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Federal judiciary act |
1789 law passed by the 1st Congress that set up lower federal courts |
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1st chief justice in the US Supreme Court |
John Jay |
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Attorney General |
Nation's top legal officer; today also the head of Department of Justice |
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Cabinet |
Group of executive departments heads that serve as a president chief advisers |
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Tariffs |
Tax on imported goods |
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Became the 1st vice president |
John Adams |
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What 6 members of Supreme Court did the battle Judiciary act give |
Chief Justice, or judge, in 5 associate justices |
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The federal Judiciary act also provided for _______ powerful federal courts |
Less |
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Congress created these departments : |
state war treasury justice postal service |
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The state department delt with |
Relations with other countries |
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The war apartment dealt with |
It was in charge of the nation's defense |
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The Treasury department dealt with |
It was in charge of the nation's economy or financial security |
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What was Hamilton's plan |
1) pay off war debts 2) raise government revenues 3) creating national banks |
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Hamilton believed in a _________ government |
Strong central |
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tariffs serve two purposes: |
raising money for the government and encouraging the growth of national businesses |
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National Bank duties |
It would give the government a safe place to keep money. It would also make loans to businesses and government. Most important, it would issue bank notes |
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2 opponents of the national bank |
Jefferson and Madison |
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Jefferson and Madison believed in a _________ interpretation of the Constitution |
Strict |
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loose interpretation of the constitution: |
favors greater federal powers |
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strict interpretation of the constitution: |
the federal government has very limited powers |
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Elastic clause: |
It gives Congress the authority to do whatever is necessary and proper to carry out its specific powers |
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The disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson's opposing philosophies lead to |
2 political parties |
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Battle of fallen timbers |
1794 battle between native Americans and American forces |
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Treaty of Greenville |
1795 treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded control of much of Ohio and Indiana to the US government |
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whiskey rebellion |
1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers |
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French revolution |
revolution overthrowing the government in France that began in 1787 and ended in violence and mass executions |
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Jay's treaty |
Agreement that ended the dispute with Britain over American shipping during the French revolution |
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Pinckney's treaty |
1795 treaty with Spain allowing US commercial use of the Mississippi river |
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The whiskey rebellion gave Washington a chance to |
Show that the government had the power and the will to enforce laws |
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What did Jay's and pinckney's treat both do? |
reduce tensions along the frontier |
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what did the pinckney's treaty accomplish |
It gave us the right to travel freely on Mississippi river, it told us that the united state's goods could be stored in the poor New Orleans free of custom duties, and Spain accepted the 31st parallel as the northern boundary of Florida and the southern boundary of the United States |
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what did Jay's treaty accomplish |
It forced the British to leave the Ohio Valley and to pay damages for the United States vessels they had seized |
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Zebulon Pike |
Leader of a southern expedition in Louisiana territory |
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Lewis and Clark expedition |
Group that explored the Louisiana territory and the Landes West; also known as the corps of discovery |
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Louisiana purchase |
American purchase of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 |
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Sacagawea |
shoshone woman who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition |
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William Clark |
co-leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition |
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Mariwether Louis |
Army captain appointed by president Jefferson to explore the Louisiana territory and lands West of the Pacific ocean |
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Why is the significance of the Marbury v Madison case |
It was the 1st time the Supreme Court exercised the power of judicial review |
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How was the tie between Burr and Jefferson broken and who won? |
The House of Representatives had to choose, and they chose Jefferson |
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How did the 2 parties each think that the other was a threat to the Constitution and the American republic |
The democratic republicans argued that the alien sedition acts passed by federalists in Congress in 1798 violated the bill of rights. Meanwhile, the Federalist thought the nation was about we ruined by radicals. (The radicals executed thousands in the name of liberty during the French Revolution ) |
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Judicial review |
Principle that States that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution |
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John Marshall |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adam's |
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Judiciary act of 1801 |
law that let president John Adams fill of federal judgeships with federalists |
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Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of the United States, elected in 1801 |
