New Nation Study Guide by Kelsey and Matt

1. Your guide to
studying!™
By: Kelsey Denby and Matthew Bomes

2. Vocabulary
What branch, and branch leader
nominates judges to the Supreme Court?
What document can the government not
take away from the states or people?
What part in the Congress is based on
population and include 435 members?
What document was created in 1787
and tells us how government is ran?

3. Vocabulary Answers
President and Executive Branch
Constitution and the Bill of Rights
House of Representatives
The Constitution

4. Life in 1790
What percent of people in 1790 were
slaves that lived in the south?
When wearing the clothes in 1790 what
reflected what reflected when you wore
them?
What are some of the examples of jobs in
1790?

5. Answers to life in 1790
19% were black and 90 % of the blacks
live in the south
The wealth of the person (financial
status)
bookbinder- binds books, brick maker-
makes bricks for houses, Saddler- made
saddles, harnesses and other leather
items, printer- made the newspapers

6. Geography
When trading goods, what major river
was used to transport trade items to from
other countries?
What states today, made up New York
in 1790?
What states did the Appalachian
Mountains go through?

7. Answers for Geography
Mississippi River
New York and New Hampshire
South Carolina, North CArolina,
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts,
New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New
Hampshire

8. Important People
Who was the first Supreme Court Chief Justice?
Why would Jefferson be sympathetic to France?
Based on our class knowledge,what leaders
during this time also fought in the
Revolutionary War?
Who had the two roles of being the President of
the senate and to fill in if the President could
not act in 1790?
Who was the first Secretary of Treasury?

9. Answers to Important
People
John Jay
Washington, Hamilton, Knox
The Vice President~ John Adams
Alexander Hamilton

10. Money Issues
Who do we owe the most money to after
the Revolutionary War?
When the people would borrow money
from the citizens, what would the
citizens get in return?
Which people bought the most bonds?

11. Answers to $$ Issues
France
They would receive bonds, which meant
if they lent money to someone they
would get it back, plus extra interest
Farmers

12. Loose or strict
interpretations of the
Which interpretation of the Constitution
involves following it exactly as it is
written?
Which person from congress believed i a
strict construction of the Constitution?
Define Loose Constitution.
What cabinet member was strongly for
loose interpretation of the Constitution?

13. Answers to Loose and
Strict
Strictly
Thomas Jefferson
Federal government could take
reasonable actions that the Constitution
did not specifically forbid it from
taking.

14. Creation of National
Bank
Who was in favor of the national bank
out of Hamilton and Jefferson and why
did they support it?
What single form of stable money did
the government accept in the national
bank?
Which type of government controls the
national bank?

15. Answers to National
Bank
Hamilton because he thought it would be
a reliable place for the government to
deposit and borrow money from.
payment of taxes
Federal Government

16. Foreign Policy
Did George Washington decide to side
with Britain or France?
Who signed the Treaty of Paris ending
the American Revolution and was this?
Who had been an ally to us during the
American Revolution? What year did
this take place?

17. Answers to Foreign Policy
HE STAYED NEUTRAL!! TRICKED
YOU ☺
British in 1783
The French in 1776

18. The Proclamation of
Neutrality
Why did we have to stay out of the
French Revolution?
When was the country declared neutral?
If you were to help any of the other
Powers, will the U.S. help you when you
get in trouble? Why or why not? (what
did the Neutrality Proclamation say?)

19. Answers to Neutrality
We didn’t have enough money, big
enough military, and we didn’t want
our land to be taken over by anyone
April 22, 1793
No, they will not help you because the
country told you not to get into the war
and you basically went against your
country for another one

20. Slavery during G.
Washington’s time
What are the three different ways the
Constitution refers to slavery?
What states had less than 200 slaves?
Was George Washington with or
against slavery?

21. Answers to Slavery
1) slave trade could be banned by 1808
(20 years) 2]The 3/5 compromise 3]
Fugitive slave act... if a slave ran away
to another state, that state had to return
the person
Vermont, New
Hampshire,Massachusetts, and Maine
He was personally against it

22. George Washington’s
Farewell Address
What was one of the main concerns that
G. Washington had about the political
parties?
What was one of the first things G.
Washington admitted to when he started
speaking?

23. Answers to Farewell
He was afraid that they would break up
based up on how the geography separated
them.
He said that he tried his best as the first
President and made mistakes like every
other person