Review Part I: Political Developments in the New Nation

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  1. 6. Led by Thomas Jefferson, this political party believed that government should be small and insisted on a strict construction of the Constitution.
  2. 7. The ____________is a body of delegates from each state that represents the people’s vote in choosing the president.
  3. 9. The rivalry between these two political parties dominated the elections of 1796 and 1800.
  4. 10. This was the first challenge to the U.S. government’s ability to enforce the law when a rebellion took place following an excise tax being placed on luxury goods.
  5. 13. A group of people with similar political ideas who get together to gain power.
  6. 14. The _____________________ can best be defined as the amount of money owed by the United States.
  7. 16. He believed that the United States’ government should be used to help create a strong economy based on manufacturing, business, and trade.
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  1. 1. The _________________________ , which stated the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional, supported the idea that state governments could challenge the federal government.
  2. 2. Hamilton believed the reason the United States needed to found a ___________________was to stabilize the national economy.
  3. 3. Adopted after the election of 1800, this amendment to the Constitution created a separate ballot for president and vice president.
  4. 4. Americans wanted him to be president because he was seen as an honest leader.
  5. 5. He believed that informed citizens were generally good and capable of making good decisions for their country.
  6. 8. Led by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, this political party believed in a strong central government and a loose construction of the Constitution.
  7. 11. He personally led the army against the participants in the Whiskey Rebellion because he felt people needed to understand the constitutional right of Congress to create and enforce tax laws.
  8. 12. The rights kept by the states under the Constitution; supporters of this believed states did not have to recognize federal laws that were unconstitutional.
  9. 15. Republicans Jefferson and Madison wrote resolutions that said states had a duty to ____________, or refuse to recognize the Alien and Sedition Acts.