Federalist Era Quiz

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Answer the following questions in full complete sentences.

  1. What was the fundamental disagreement between Hamilton and Jefferson?
  1. Which member of Washington’s first cabinet was the most important, why?
  1. How did Hamilton plan to pay off the national debt?

Choose the best answer to the following multiple choice questions.

  1. What were the two things the first Congress did?
  2. Emancipation Proclamation and Supreme Court Act 1792
  3. Judiciary Act 1789 and Bill of Rights
  4. Passed Constitution and Mayflower Compact
  5. Ratified Jay’s Treaty and Pinckney’s Treaty
  1. Which of the following was not one of Hamilton’s policies?
  2. Selling bonds to pay of the national debt under the Articles of Confederation
  3. Federal government would pay the states’ debt
  4. The Federal government created a factory system to reduce the reliance on foreign trade
  5. Creating a National Bank
  1. How does Shay’s Rebellion compare to the Whiskey Rebellion?
  2. They were carried out by the same people.
  3. They were carried out against the same government
  4. Shay’s Rebellion was carried out by the rich while the Whiskey Rebellion was carried out by the poor
  5. They were both carried out against the government by a disgruntled populace
  1. Why was the Whiskey Rebellion important?
  2. It showed the federal government that the people really cared for their whiskey
  3. It showed the strength of the federal government in dealing with insurrection
  4. The federal government was forced to repeal the excise tax on whiskey
  5. The federal government lost and a new constitution was written
  6. What political party did Alexander Hamilton and John Adams belong to?
  7. Republican
  8. Whig
  9. Democrat
  10. Federalist
  11. Democrat-Republican
  1. What political party did Jefferson create?
  2. Republican
  3. Democrat
  4. Whig
  5. Democrat-Republican
  6. Federalist
  1. Which of the following were problems the United States had with the British Empire?
  2. Impressments
  3. The British were arming Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley
  4. The British were seizing our ships that were trading with France
  5. Canadians invaded Maine in order to annex it
  1. Who were the Sedition Acts designed to silence?
  2. Federalist that were upset with Adams
  3. Democrat-Republicans that were upset with the Federalists in power
  4. Whigs that were upset with the government
  5. Democrat-Republicans that were upset with Jefferson
  1. Who wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
  2. John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
  3. John Jay and Thomas Pinckney
  4. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
  5. Henry Knox and William Randolph
  1. What did the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions protest?
  2. The unconstitutionality of the Sedition Act
  3. The federalist control of the federal government
  4. The creation of political parties under Washington’s administration
  5. The unconstitutionality of the 1st amendment rights
  6. Why was the case Marbury vs. Madison important?
  1. Who did Jefferson buy Louisiana from and for how much?