Chapter 6
Study Guide
1. Who did not want to be held responsible for debts of the northern colonies?
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2. Under Hamilton’s Plan, beside what river was our capital located?
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3. How much was the United States in debt for, before Hamilton’s plan?
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4. What is a tax on imported goods?
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5. What is an extra sum of money which borrowers pay creditors in return for a
loan?
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6. What did Congress Establish in 1791 to help our financial issues?
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7. What profession did Jefferson retire from in 1793?
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8. What is it called when you follow the Constitution as it is written?
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9. What is it called when the Constitution is left up to interpretation?
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10. What year did the French Revolution begin?
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11. What was the disagreement over the French Revolution called?
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12. What set of Americans opposed the French Revolution?
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13. What word means, to not take either side?
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14. What did Washington issue at the start of his 2nd term?
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15. What state appeared to be in a state of rebellion over the whiskey tax?
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16. Who led the U.S. Army to Pittsburgh to stop the Whiskey Rebellion?
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17. Who was sent to London to negotiate which side the U.S. would be on in the
War between Britain and France in 1794?
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18. When was Jay’s Treaty ratified by Congress?
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19. What did artisans and professional men establish in 1793?
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20. What did historians call Republicans around the end of the 18th Century?
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21. What is a group of people who seek public office through elections?
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22. Who ran for President against Thomas Jefferson in 1796?
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23. What was it called when French agents tried to extort monies from the U.S.
government in the late 1700’s?
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24. What act gave the U.S. the right to imprison anyone from another country?
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25. What act gave our government the right to fine or jail those who wrote things
against the U.S.?
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26. What argued that states had the right to judge whether federal law agreed with
the Constitution?
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27. What is it when something is declared null and void?
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28. What was the main reason for the start of Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion?
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29. What did critics accuse Adams of being in the Election of 1800?
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30. What did Jefferson feel Americans needed to do for his administration to
succeed and his administration and for America to survive?
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31. What is a list of things you want to accomplish?
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32. What did Jefferson ask to be called when he was president?
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33. What are the departments and workers that make up the federal government,
called?
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34. Who were Jefferson’s greatest political rivals?
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35. What Act created a national court system?
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36. What Act increased the number of federal judges?
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37. What was John Marshall’s occupation before becoming Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court?
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38. What allows federal courts to review state laws?
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39. Who was sent to Paris to buy the city of New Orleans?
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40. What did the U.S. purchase from France in 1803 instead of New Orleans?
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41. Who did Jefferson choose to LEAD an expedition of the Louisiana Territory?
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42. What did Jefferson enact which outlawed almost all trade with foreign
countries?
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43. Who was elected President in 1808?
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44. What did the Miami, Delaware, and Shawnee Indians lose in the Treaty of
Greenville?
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45. What is an area the federal government set aside for Native Americans who lost
their homeland?
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46. What Native American leader was known simply as “The Prophet”?
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47. What is the process by which people of one culture merge into another culture?
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48. What began on November 7, 1811?
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49. Who rallied warriors to help fight with the British in Canada during the War of
1812?
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50. Where and what battle did Tecumseh die in?
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51. What group of people represented the interests of farmers moving west onto
Indian Lands?
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52. What is the act of forcing people into military action?
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53. Who captured more than a thousand English ships?
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54. What became the battle cry of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812?
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55. What (2) major Washington D.C. buildings were burned down in August of
1814, by the British?
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56. What were the British bombarding when Francis Scott Key was writing the
“Star Spangled Banner”?
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57. What did non-supporters of the War of 1812, call the War of 1812?
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58. What officially ended the War of 1812?
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59. What allowed Americans to end an unhappy war on a powerful, positive note?
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60. What was the United States first great depression called?
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