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1. These acts forced Great Britain to recognize American rights
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Where: When: Significance: Treaty of Paris |
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2. Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
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Who:
Where: When: Significance: U.S. was neutral between Britain and France |
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3. Manufacturing has positive benefits to society is a belief held by
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Where: When: Significance: Capitalists |
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4. Financial program of Alexander Hamilton
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Who: US secretary of state that wanted debt and the first bank of the US
Where: The US When: 1781 Significance: His financial program created a system that gave the government financial stability and gave investors confidence to invest. |
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5. The event caused the Lewis and Clark expedition
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Where: When: Significance: Louisiana Purchase |
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6. New England merchants problems with Hamilton
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Where: When: Significance: Hamilton taxed them to death |
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7. Objectives of Bacon’s Rebellion, Boston Tea Party, Shay’s Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion
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Where: When: Significance: Rebellions against an “unfair” government that imposed “unfair” tariffs |
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8. Attitude of founding fathers toward political parties
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Where: When: Significance: George Washington asked in his farewell address to not form political parties |
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9. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Where: When: Significance: They gave power to the state and reinforced strict constitutionalism. |
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10. Actions of the first Congress of the United States
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Where: When: Significance: Establishment of a State department, tariffs for raising revenue, bill of rights, and a federal court system |
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11. Argument against Sedition Act
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Where: When: Significance: They were unconstitutional |
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12. Jefferson’s beliefs in 1790s
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Where: When: Significance: Congress having the ability to regulate commerce |
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13. Why Washington used the military
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Where: When: Significance: To stop the Whiskey Rebellion |
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14. Debate over the First Bank of the United States
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Where: When: Significance: How strictly the Constitution was being interpreted |
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15. Doctrine of nullification
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Where: When: Significance: A state could repeal any federal law that it deems unconstitutional |
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16. This act hurt the New England states
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Where: When: Significance: Embargo of 1807 |
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17. This branch of government help the Federalists from during the early 1800s
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Where: When: Significance: Judicial |
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18. Results of European Wars in the 1790s for George Washington
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Where: When: Significance: Neutrality Proclamation |
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19. War of 1812 naval effectiveness
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Where: When: Significance: T he Americans managed to repel the British naval fleets |
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20. Republican response to Alien and Sedition Acts
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Where: When: Significance: They believed it was unconstitutional and was repealed by Jefferson when he became president. |
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21. Hartford Convention
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Where: When: Significance: New England Federalists which spoke of seceding from the U.S. and to do some changes to the Constitution due to the War of 1812 and the trade restrictions |
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22. Original reason to get Louisiana
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Where: When: Significance: Port to provide an outlet for western crops |
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23. Supreme Court case that determined the constitutionality of congressional enactments
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Where: When: Significance: Marbury v. Madison |
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24. Impressment
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Where: When: Significance: British taking American sailors. |
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25. Thomas Jefferson’s view of a future society
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Where: When: Significance: Agrarian society |
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26. Revolution of 1800
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Where: When: Significance: When Thomas Jefferson becomes president (Democratic- Republicans in control) |
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27. Missouri Compromise
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Where: When: Significance: Prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri |
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28. Motivation for War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: British impressments of Americans |
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29. Monroe Doctrine
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Where: When: Significance: Westward expansion bad |
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30. Preventing war with France
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Where: When: Significance: Non- Intercourse Act |
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31. Effects of the War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: Nationalism |
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32. Treaty of Ghent
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Where: When: Significance: Ends War of 1812 |
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33. Judicial Review
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Where: When: Significance: Marbury v. Madison established principle |
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34. Relied heavily on trade with Britain
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Where: When: Significance: The U.S. according to Hamilton |
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35. Main characteristic of Era of Good Feelings
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Where: When: Significance: Democratic- Republican dominance, barely any Federalist opposition |
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36. Midnight Judges opposition
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Where: When: Significance: John Adams appoints many Federalist in the judicial branch to oppose the Democratic Republican president Thomas Jefferson |
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37. Andrew Jackson and Florida
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Where: When: Significance: Seminole War |
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38. Embargo Act of 1807
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Where: When: Significance: Prevented trade with foreign countries, caused by the British and the French |
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39. Federalist policies changed by Jefferson
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Where: When: Significance: Alien and Sedition acts were no more and he reduced taxes and debt |
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40. Foreign policy goals prior to 1812
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Where: When: Significance: Trading with foreign countries and waves of immigrants welcome |
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41. Marbury v. Madison
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Where: When: Significance: Established the principle for judicial review |
