HST 304 MIDTERM Questions with Correct Solutions
Question:
1. Public credit
Answer:
Hamilton wanted to bolster the nation's public credit by asking the congress to pay off the
nation's debt at face value and assuming all the states' debts. Significance: Through this he
wanted to achieve public confidence in the central government.
Question:
2. Alexander Hamilton
Answer:
1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank,
assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the
national debt.
Question:
3. Articles of Confederation
Answer:
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax,
no power to regulate trade)
Question:
4. Aaron Burr
Answer:
Aaron Burr was one of the leading Democratic-Republicans of New york, and served as a U.S.
Senator from New York from 1791-1797. He was the principal opponent of Alexander
Hamilton's Federalist policies.
Question:
5. Judiciary Act of 1801
Answer:
a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill most
of the new posts with Federalists
Question:
6. William Henry Harrison
, Answer:
(1841), was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States.
His death created a brief Constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about
presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th
Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Question:
7. John Adams
Answer:
America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in
Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to
be restrained."
Question:
8. Whiskey Rebellion
Answer:
1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers
Question:
9. Federalist Papers
Answer:
Written by Hamilton, Jay, & Madison to support ratification of the U.S. Constituiton
Question:
10. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Answer:
Resolutions passed in 1798 that attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as being
unconstitutional
Question:
11. War Hawks
Answer:
Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of
nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand.
Question:
12. Edmond Genet
Answer:
French diplomat who tried to get American support against the British
Question:
1. Public credit
Answer:
Hamilton wanted to bolster the nation's public credit by asking the congress to pay off the
nation's debt at face value and assuming all the states' debts. Significance: Through this he
wanted to achieve public confidence in the central government.
Question:
2. Alexander Hamilton
Answer:
1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank,
assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the
national debt.
Question:
3. Articles of Confederation
Answer:
1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax,
no power to regulate trade)
Question:
4. Aaron Burr
Answer:
Aaron Burr was one of the leading Democratic-Republicans of New york, and served as a U.S.
Senator from New York from 1791-1797. He was the principal opponent of Alexander
Hamilton's Federalist policies.
Question:
5. Judiciary Act of 1801
Answer:
a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill most
of the new posts with Federalists
Question:
6. William Henry Harrison
, Answer:
(1841), was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States.
His death created a brief Constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about
presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th
Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Question:
7. John Adams
Answer:
America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in
Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to
be restrained."
Question:
8. Whiskey Rebellion
Answer:
1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers
Question:
9. Federalist Papers
Answer:
Written by Hamilton, Jay, & Madison to support ratification of the U.S. Constituiton
Question:
10. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Answer:
Resolutions passed in 1798 that attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as being
unconstitutional
Question:
11. War Hawks
Answer:
Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of
nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand.
Question:
12. Edmond Genet
Answer:
French diplomat who tried to get American support against the British
