Chapter 6
Study Guide
Administration
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The officials in the executive branch of
government
Precedent

Act or statement that becomes a tradition
Bureaucracy
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The departments and workers that make up
the government
Judicial Review
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The power to review decisions made by
Congress and the President
Impressment
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Taking sailors from their ships and forcing
them into foreign service
XYZ Affair
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Diplomatic controversy in 1798 in which
France officials demanded bribes of
American negotiators
Sectionalism
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Placing interests of one region above those
of the nation as a whole
What was the French Revolution?

Republican uprising in France
What political party was led by
Thomas Jefferson?

Democratic Republicans
What did the Alien and Sedition Acts
do?

Allowed the arrest and deportation of
immigrants who criticized the government
What was the name of the group of angry
young politicians who wanted to start a
new war with Britain?

War Hawks
Who was Tecumseh? What did he do?


Leader of the Native American resistance
attempted to unite Native Americans
against white intruders
Explain the difference between strict
construction and loose construction.

Strict: The government can do only what is
stated in the Constitution.
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Loose: The government has implied
powers and can do anything not forbidden
by the Constitution.
Who was the 1st Chief Justice?

John Jay
Who established Judicial Review?

John Marshall
What did the Louisiana Purchase do to the
size of the United States? Who did we
purchase the territory from?
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Doubled the size of the U.S.
Purchased from France
Who won the election of 1800?

Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton was the first…

Secretary of Treasury
Name the Native American guide
who aided Lewis and Clark.

Sacajawea
What did the Judiciary Act of 1789
do?

Created a Supreme Court with a Chief
Justice and 5 associate Justices
Why did the Whiskey Rebellion
take place?
Response to
unpopular excise tax

When was the Treaty of Ghent
established?

Two weeks before the War of 1812 ended
What was the result of the War of
1812?

The British had to give
up their North
American forts.
What was Hamilton’s motive for wanting
to move the capital from New York City to
a site on the Potomac?

Win southern support
for the Constitution
and the National Bank.
What were the causes of the War
of 1812?
What was Thomas Jefferson’s point of
view on the size of the federal
government?
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Jefferson believed in
strict construction.
He wanted the
government to be as
small as possible.
Power should be
retained by the states.