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Question 1
Who was the first Chief
Justice of the Supreme
Court?
John Jay
Question 2
Who was the first Secretary of
State?
Thomas Jefferson
Question 3
Who held the first Office of the
Attorney General?
Edmund Randolph
Question 4
Who was the first Secretary of
the Treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
Question 5
Who was the first Secretary of
War?
Henry Knox
Question 6
Which of the first political
parties stood for rights of
states over the power of the
federal government?
Democratic-Republicans
Question 7
Supporters of the DemocraticRepublicans lived where?
Supporters tended to be in
the South and the West
Question 8
Supporters of the
Federalists Party tended to
live where?
Northeast
Question 9
The Democratic Republicans
were led by who?
Thomas Jefferson
Question 10
The Federalists were led by
who?
Alexander Hamilton
Question 11
How many amendments did
the Bill of Rights have when
it went into effect in 1791?
Ten
Question 12
What did the federal
government do in 1789 to
raise money?
Impose a tariff
Question 13
The war between Britain and
France put Washington in
difficult position because?
Both France & Britain traded
with the U.S.
Question 14
Pinckney’s Treaty gave the
U.S. what?
Right to navigate the
Mississippi River
Question 15
The idea that states can
declare a federal law
unconstitutional is called
Nullification
Question 16
The decision in the Marbury
v. Madison case established
Judicial Review
Question 17
In the Treaty of Greenville
what did the Native Americans
receive from the government
in exchange for giving up
land?
Yearly payment
Question 18
In 1807, President Jefferson
asked Congress to pass
what that halted all trade
with Europe?
Embargo Act
Question 19
Macon’s Bill # 2 reopened trade with both
Britain & France, but it stated that if neither
agreed to drop its restrictions on trade, the
U.S. would do what?
Stop Importing goods from the other nation
Question 20
The election of 1800 had an
outcome that did what?
Resulted in a tie of Electoral
College votes between two
candidates
Question 21
Who took the Clermont 150
miles up the Hudson River?
Robert Fulton
Question 22
Who served as a privateer in
his teens, later worked as a
maker of sails, and by age
32 owned a thriving sail
factory?
James Forten
Question 23
Who transformed gun-making
into a factory process?
Eli Whitney
Question 24
Who rose from slavery to
become a prominent leader
of the anti-slavery
movement?
Frederick Douglas
Question 25
Who built an American
locomotive engine?
Peter Cooper
Question 26
Who led an armed uprising
that killed more than 50
white people before he was
caught and hanged?
Nat Turner
Question 27
Who amassed a fortune in
New Orleans by retailing
imported dry goods?
Cecee McCarty
Question 28
Who introduced mass
production of cotton cloth to
the U.S.?
Francis C. Lowell
Question 29
Who perfected the telegraph
in 1831?
Samuel F.B. Morse
Question 30
Who was accused of planning an armed revolt
to free the region’s slaves, but was tried,
convicted, and hanged before the revolt
started?
Denmark Vesey
Question 31
Supreme Court rulings in 3 important cases
between 1816 & 1824 shaped the future of
American government by establishing what?
Dominance of the nation over the states
Question 32
The steamboat was an
improvement over barges
because it could do what?
Travel upstream
Question 33
What did people not like
about the first locomotives?
The were dirty and
uncomfortable
Question 34
The Boston Manufacturing
Company employed mostly
women and children
because?
They would work for lower
wages
Question 35
Cities grew in the U.S. during
industrialization because?
Higher wages of factory jobs
drew people from farms and
villages
Question 36
A cotton gin does what?
Removes cotton seeds
Question 37
Which social group is directly
under the planter elite in the
South?
Yeoman Farmer
Question 38
According to an accepted amendment to
the Missouri Compromise, slavery
could do what?
Could expand into the Arkansas territory,
but not to the rest of the Louisiana
Purchase
Question 39
John Q. Adams won the
Presidency in 1824
because?
He won the election in the
HOR
Question 40
After the 1824 election supporters of
Jackson labeled themselves as
Democrats, while Clay and his
supporters formed a new party called
what?
National Republicans
Question 41
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