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42. Native American and the War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: The Native Americans allied themselves with the British to try to prevent Americans from taking their land. |
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43. Controlling the Mississippi River
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Where: When: Significance: Jefferson wanted the river to make internal water travel possible. (Traveling and trading through the Mississippi) |
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44. U.S. decision to enter the War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: The British were pestering the Americans (Impressment) |
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45. Embargo of 1807 effects on economy
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Where: When: Significance: The economy suffered |
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46. Consequences of the War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: Andrew Jackson becomes a national hero, The U.S. shows that it can defend itself and Federalists lose influence |
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47. Lasting effect of the Hartford Convention
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Where: When: Significance: Diminished Federalist power |
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48. When this event ended sea neutrality stopped as an issue
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Where: When: Significance: Napoleonic war |
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49. Second Bank of United States
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Where: When: Significance: Severe inflation during the War of 1812 cause the need for a national bank |
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50. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists speaker
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Where: When: Significance: Thomas Jefferson |
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51. This conflict accelerated U.S. manufacturing
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Where: When: Significance: War of 1812 |
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52. Reason Federalist added the Bill of Rights (R)
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Where: When: Significance: Constitution n did not protect many rights |
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53. Hamilton’s Financial Plan parts
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Where: When: Significance: paying of war debts raise government revenues, and creation of a national bank |
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54. This declared federal laws can be unconstitutional
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Where: When: Significance: Doctrine of Nullification |
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55. Argued States could nullify acts of Congress
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Where: When: Significance: Thomas Jefferson and Democratic Republicans |
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56. Beginning of the decline of the Federalists
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Where: When: Significance: Alien and Sedition acts |
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57. Consequences of the election of 1800
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Where: When: Significance: Democratic - Republican power increases |
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58. Monroe Doctrine definition
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Where: When: Significance: Efforts by European governments to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the United States of America as acts of aggression requiring US intervention and no American westward expansion |
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59. Invention of the Cotton Gin results
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Where: When: Significance: Slavery increased |
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60. Why Jefferson oppose Hamilton’s plan
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Where: When: Significance: National bank and wanting the U.S. to become manufacturing based National bank and wanting the U.S. to become manufacturing based |
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61. John Marshall’s Supreme Court
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Where: When: Significance: Established the principle of judicial review |
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62. Reasons for the War of 1812
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Where: When: Significance: British “recruitment” of Americans, and suspicion of British making the Indians hostile against the Americans, Canada |
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63. Era of Good Feelings and Nationalism
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Where: When: Significance: Federalist Party was basically dissolved and Democratic Republicans were free from partisan opposition |
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64. National issues of 1819 and 1820
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Where: When: Significance: The Panic of 1819 and Missouri Crisis |
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65. Republican Motherhood
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Where: When: Significance: Women having greater chances to influence political issues |
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66. He established the premise for broad understanding of the Constitution
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Where: When: Significance: Thomas Jefferson |
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67. Washington’s policy of neutrality reasons
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Where: When: Significance: The nation was too young and its military too small to risk any sort of engagement with either France or Britain |
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68. Hamilton’s economic policies beliefs
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Where: When: Significance: National debt would cement the union |
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69. Hartford Conventions issues
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Where: When: Significance: War of 1812, Louisiana Purchase, and the Embargo of 1807 |
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70. Non-Intercourse Act
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Where: When: Significance: Lifted embargoes on American shipping except with Britain and France |
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71. XYZ Affair
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Where: When: Significance: Corrupt French officials |
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72. James Monroe’s presidency
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Where: When: Significance: Missouri Compromise (Missouri free state and Maine slave state) and the Monroe Doctrine |
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73. Second War of Independence effects
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Where: When: Significance: Federalists lose power; manufacturing capability and military power increases |
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74. Proclamation of 1763 (R)
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Where: When: Significance: The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier |
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75. Eighth Amendment (R)
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Where: When: Significance: Prohibited the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments |
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76. These early British Acts tried to limited colonial production (R)
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Where: When: Significance: Intolerable Acts |
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77. Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 successes (R)
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Where: When: Significance: Helped to populate newly acquired western territories |
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78. Lacking the authority to tax (R)
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Where: When: Significance: Articles of Confederation |
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79. Jay’s Treaty
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Who: a treaty between the United States and Great Britain
Where: When: The treaty was signed in November 1794, but was not proclaimed to be in effect until February 29, 1796. Significance:averted war, solved many issues left over from the American Revolution, and opened ten years of largely peaceful trade in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars. |
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80. Shay’s rebellion (R)
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Who: Farmers angered by what they felt to be crushing debt and taxes.
