Chapter 6 - The Constitution and the New Republic

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Alien Act
The ________ helped discourage immigration and encouraged some foreigners already in the country to leave.
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Madison
________ wrote in The Federalist Papers, Number 10, perhaps the most influential of all the essays.
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Jefferson
________ was the uncontested candidate of the Republicans in 1796.
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Congress
________ approved twelve amendments on September 25, 1789; ten of them were ratified by the states by the end of 1791.
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Virginia
The ________ and Kentucky Resolutions, as they were known, used the ideas of John Locke to argue that the federal government had been formed by a "compact "or contract among the states and possessed only certain delegated powers.
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Benjamin Franklin
On September 17, 1787, thirty- nine delegates signed the Constitution, doubtless sharing the feelings that ________ expressed at the end:"Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best ..
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John Adams
________, a leading Federalist, became vice president.
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Adams
________ presided over a divided party, which faced a strong and resourceful Republican opposition committed to its extinction.
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Royal Navy
Early in 1794, the ________ began seizing hundreds of American ships engaged in trade in the French West Indies, outraging public opinion in the United States.
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Tenth Amendment
The ________ reserved to the states all powers except those specifically withheld from them or delegated to the federal government.
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George Washington
________ had presided at the Constitutional Convention, and many delegates who had favored ratification did so only because they expected him to preside over the new government as well.
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Sedition Act
The ________ allowed the government to prosecute those who engaged in "sedition "against the government.
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Virginia Plan
The ________ (as it came to be known) called for a new national legislature consisting of two houses.
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credible candidate
Hamilton, the personification of Federalism, had created too many enemies to be a(n) ________.
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Congress
The first ________ served in many ways almost as a continuation of the Constitutional Convention, because its principal responsibility was filling in the various gaps in the Constitution.
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Alien Act
The ________ placed new obstacles in the way of foreigners who wished to become American citizens, and it strengthened the presidents hand in dealing with aliens.
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Congress
Article I excluded "Indians not taxed "from being counted in the population totals that determined the number of seat states would receive in the House of Representatives, and it gave ________ the power to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ..