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Chapter_10_Launching_the_New_Ship_of_State_1789_1800 (1)

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

67. Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from

  a. sales taxes and licensing fees.
  b. customs duties and excise tax.
  c. income and property taxes.
  d. western land sales and foreign loans.
  e. foreign aid.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Custom Duties and Excise Taxes

 

68. The legal basis for Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s Bank of the United States was

  a. rejected by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  b. supported by Thomas Jefferson.
  c. accepted by the bank’s opponents, even if they disagreed with the goals and objectives of the bank on policy grounds.
  d. based on the “necessary and proper,” or “elastic,” clause in the Constitution.
  e. rejected by President George Washington.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank

 

69. Jefferson’s argument against the constitutionality of a Bank of the United States were based on the strict construction principles, especially embodied in the

  a. Articles of Confederation.
  b. “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution.
  c. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
  d. Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
  e. restrictions on Congress’s power in Article I, section 10 of the Constitution.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank

 

70. Political opponents of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton asserted that his major economic programs infringed on

  a. constitutional guarantees of checks and balances of political power and authority among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the central government.
  b. national security.
  c. states’ rights, explicitly reserved to them by pending ratification of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
  d. free enterprise.
  e. federal authority.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit
Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank

 

71. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government

  a. levied an excise tax on whiskey.
  b. tried to prohibit the sale of whiskey.
  c. allowed the import of foreign whiskey.
  d. halted the export of American whiskey.
  e. tried to prohibit the manufacturing of whiskey.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Mutinuos Moonshiners in Pennsylvania

 

72. All of the following are true statements about the Whiskey Rebellion except

  a. backcountry pioneer folk saw whiskey not as a luxury but as an economic necessity and medium of exchange.
  b. protesters felt burdened by Hamilton’s economic programs.
  c. President Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by negotiating a peaceful resolution of the conflict with the protestors.
  d. protesters erected whiskey poles similar to liberty poles used against the Stamp Act in 1765.
  e. whiskey rebels tarred and feathered revenue officers.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania

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