Where: Central and Western Massachusetts When: 1786 to 1787 Significance: Financial crisis, demanded payment in gold and silver. |
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1. Judiciary Act 1789
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DE. It created effective federal courts in a hierarchal order. There were city, county, and state courts , along with circuit courts, and the Supreme Court
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2. Citizen Genet
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CDE. A French diplomat who came to the U.S. 1793 to ask the American government to send money and troops to aid the revolutionaries in the French Revolution
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3. Right of Deposit 1787
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BD. This was the right to pass through a port and trade goods paying taxes. Westerners wanted this privilege at the Port of New Orleans.
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4. John Marshall
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BCE. He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 33 years. He made the judiciary free from political attack.
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5. Lewis and Clark Expedition
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AC. The were sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
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6. Chesapeake Leopard Affair
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ACD. This incident between an American and British ship cause great public resentment among Americans
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7. Hamilton’s Financial Plan
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A. Designed to pay off the U.S.’s war debts and stabilize the economy, this idea believed that the United States should become a leading international commercial power. Its programs included the creation of the Bank of the United
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8. Whiskey Rebellion
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BE. In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders.
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9. Washington’s Farewell Address
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B. He warned against the dangers of political parties and foreign alliances
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10. Citizen Genet
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ABC. He was a French statesman who came to America in search of monetary aid.
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11. Jay’s Treaty
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C. It was signed in the hopes of settling the growing conflicts between the U.S. and Britain. It dealt with the Northwest posts and trade on the Mississippi River
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12. Pinckney’s Treaty
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CE. Treaty between the U.S. and Spain which gave the U.S. the right to transport goods on the Mississippi river and to store goods in the Spanish port of New Orleans
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13. XYZ Affair
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AB. This was a diplomatic scandal which took place from March of 1797 to 1800 in which three French agents, demanded a $12 million loan from the United States, and a formal apology for comments made by U.S. President John Adams
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14. Compact Theory (States Rights)
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AD. It was the belief that federal government acted as the states agent and that states can declare federal laws unconstitutional
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15. Revolution of 1800
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ABD. Jefferson’s election victory changed the direction of the government from Federalist to Democratic- Republican without incidence."
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16. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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E. Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional
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17. Judicial Review
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ABE. This was the power given to the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of a law passed by congress
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18. Louisiana Purchase
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ADE. Jefferson was interested in the territory because it would give the U.S. the Mississippi River and New Orleans (both were valuable for trade and shipping) and also room to expand.
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19. Impressment
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ABCD. British seamen often deserted to join the American merchant marines. The British would board American vessels in order to retrieve the deserters, and often seized any sailor who could not prove that he was an American citizen and not British
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20. Embargo Act
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D. This act issued by Jefferson forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S. It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade
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21. Non-Intercourse Act
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BCD. Replaced the Embargo of 1807, unlike the Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain.
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22. Macon’s Bill No. 2
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AE. Forbade trade with Britain and France, but offered to resume trade with whichever nation lifted its neutral trading restrictions first
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23. War Hawks
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BC. Western settlers who advocated war with Britain because they hoped to acquire Britain’s northwest posts
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24. Hartford Convention
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CD. This turned public sentiment against the Federalists and led to the demise of the party
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25. Treaty of Ghent
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ACE. Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner
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