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 Democratic- Republicans 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

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