Apush Chapter 10

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XYZ Affair

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In response to continued French aggression at sea, John Adams sent a diplomatic envoy to France to
negotiate for peace in 1797. Charles de Talleyrand, the French foreign minister, refused to meet with the
U.S. delegation and instead sent three anonymous agents, X, Y, and Z, to try to extort over $12 million
from the Americans in exchange for negotiation rights. This widely publicized attempt at extortion
aroused public outrage among the American people, some of whom called for war.

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Whiskey Rebellion

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A July 1794 riot that broke out in western Pennsylvania in response to a high excise tax on whiskey initiated by Alexander Hamilton. In a show of national strength, President George Washington led a force of militiamen to crush the rebellion.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Passed by Federalists in 1798 in response to the XYZ Affair and growing Republican support. On the
grounds of “national security,” the Alien and Sedition Acts increased the number of years required to
gain citizenship, allowed for the imprisonment and deporation of aliens, and virtually suspended
freedom of speech. Popular dissatisfaction with the acts secured Republican Thomas Jefferson’s bid for
presidency in 1800, and were the undoing of the Federalist Party.

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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Created the American court system. The act established a federal district court in each state and gave the Supreme Court final jurisdiction in all legal matter. John Jay was first supreme court Judge

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Written in 1798 by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
condemned the Federalists’ broad interpretation of the Constitution and instead put forth a compact
theory of the Union, which stated that states’ rights superseded federal powers. Virginia and Kentucky
endorsed these resolutions in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The arguments outlined in these
resolutions would resurface in the mid-nineteenth century in the political crises involving tariff issues
and slavery—issues that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War.

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Ninth Amendment

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declares "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"

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Tenth Amendment

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reservers all rights not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the federal constitution "to the states, respectively or to the people."

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Talleyrand

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Was the French foreign minister during the XYZ affair.

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Citizen Genet

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a representative of the French government he tried to draft people in America for the french against Britain

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Strict Constitution

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Was how the Jeffersonian Democratic Republic viewed the Constitution. This was a literal interpretation.

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Excise Tax

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Is a tax on domestic products and it was put on whiskey and later called the whiskey rebellion

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Bank of the United States

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was created in 1791 and was charted for twenty years in Philadelphia it was to have a capital of 10 million, one fifth of it owned by the federal government. Stock was thrown open to public sale and people bought it right away.

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Jay's Treaty

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was pretty much the Paris treaty all over again. British promised to move their troops out and U.S. promised to pay the debts back.

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Pickney Treaty

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Treaty with Spain in 1795 granted Americans free navigation in Mississipi and also territory of Western Florida

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Compact Theory

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was influenced by the Kentucky Virginia Resolution, it says that the states created the federal government not the federal government creating the states and therefore states should have power over the compact theory

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Jefferson Republicans

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Believed in the common man, agriculture, and strong state government. Also believed in the bill of rights.

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Convention of 1800

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was a meeting that result in the divorce of an alliance between America and France.

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Federalists

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Were aristocratic men, who believed in a strong central government and less power to states. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay

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Neutrality Proclamation

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was 1793 and stated that America would be neutral amongst all other countries but was important to be neutral during the British-Franco war.