On-Level the New Republic (Ch. 9) People

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On-Level – The New Republic (Ch. 9) People For each definition, identify the person being described. All people have full names. All names need to be spelled correctly and capitalized appropriately.

1. ______Selected as the nations 1st vice-president and elected the 2nd president in 1796; he received great criticism for the Alien & Sedition Acts, served 1 term as president

2. ______African American who helped survey the site for Washington D.C. and plan its design; published a series of almanacs in the 1790s

3. ______Washington’s 1st Secretary of the Treasury; came up with a plan to try and solve the nation’s economic problems in 1789, favored tariffs and a national bank; founder of the Federalist Party

4. ______The 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, sent by Washington to England in 1794 to work out a treaty to resolve conflicts between Americans and British

5. ______Washington’s 1st Secretary of State; opposed Hamilton’s economic plans including the tariff and the bank; helped found the Democratic-Republican Party, lost the election of 1796 to Adams and became the 2nd vice-president

6. ______Washington’s Secretary of War, today we call this the Defense department instead of War

7. ______Argued that the Constitution did not give the government power to create a bank; helped Jefferson found the Democratic-Republican Party

8. ______Sent to Spain to work out a treaty to allow Americans to use the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans. (1)

9. ______Provided Washington with legal advice as the 1st Attorney General, today the Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice

10. ______First President of the United States, taking office in 1789, supported Hamilton’s economic changes, tried to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars, served 2 terms in office, set many precedents that are still used by the government today