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What was the whiskey rebellion? |
when farmers rebelled bc of tax on whiskey george washington goes himself to the battlefield with an army |
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What was the main significance of the Whiskey Rebellion? |
It shows that the exucutive branch has the power to enforce laws |
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What was the battle of fallen timbers? |
Native Americans were fighting American settlers as the expandedWest, they were able to fight back since they were armed by the British |
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Significance of Fallen timbers |
Treaty of Greenville, Natives give up a lot of land in exchangefor money and a promise to be left alone, a promise which is not kept for long |
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Precedent President- |
to establish precedent means to establish tradition or to serve as an example |
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Significance of Precedent President |
Main Points/Significance: Since Washington was the 1st President many of his policies set precedent |
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What is a cabinet? |
team of special advisors that serve the president and offer advice |
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What was Washington's Cabinet |
Secretary of State- Jefferon Secretary of Treasury - Hamilton Secretary of War- Knox |
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What was washington forgein policy? |
Washington was an isolationist, he believed that we shouldn’t be involved in the affairs of foreign countries, he passed the Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793, |
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What/when was Pinckneys Treaty? |
A treaty wit Spain in 1794 which granted spain access to the Mississsissippi River |
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What/when was Jays Treaty? |
1794 with great Britain that attempted to settle some of our leftover issues |
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What did washington say in his farewell adress? |
During his last speech in office, Washington gives the nation two majorwarnings- 1. Stay Neutral in the war between the British and France and 2. Beware of partisan political fighting |
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What were the Alien and Sedition acts? |
Adams passes the Alien acts which extends the time it takes to become an immigrant from 5-14 years, puts more restrictions on immigration. The Sedition Acts made it illegal to speak negatively about the government or the President. |
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significance of the s and a acts? |
Adams passes the Alien acts to prevent immigrants fromvoting, he passes the Sedition acts for fear that the ideas of the French Revolution would spread |
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What was the XYZ affair? |
affair-Adams sends Gerry, Marshall and Pinckney to negotiate a treaty with France, in response France offers a bribe, the US delegates are insulted and respond with “Millions for Defense, not one cent for Tribute!” |
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Signigicance of the XYZ affair? |
Shows the world that the US would demand to be takenseriously |
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What was the Louisiana Purchase? |
1803 US Purchases 828,000 square miles of land from France the“Louisiana Territory”, Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark to explore. |
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Main point of the Lousisiana Purchace? |
Doubles the size of the US |
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What were the embargo acts of 1807? |
Jefferson does not want to take sides with either Britain or France, so hesuspends trade with both Britain and France, this devastates the US economy & leads to smuggling |
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Signigicance of the Embargo Acts? |
The Embargo Acts end up being a huge failure, hurting theUS economy more that France or Great Britain and shaming Jefferson |
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What is a first party system? |
First Party System- The 1st two political parties were the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans, the Federalists were for big, elite government and the Democratic Republicans were for small government and a local farmer based economy |
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Significance of the First Party System? |
The Federalists were led by Adams, the Democratic Republicans by Jefferson. While Madison was a Federalist, he we FOR the war, most Federalists were NOT, which eventually leads to the death of the political parties |
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Why did the war of 1812 happen? |
The British and the Americans go to war over the British impressment(kidnapping) of US sailors, the British forts in the US and the British arming of Native Americans |
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What was the significance of of the war of 1812? |
The Americans are able to win which boosts AmericanNationalism: people are proud to be Americans and feel like they’re part of one nation |
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Facts about the Star Spangled Banner? |
Written by Francis Scott Key at the Battle of Baltimore which was at Ft.McHenry, becomes the National Anthem in 1932. Key wrote it while being held by the British |
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Significance of star spangled banner? |
Contributes to Nationalism, people are proud to beAmericans and feel like they’re part of one nation- Era of Good Feelings begins |
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What was the Missouri compromise? |
In 1820, Congress agreed to admit Missouri as a slave state, but made free Maine (once part of Massachusetts) a separate state. Also prohibited all slavery in Louisiana Purchase territory north of 36'30 (the southern boundary of Missouri) |
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Significance of the Moissouri compromise? |
Main Points/ Significance: One of the leading causes of the Civil War (1861-1865) |
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What was the Era of Good Feelings? |
the period from 1817 to 1823 in which the disappearance of the federalistsenabled the Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony. |
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Significance of the era of good feeling? |
The Era of Good Feelings (1817-1825) - was a time of peace andnational expansion, which took place during James Monroe 's two terms serving as President of the United States. Following the war of 1812, the people of the United States didn't worry as much about foreign affairs as they did over American Individualism and Nationalism. |
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What was Monroe Doctrine? |
The Monroe Doctrine stated that the free American continents are not to besubject to future colonization by European powers. The United States intended to remain neutral to existing European colonies in America but strongly opposed the creation of new ones among the Hispanic American republics that recently gained independence. The Monroe Doctrine revealed that any further efforts of countries from Europe to colonize land in North or South America would be regarded as acts of aggression and as such requires American intervention. |
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significance of the Monroe doctrine? |
Significance: Stated the any European attempts to colonize in North or South America would be deemed acts of aggression. |
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what was the second party system? |
a period in American political history between 1828 and 1854 and sawrising levels in votes and the major parties were the Democrats led by Jackson and the Whigs led by Clay. |
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significance of the second part system? |
Emerges after the death of the Federalist Party, led to the modernday formations of parties, Whigs=Republicans |
