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Standard Indicator 8-3.4
SC’s role in developing a new national government
1. The new ______was established in 1789.
2. George Washington was elected the first ______of the United States.
3. Alexander Hamilton, as ______, called for an economic policy that would strengthen the national government.
4. What did Hamilton propose?
A. ______
B. ______
C. ______
D. ______
5. The two political parties that developed as a result of disagreements over Hamilton’s proposals were the ______, led by Alexander Hamilton who favored the policies of Hamilton, and the ______- ______, who were led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and opposed Hamilton’s proposals.
6. The ______elite from South Carolina tended to support the Federalists while those from the ______supported the Democratic-Republicans.
7. Most South Carolinians supported the assumption of state debts. Why?
8. Why did Democratic-Republicans eventually support the assumption of state debts? What occurred in SC that was similar to this?
9. What was the biggest controversy between the two parties?
10. The Democratic-Republicans argued that the Constitution should be interpreted ______; it did not specifically grant Congress the right to create a national bank. Federalists argued that Congress had been granted the authority to make all laws that were “______” to the execution of its powers. They argued that a bank was necessary for the power to tax and control commerce which was granted to the national government in the Constitution.
11. Washington sided with the ______and signed into law a bill creating the First National Bank.
12. The Democratic-Republicans ______to this extension of the power of the central government and wanted to balance the federal power with ______rights.
13. Federalists and Democratic-Republicans also disagreed over ______policy.
14. When the French Revolution began in 1789, the Democratic-Republicans supported the ______in the overthrow of their king, while the ______sided with Britain to secure the trade market.
15. George Washington issued a ______as the United States attempted to remain neutral in the Napoleonic Wars.
16. President John Adams sent South Carolinian ______to negotiate peace with France.
17. ______, and two other Americans, met with three representatives of the French government (X, Y, and Z), who asked for a bribe, which was declined. This incident became known as the ______, and brought the emerging political parties into conflict.
18. Federalists passed the ______, which were designed to limit the growth of the Democratic–Republican Party and to silence its newspapers. Several newspaper publishers were jailed. Who was one of the South Carolinians jailed for failing to follow the Federalist’s Act?
19. What did the Democratic–Republicans claim that the Federalists were violating?
20. Jefferson and Madison wrote ______saying that states had the right to nullify an act of Congress that they found to be unconstitutional, such as the ______Acts.
21. What controversy led to the election of Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800?
22. In 1807, Congress passed the ______Act to stop American trade with both Britain and France, which devastated the American shipping industry based in New England, a Federalist region.
23. Federalists ______both the embargo and later the War of 1812.
24. In 1810, War Hawk ______was elected to Congress from South Carolina and urged Congress to declare war on Great Britain.
25. In 1812, the United States declared war on ______and invaded Canada where the American army was defeated.
26. The War of 1812 brought a new surge of ______.
27. The Federalist Party died as a result of their ______to the war, and the Democratic-Republicans, including John C. Calhoun, began to support Federalist policies including a ______and the ______.