Washington Leads a New Nation

Hamilton and National Finances
Challenges for the New Nation
John Adams's Presidency
Jefferson Becomes President
100

An honest leader, a hero of the Revolution, and the first U.S. president

Who is George Washington

100

The national bank

What is Bank of the United States t

100

Private ships hired by a country to attack its enemies

Who are privateers 

100

Groups that help elect people and shape politics

What are political parties

100

Federalist president first elected in 1796 who lost the 1800 presidential election

Who is John Adams

200

A group of delegates, or electors, who represent the people’s vote in choosing the president

What is the Electoral College

200

The money owed by the United States

What is national debt

200

A formal statement that the United States would not take sides with any European countries who were at war

What is Neutrality Proclamation

200

A political group that wanted a strong federal government and supported industry and trade

What is the Federalist Party

200

2 men chosen by Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the lands of the Louisiana Purchase

Who are Lewis and Clark

300

George Washington’s wife and the First Lady

Who is Martha Washington  

300

The certificates that represent money

What are Bonds

300

A rebellion of the French people against their king that led to the creation of a republican government

What is the French Revolution

300

A political group that wanted to limit the federal government’s powers

What is the Democratic-Republican Party 

300

Shoshone who helped the expedition by naming plants and gathering edible fruits and vegetables for the group

Who is Sacagawea 

400

An action or a decision that later serves as an example

What is a precedent

400

The first secretary of state who thought that repaying the full value of all bonds would cheat bondholders who had sold their bonds at low prices

Who is Thomas Jefferson 

400

An uprising in which some farmers refused to pay the whiskey tax

What is the Whiskey Rebellion

400

A French demand for a $250,000 bribe and a $12 million loan in exchange for a treaty

What is the XYZ Affair 

400

The purchase of Land from France for $15 million, which roughly doubled the size of the United States

What is the Louisiana Purchase 

500

An act that created three levels of federal courts and defined their powers and relationships to the state courts

What is the Judiciary act of 1789 

500

The first secretary of the U.S. Treasury who wanted to pay the nation’s foreign debt immediately and gradually repay the full value of all bonds

Who is Alexander Hamilton

500

An agreement that gave the United States right of entry to American Indian lands

What is Treaty of Greenville 

500

Laws meant to crush opposition to war that deprived people of the freedom to say and write what they believed

What is the Alien Sedition Act

500

A case that established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review

What is Marbury v. Madison