APUSH Quiz Chapters 10-11

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The following was NOT a characteristic of the Federalist Party: *

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it favored a strong central government and sponsored the Alien and Sedition Acts

they favored weakening the central government over concerns regarding individual liberty

it sponsored the Alien and Sedition Acts

it favored building roads and canals and favored the Bank of the United States

Hamilton's domestic program reflected his belief that *

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America's best opportunity for economic survival lay in its traditional source of strength, agriculture

the nation had to be industrially self-sufficient, and that the national government had to maintain authority over the states

the survival of the federal government depended on the republican virtues of the common people

the states needed to reassert power over the national government, because individual self-sacrifice and virtue were most effective on a local level

Hamilton believed in the necessity of the federal government to assume all Revolutionary War debt in order to *

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establish the credit of the newly formed federal government

tie the regions of the North and South into a more unified entity

gain the support of common citizens such as farmers and shopkeepers

preserve the location of the nation's capital in New York

Why did the northern states vote for Hamilton's plan to assume state debts? *

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northern representatives agreed to transfer the federal capital from Philadelphia to a location on the Potomac River

most southern senators and congressmen had speculated in state bonds and would make large profits if they were repaid in full by the federal government

most of them had been unable to pay off their debts and stood to gain from federal assumption of that debt

southerners believed that a stronger union would benefit the South more than other sections of the nation

The next 3 questions refer to this passage:

"The excise tax is an infernal one. The first error was to admit it by the Constitution; the second, to act on that admission; the third and last will be, to make it the instrument of dismembering the Union, and setting us afloat to choose what part of it we will adhere to. The information of your militia, returned from the westward, is uniform, that though the people there let them pass quietly, they were objects of their laughter, not of their fear: that one thousand men could have cut off their whole force in a thousand places of the Allegheny; that their detestation of the excise tax is universal, and has now associated to it a detestation of the government; and that a separation which perhaps was a very distant and problematic event, is now near and certain, and determined in the mind of every man." --Thomas Jefferson, 1794

In response to the Whiskey Rebellion, Jefferson believed all of the following EXCEPT *

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excise taxes are evil

excise taxes should not have been included in the Constitution in the first place

the federal government had the right to enforce the collection of excise taxes

Pennsylvanians did not approve of the excise tax

What sense of mockery is presented by Jefferson in the excerpt? *

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the national government is foolish for passing an excise tax

Western Pennsylvania chose not to follow the excise tax law

the federal government acted on its power to enforce the excise tax

the militia sent to enforce the excise tax was not as powerful as first believed

What political philosophy does Jefferson indicate in the excerpt? *

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federal law reigns supreme

states have ultimate authority in determining the legitimacy of laws

the federal government is justified in enforcing laws

states may secede from a distrusted Union

John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 *

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to provoke treasonous acts by political rivals such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

to curb the power and to quiet the criticism of the Democratic-Republicans

to prepare for a possible invasion by British forces

to halt the French immigration into the United States

Which of the following was one of the accomplishments of Jay's Treaty? *

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it reopened the British West Indies trade to American ships

it settled the issue of compensation for slaves taken during the American Revolution

it arranged for withdrawal of British troops from American soil

it ended the British practice of impressment

What legal principle was established by the case of Marbury v. Madison? *

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presidential succession

territorial acquisition

federal supremacy

judicial review

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