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By: Kelsey Denby and Matthew Bomes

VocabularyWhat branch, and branch leader nominates judges to the Supreme Court?

What document can the government not take away from the states or people?

What part in the Congress is based on population and include 435 members?

What document was created in 1787 and tells us how government is ran?

Vocabulary Answers

President and Executive Branch

Constitution and the Bill of Rights

House of Representatives

The Constitution

Life in 1790 What percent of people in 1790 were slaves that lived in the south?

When wearing the clothes in 1790 what reflected what reflected when you wore them?

What are some of the examples of jobs in 1790?

Answers to life in 179019% were black and 90 % of the blacks live in the south

The wealth of the person (financial status)

bookbinder- binds books, brick maker- makes bricks for houses, Saddler- made saddles, harnesses and other leather items, printer- made the newspapers

GeographyWhen trading goods, what major river was used to transport trade items to from other countries?

What states today, made up New York in 1790?

What states did the Appalachian Mountains go through?

Answers for GeographyMississippi River

New York and New Hampshire

South Carolina, North CArolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire

Important PeopleWho was the first Supreme Court Chief Justice?

Why would Jefferson be sympathetic to France?

Based on our class knowledge,what leaders during this time also fought in the Revolutionary War?

Who had the two roles of being the President of the senate and to fill in if the President could not act in 1790?

Who was the first Secretary of Treasury?

Answers to Important People John Jay

Washington, Hamilton, Knox

The Vice President~ John Adams

Alexander Hamilton

Money Issues

Who do we owe the most money to after the Revolutionary War?

When the people would borrow money from the citizens, what would the citizens get in return?

Which people bought the most bonds?

Answers to $$ Issues

France

They would receive bonds, which meant if they lent money to someone they would get it back, plus extra interest

Farmers

Loose or strict interpretations of the Which interpretation of the Constitution involves following it exactly as it is written?

Which person from congress believed i a strict construction of the Constitution?

Define Loose Constitution.

What cabinet member was strongly for loose interpretation of the Constitution?

Answers to Loose and StrictStrictly

Thomas Jefferson

Federal government could take reasonable actions that the Constitution did not specifically forbid it from taking.

Creation of National Bank

Who was in favor of the national bank out of Hamilton and Jefferson and why did they support it?

What single form of stable money did the government accept in the national bank?

Which type of government controls the national bank?

Answers to National Bank

Hamilton because he thought it would be a reliable place for the government to deposit and borrow money from.

payment of taxes

Federal Government

Foreign PolicyDid George Washington decide to side with Britain or France?

Who signed the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution and was this?

Who had been an ally to us during the American Revolution? What year did this take place?

Answers to Foreign Policy

HE STAYED NEUTRAL!! TRICKED YOU ☺

British in 1783

The French in 1776

The Proclamation of NeutralityWhy did we have to stay out of the French Revolution?

When was the country declared neutral?

If you were to help any of the other Powers, will the U.S. help you when you get in trouble? Why or why not? (what did the Neutrality Proclamation say?)

Answers to NeutralityWe didn’t have enough money, big enough military, and we didn’t want our land to be taken over by anyone

April 22, 1793

No, they will not help you because the country told you not to get into the war and you basically went against your country for another one

Slavery during G. Washington’s timeWhat are the three different ways the Constitution refers to slavery?

What states had less than 200 slaves?

Was George Washington with or against slavery?

Answers to Slavery1) slave trade could be banned by 1808 (20 years) 2]The 3/5 compromise 3] Fugitive slave act... if a slave ran away to another state, that state had to return the person

Vermont, New Hampshire,Massachusetts, and Maine

He was personally against it

George Washington’s Farewell AddressWhat was one of the main concerns that G. Washington had about the political parties?

What was one of the first things G. Washington admitted to when he started speaking?

Answers to Farewell

He was afraid that they would break up based up on how the geography separated them.

He said that he tried his best as the first President and made mistakes like every other person