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23 Cards in this Set
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Alexander Hamilton
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He was a political genius, a New York lawyer, one-time military aid to General Washington, and illegitimate son of a Scottish merchant in the West Indies.
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The Founding Fathers
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They were the political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or otherwise took part in the American Revolution in winning American independence from Great Britain, or who participated in framing and adopting the United States Constitution in 1787-1788, or in putting the new government under the Constitution into effect.
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The Virginia Plan
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This plan called for a new national legislature consisting of two houses. The lower house represented the population in the states, while the upper house would be the representatives elected by the lower house.
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The Great Compromise
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This compromise called for a legislature in which the states would be represented in the lower house on the basis of population, with each slave counted as three-fifths of a free person in determining the basis for both the representation and direct taxation. This compromised was accepted on July 16, 1787.
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James Madison
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He was the most creative political thinker of his generation. He helped resolve the two most important questions: the question of sovereignty and the question of limiting power
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Sovereignty
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It is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area
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Separation of Powers
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This question was resolve by separating the powers in the government in such way that all powers are balance and they can check on each other to keep it balance, that no power can get stronger than the other.
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Federalists
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They were the supporters of the constitution
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Anti Federalist
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They were the people who didn’t support the constitution.
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The Federalist Papers
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They are a series of 85 articles or essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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The Bill of Rights
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Those were the first ten amendments of the constitution that placed limitations on the congress.
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The Cabinet
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The congress created the cabinet which consisted of three main departments, the state, the treasury, and the war.
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Bank of the United States 1790’s
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The house and the Senate agree to Hamilton’s idea and in 1791, the Bank of the United States began operating.
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Whiskey Rebellion
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It was a tax protest in Pennsylvania in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with a 1791 excise tax on whiskey.
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Citizen Genet
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"Citizen Genet," as he was called, an ambassador sent to our government by the French Republic, arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, where he was cordially received, in April, 1793.
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Jay’s Treaty
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It established undisputed American sovereignty over the entire northwest. And it produced a reasonably satisfactory commercial relationship with Britain.
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Pinckney’s Treaty
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This treaty allowed Americans to navigate the Mississippi River and trade in New Orleans, since that property was owned by the Spanish crown.
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The Quasi War
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A war at sea where the USA navy faced the French Navy. The United States won many battles and captured many vessels. The French ended the conflict and chose to conciliate the United States before the conflict grew.
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The XYZ Affair
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It was a diplomatic event that strained relations between France and the United States, and led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War. It took place from March of 1798 to 1800.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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They were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War.
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The Judiciary Act of 1801
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The federalist reduced the number of Supreme Court justice ships by one greatly increased the number of federal judgeship as a whole.
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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They were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures resolved to not abide by Alien and Sedition Acts. They argued that the Acts were unconstitutional and therefore void, and in doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict constructionist of the Constitution.
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Aaron Burr
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He served as the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805) under President Thomas Jefferson, and was the first Vice President to never serve as President.
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