Federalist Era

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1 The political figure who took the lead in establishing the Washington administration's domestic priorities was Alexander Hamilton George Washington Thomas Jefferson John Adams Thomas Paine 2 Hamilton's national bank provoked the first clear-cut argument over the strict vs. loose interpretation of the Constitution was ruled unconstitutional by Chief Justice John Jay was a fully government-owned-and-operated institution helped the U.S. retire its old revolutionary debt as quickly as possible all of the above 3 The U.S. gained unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans by sending troops across the river into Spanish territory signing an alliance with France against Spain negotiating the Pinckney Treaty with Spain buying New Orleans from the French none of the above 4 The Sedition Act forbade any individual to oppose any law in the U.S. was designed to be in effect for only three years made it illegal to speak, write, or print any statement about the president that would put him in disrepute all of the above none of the above 5 The XYZ Affair arose out of the French government's demand for a bribe as the price for negotiations increased the popularity of the Democrat-Republican Party and hurt the fortunes of the Federalists was provoked by Hamilton to increase the popularity of the Washington administration dealt with British fur agents in the Northwest arose out of the Whiskey Rebellion