7. Which is NOT true conceming the Alien and Sedition Acts? a) they were used by

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7. Which is NOT true conceming the Alien and Sedition Acts? a) they were used by the president to silence his politicall opponents, the Federalist newspaper editors b) they gave the president the power to imprison or deport aliens dangerous to the national welfare c) they raised the residency requirement from five to fourteen years for naturalized citizenship d) they provided fines and imprisonment for those who spoke or published Talse, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the govemment of the United States" or Congress or the they grew out of public anger at the undeclared naval war with France, the XYZ affair, the influx of Irish and French fleeing the abortive Irish Revolution of 1798 and the French Revolution of the 1790's e) 8. The most controversial part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program was a) b) c) d) e) federal assumption of state debts assessment of direct taxes on the states creation of the Bank of the United States imposition of high protective tariffs establishment of a bimetallic system 19. Pinckney's Treaty with Spain (1795) is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it a) b) c) d) e) allowed the US to use the port of New Orleans ceded Florida to the US invited Americans to settle in Texas opened Spanish Caribbean ports to American trade withdrew Spain's military forces from the Caribbean 20. The international incident known as the XYZ Affair involved a) a French foreign minister's demand for a bribe before he would meet with American envoys b) the British refusal to evacuate their forts on American teritory c) Alexander Hamilton's illegal duel with Aaron Burr d) the seizure of American crewmen from a US Navy warship by British naval forces in Chesapeake Bay e) Burr's secret plot to detach the westem US in order to create a new nation in which he would be the ruler 21. In the 1790's political conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson would have been more likely to: take a narrow view of the Constitution favor Britain over France favor the establishment of a national bank win the cooperation of presidents Washington and Adams oppose the efforts of Citizen Edmund Genet in America a) b) c) d) c)

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17. The option 'e' is not correct entirely. Although it is true that the act was made to strengthen national security against the threat arose from undeclared naval war with Franch, the anger for the influx of Irish flee is not correct. The Alien and Sedition act grew from the agitation of the federalists from the French immigrant only. This act was undertaken to guard the Federalists from the probable damage of anarchy.

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