Chapter 1 Test Review

“I walk on untrodden ground.”

To what was George Washington referring when he said this?

• the lack of precedents for the presidency

• the idea that he would be viewed as a king

• the political rivals that he had to deal with

• the fact that his cabinet did not get along

How many executive departments did the first Congress create?

• three

• five

• ten

• fifteen

By what name did these men, the executive secretaries in Washington’s administration, come to be known?

• the advisers

• the cabinet

• the legislative branch

• the executive branch

Use the T-chart to answer the following question.

Jefferson: • economy based on farming • small government • government run by ordinary men

Hamilton: • strong central government • government run by rich, well-born men Which phrase completes the Hamilton column of this chart?

• a) economy based only on manufacturing

• b) free education for children

• c) a king-like president

• d) a national bank

Which event resulted from disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?

• Two political parties formed.

• Hamilton left the government.

• The men became good friends.

• Washington dismissed both of them.

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people’ to take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless feild [field] of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, February 15, 1791

What is Jefferson arguing against in this statement?

• Washington seeking the advice of department heads

• Hamilton’s proposal for a national bank of the United States

• the creation of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican political parties

• the establishment of regional judicial circuits

What event sparked the Whiskey Rebellion?

• a tax placed on whiskey

• a law prohibiting whiskey production

• a limit on how much whiskey could be exported

• a law controlling how whiskey was transported

Why were Washington’s actions during the event shown here important for the country?

• They illustrated why small farmers should not be making whiskey.

• They showed that the government had the power to enforce laws.

• They showed that Washington was not concerned about small farmers.

• They stressed the importance of having a good transportation system.

Why was Benjamin Banneker’s involvement in the city plan shown here significant?

• Banneker became the first free African American surveyor in the country.

• Banneker was a Baltimore businessman who appointed the surveyor for this plan.

• Banneker was from France and designed the city plan in the style of European cities.

• Banneker remembered the design plan so that building continued after the lead architect was fired.

• Banneker was a free African American man who was given a great deal of responsibility during construction of the city.

“But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices [tricks] employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it.” —George Washington, Farewell Address

What is Washington warning Americans about in this excerpt?

• He fears that America will enter into a war.

• He is discouraging reliance on other counties.

• He does not want party politics to divide Americans.

• He worries that future presidents will seize too much power.