Ch 4 WS #1

 

  1. What were the first executive departments in American Gov’t and who headed each?

 

 

 

 

  1. Why was the US gov’t in such debt during Washington’s Presidency?

 

 

 

  1. Who did Alexander Hamilton propose should pay off the debts individual states had? Why did James Madison oppose this idea?

 

 

 

 

  1. How was a compromise reached between Hamilton and Madison/Jefferson?

 

 

 

 

  1. How did Hamilton and Madison differ on the gov’t’s ability to create a Bank of the US?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is an excise tax? What did Hamilton place one on and what group was affected by it the most?

 

 

 

 

  1. How did the people affected in #6 react? How was this resolved?

 

 

 

  1. What were the differences between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans? Who were the main leaders of each?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. When civil war erupted in France, what sides did the Federalists and D-R’s support? Why?

 

 

 

  1. When the British began to fight the French after the French Revolution, what side did the US officially support?

 

 

  1. What were the main terms of Jay’s Treaty and Pinckey’s Treaty?