Exam 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

The new Constitution made no reference to political parties.

The "Republicans" of the 1790s were institutionally related to the Republican Party of the 1850s.

What political conditions and developments led to Republican domination in the election of 1800?

As treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton

Federalists controlled the new government under the Constitution for its first

Supporters of the new Constitution were better organized than were their opponents.

In the Constitution, political parties were

Alexander Hamilton wanted state debts to be assumed by the federal government so that the entire debt could be paid off at once.

Who among the following was one of the authors of The Federalist Papers?

In the 1780s, American manufacturers wanted to replace the various state tariffs with a uniformly high national duty.

James Madison decided that sovereignty ultimately resided with ________.

In America, the French Revolution was generally praised by

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were the authors of ________.

Under the new Constitution, the federal government would have the power to tax, regulate commerce, and control the currency.

By the late 1780s, dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation included a belief that the national government

George Washington was greatly alarmed by Shays's Rebellion.

Edmund Randolph and James Madison wanted to strengthen the federal government with their proposed ________ Plan.

At the Philadelphia convention, the small-state plan was called the ________ Plan.

At Hamilton's urging, President Washington dispatched an army to put down the ________.

Explain how the structure of the central government, as defined under the Articles of Confederation, was intended to resolve many of the grievances colonists had with the British government prior to the Revolution.