Nation’s Early Beginnings1. Who was the first President?

2. What is a precedent?

3. What group did Washington create to advise him?

4. What two important pieces of legislation did the 1st Congress pass?

5. Who wanted to create a national bank?

6. What powers would be used to create a national bank?

7. How did the U.S. react to the latest British and French war?

8. What precedent for future Presidents did Washington set at his

retirement?

9. What two things did Washington warn the nation about?

10. What were the names of the first two political parties?

11. Name the group led by Alexander Hamilton?

12. Name the group led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

13. What type of government did Hamilton’s group support?

14. What role did Jefferson’s group want the government to play?

15. Who ran in the 1796 election?

16. Who became the 2nd President?

17. What problem was there with the Vice-President that term?

18. Name the scandal that involved the French and a bribe demand?

19. What laws passed by the Federalists limited criticism of the

government?

20. Which states objected to the laws with written resolutions?

21. The idea of a state ignoring an unconstitutional law is called?

22. What happened in the election of 1800?

23. Who wins the 1800 election?

24. What was Jefferson’s philosophy of government?

25. What Supreme Court case began the power of Judicial Review?

26. What lands did Jefferson acquire for the nation?

27. Who did Jefferson send to explore these new lands?

28. What Indian leader tried to unite Indians into a confederation?

29. Name the famous battle where the Indians were defeated by William

Henry Harrison?

30. What group eventually began to encourage war against Britain?

31. When did the war with Britain begin?

32. The British managed to partially destroy which U.S. city?

33. What major battle did the Americans under Andrew Jackson win?

34. Name the system of internal improvements designed to unite the

nation?

35. Who were the promoters of the internal improvements?

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36. Name the Supreme Court case that confirmed the use of implied

powers?

37. What was the name of the covered wagons that many people used for

travel?

38. Name the political statement that told European powers to stay out of

this hemisphere?

39. What did Eli Whitney do?

40. How did the cotton gin affect slavery?

41. What three issues began to divide the nation into sectional interests?

42. Name the compromise that determined the future of slavery in the new

states after 1820?

43. Who won the election of 1824?

44. How was this person chosen to be President?

45. Who won the election of 1828?

46. Who was commonly called the “Common Man’s President”?

47. What is the practice of giving jobs as rewards for service called?

48. What large Indian group resisted the efforts of the gov’t to move them?

49. What was the forced migration of this group called?

50. What state nearly left the Union over the high tariff of 1828?

51. Why did Jackson kill the National Bank?

52. What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?

54. Which President died soon after taking office?

55. Which Vice-President became the first to become President?

56. Which reformer promoted free public education?

57. Which reformer advocated mental hospital reformers?

58. Name the Convention where women stated their belief in equal rights?

59. System of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom?

60. Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”?

61. Why is “Civil Disobedience” famous?

62. Group of artists who painted landscapes of the American frontier?

63. Movement to ban alcohol?