Chapter 10 Study Guide
1. What act increased the time required to become a citizen from 5 to 14 yrs.?
2. What helped the United States and France to declare peace?
3. Who won the election of 1796?
4. What was the name of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican newspapers?
5. Who was the leader of the Federalist Party?
6. Who was the leader of the Democratic - Republican Party?
7. Who was the first Attorney General of the United States?
8. Who was Washington’s Secretary of War?
9. Who was Washington’s Secretary of state?
10. Which federalist leader helped sponsor the first ten amendments?
11. Who were the first president and first vice president of the United States?
12. What battle did the American troops finally defeat the Native Americans?
13. What event happened because a French diplomat plotted to ignore Washington’s order of neutrality and
equip ships to fight the British?
14. Which amendment called for electors to vote on separate ballots to elect the President and Vice
President?
15. What did the United States have to pay local rulers in order to safely trade with some foreign countries?
16. What document led Native Americans to surrender most of the land in present-day Ohio?
17. Who was the first presidential family to live in the White House?
18. Who was appointed chief justice by John Adams?
19. Which two states claimed the Sedition Act was a violation of the Constitution?
20. Which act allowed the U.S. government to arrest and deport all aliens who were citizens of foreign
nations at war with the U.S.?
21. Which act gave the President the power to imprison or deport any foreigner?
22. Who was the person who filled in for the vice-president if he was absent from the Senate?
23. Who was the person who supposedly stitched the first stars and stripes on the American flag?
24. What treaty allowed American ships the use of the lower Mississippi River and trade through the port of
New Orleans?
25. What three things did Washington warn against in his farewell address?
26. What were the problems that Washington faced when he came into office?
27. What were the four departments that made up Washington’s cabinet and who occupied them?
28. What decision did Washington make on getting involved in the French Revolution and why?
29. What was the Jay Treaty? Why were American upset over it?
30. What happened in the election of 1800? Who ran, who won? What amendment came out of this
election?
31. What was the importance of the political press and how did it affect our country? Give specific
examples.
32. What was the compromise between James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton over
Hamilton’s economic plan?
33. What is a political party? What were the first two political parties and what were at least five things
each party stood for? What were each parties view points?