Fredricks History Terms Washington And Adams Administration

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An attempt to expand the Florida border by paying Americans to expatriate themselves and settle in the Old Southwest Territory

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Spanish Conspiracy

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Area that included the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Int this unit it was the subject of a treaty with England and an area of repeated Indian fighting.

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Northwest Territory

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Basically a "paper blockade." Napoleon's threat to stop American shipping.

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Milan Decree

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By pushing this law through Congress Adams expanded the federal court system and guaranteed Federalist influence for decades to come.

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Judiciary Act

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Created by Washington it is the president's closest advisors

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Cabinet

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Denied by Spain, the ability of Americans to ship in and out of New Orleans

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Right of Deposit

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Discourage squatters divided western lands into 36 mile squares for orderly settlement

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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England's assertion that trade closed in times of peace cannot be opened in times of war.

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Rule of 1756

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Extremely important statements of two southern state legislatures that carried out the state;s rights v. central authority argument and establishment the "compact theory"

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Failed document or social contract that created the second government of the USA during the years 1777-1789

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Articles of the Confederation

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Four laws that were supposed to guard against a French threat but perhaps were politically motivated to suppress Republican campaigning and opinion.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Hamilton's law that gave us our current system of money

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Mint Act of 1792

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Hamiltons's main idea or brain child and the forerunner of the modern Federal Reserve System (National Bank)

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BUS

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Hosted by George Washinton it led to the resolution of most trade controversies between Virginia and Maryland and demonstrated that the states could cooperate outside of the constraints of the Confederation Congress

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Mount Vernon Convention

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In an effort to protect the interest of large states this would have given each state the number of votes in the new legislature

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Virginia Plan

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In an effort to protect the interest of small states this would have given each state the number of votes in the new legislature

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New Jersey Plan

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It gives us a two house legislature with a House of Representatives and a senate

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Connecticut Compromise

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Jefferson saw this law to end his state's public funding of the Anglican church as one of his chief political accomplishments

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Virginia Statue of Religious Liberty

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Like Patrick Henry, those who opposed ratification of the Constitution fearing the loss of states rights.

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Antifederalists

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Massachusetts revolt that was just one more evidence of the weakness of government under the Articles of Confederation

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Shays Rebellion

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Only five states attended this but we determined it succeeded because it failed

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Annapolis Convention

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Presided over by George Washington it resulted in Madison writing our "We hold the People" social contact

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Constitutional Convention

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Principally created to support a stronger central government. This was the political party of Hamilton and it dominated this era.

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Federalist Party

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Resulted in the election of John Adams as president and the unusual pairing with Jefferson as Vice President

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Election of 1796

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Spain's attempt, finally ended by Pinckney, to expand her influence into America's Old Southwest Territory

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Right of Deposit

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Structure of government in which all real authority is with one central agency

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Unitary Structure

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Structure of government in which there is a real sharing of power between state authority and a central authority

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Federal Structure

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Structure of government in which various independent and sovereign states attempt to cooperate in a league of friendship

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Confederate Structure

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The Judicial appointments of Adams in the late, closing hours of his administration

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Midnight Judges

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The ordeal in which three American diplomats to Paris were made to meet with unidentified French envoys in a secluded place and bribed

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XYZ affair

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The pre-revolutionary 1833 process of ending state supported churches in America

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Disestablishment

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The time between the election of a new president and the outgoing of the previous president. In theory a president has little power during this time.

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Lame Duck

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These essays published largely in New York and Virginia newspapers they argued for ratification of the Constitution

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Federalist Papers

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These largely guaranteed individual liberties, the first ten amendements to the Constitution

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Bill of Rights

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This finally achieved the evacuation of the Northwest Territory but was unpopular with the people because it id not guarantee freedom of the seas

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Jay's treaty

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This has been called the "crown jewel" of the confederation period. it establishes the method of turning territories into states

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Northwest Ordinance

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this law makes it illegal for anyone to serve as a diplomat or envoy without the President's approval

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Logan Act

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This resolved the controversy over the counting of slaves for representation and taxation purposes

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3/5 compromise

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This was the bill (law) authorizing the new government to pay the Congressional Bond debt incurred by the Second Continental Congress and the Confederation Congress

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Assumption bill

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Those who favored ratification of the Constitution

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Federalists

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To prevent the problem of 1796 this mandates that the President and Vice President run for office as a unified ticket

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12th amendment

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TO solicit or sell common trade or fishing boats into naval service

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Privateering

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Uprising of Western Pennsylvania corn farmers against the excise tax

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Whiskey Rebellion