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million, was explored and mapped out by Lewis and Clark.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
200
This British West Indies native headed the Treasury under the George Washington administration and adopted the policies of funding at par and assumption.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
These were harsh and controversially unconstitutional laws passed under the Adams administration that were aimed at radical immigrants and Jeffersonian writers.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
200
Chief Justice John Marshall established this principle during the Marbury v. Madison trial, which declared that the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
300
This is the doctrine, proclaimed in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, that a state can block a federal law it considers unconstitutional, which created a crisis in South Carolina in 1832.
What is nullification?
300
Hamilton created this institution to create a stable currency, which was bitterly opposed by states' rights advocates and was destroyed by the Jackson administration.
What is the Bank of the United States?
300
This event, as well as the impressment of American sailors, challenged Washington's neutral policy under the Jefferson administration when a British ship purposefully overhauled a US ship ten miles off the coast of Virginia killing three Americans and wounding eighteen others.
What is the Chesapeake Affair?
400
This revolt, led by poor western Pennsylvania farmers in response to an excise tax set on the "Old Monongahela rye," challenged the new national government when George Washington sent troops to western Pennsylvania to crush the insurrection.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
400
This act established the Supreme Court with a chief justice and five associates, as well as federal district and ciruit courts, and established the office of attorney general.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
400
This agreement was reached in 1817 between Britain and the US, which held that neither country could maintain armed fleets on the Great Lakes, as was previously the case.
What is the Rush-Bagot Treaty?
500
This is the political theory on which Jefferson and Madison based their antifederalist resolutions declaring that the thirteen sovereign states had created the Constitution.
What is the compact theory?
500
This policy, suggested by George Washington in his Farewell Address, was challenged by French republic representative, Citizen Edmond Genet, when he recruited armies to invade Spanish Florida, Louisiana, and British Canada.
What is neutrality?
500
This Supreme Court case arose when the president of a New Hampshire college tried to change the college from a private to a public institution by revoking the charter without consent from the trustees. The Supreme Court ruled that the charter could not be revoked without consent from both parties.