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The Kentucky resolution insisted on the principle of____ |
Nullification |
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The ____ and ____ ____ were Jefferson's and Madison's way to fight the alien and sedition acts |
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
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What did the alien sedition acts do |
One act increase the waiting period for US citizenship from 5 to 14 years. Other acts gave the president the power to arrest suspicious aliens are to deport them in wartime. Another act outlawed sedition or stirring up rebellions against our government. |
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Hamilton in his friends form the ____ party |
Federalist |
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Jefferson and Madison form the ____ party |
Democratic-Republicans |
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Kentucky and Virginia resolutions |
Resolutions passed by Kentucky and Virginia in 1798 giving the States the right to declare acts of Congress null and void |
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nullification |
Idea that a state could cancel a federal law within the state |
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States rights |
Idea that the States have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule |
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Alien and sedition acts |
Series of 4 laws inacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants |
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XYZ affair |
1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats |
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Jefferson and Madison pictured a ____ government that was ____ and full of ____ |
Strong state; rural; farmers |
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Hamilton believed in a___government and wanted a United States in which ____,____, and ____ grew |
Strong central; trade; manufacturing; and cities |
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What did Washington warn when he was leaving office |
He warned them that they should stay neutral and steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world |
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Washington spent____ years in office |
2 |
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Andrew Meikle |
Inventor of the Threshing machine |
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Mechanical Reaper |
A device that cuts grain |
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Threshing machine |
A device the separates kernels of wheat from their husks |
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Factory System |
Method of production using many workers and machines in one building |
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Eli Whitney |
Inventor of the cotton gin |
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Samuel F. B. Moorse |
Inventor of the telegraph |
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Peter Cooper |
Builder of Americas most successful steam-powered locomotive |
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Robert Fulton |
Inventor of Americas 1st widely successful steamboat |
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Samuel Slater |
Builder of the 1st water powered textile milling America |
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Industrial Revolution |
The economic changes in the late 1700s when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
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The Battle of New Orleans was a ____ for _____ |
Victory; Jackson |
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What caused the War of 1812 |
The British impressing our soldiers and the interference with American shipping |
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Oliver Hazzard Perry |
Naval officer who led the US victory over the British on Lake Erie in 1813 |
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War Hawk |
Westerner who supported the War of 1812 |
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Tecumseh |
Shawnee chief who sought to stop the loss of Native American land to white settlers |
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Embargo act of 1807 |
Law that forbade American ships from sailing into foreign ports and closed American ports to the British |
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What influenced Napoleons offer to sell all of the Louisiana purchase |
He was alarmed by Americans determination to keep the port of New Orleans open Hati decreased his want for a colony in America He needed money from their costly war against Britain |
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Who bought the Louisiana Purchase? |
Jefferson |
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Cotton Gin |
Machine that made cleaning cotton faster |
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Cyrus McCormick |
Invented the reaper |
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Nat Turner |
Leader of a 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia |
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What did Nat Turner's rebellion do? |
Slaves went and killed 55 men, women, and children |
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Henry Clay |
Nationalists representative from Kentucky |
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American System |
Plan introduced in 1815 to make America economically self sufficient |
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James Monroe |
5th president of the United States, who proclaimed the Monroe doctrine |
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What were the effects of Nat Turner's rebellion |
It spread fear in the south Whites killed 200 in revenge The slavery in the south clamped down on slaves |
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Erie Canal |
Waterway that connected New York city to Buffalo, New York |
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Missouri Comprise |
Laws inacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave and free States |
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The 3 main actions of the American System |
Establish a protective tariff Establish a national bank that would promote a single currency Improve the country's transportation System |
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McCullough v. Maryland |
Court ruled you cannot tax a national bank |
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Gibbons v. Ogden |
2 steamship operators fought over shipping rights on the Hudson river in New York and New Jersey. The court ruled that the interstate Commerce could be regulated only by the federal government, not by the state government |
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Mason-Dixon line |
Division between slave States and free States as well as the division between the North and the South |
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Which battle ended Native American resistance in the Northwest territory |
Battle of Fallen Timbers |
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_______ is a narrow path between the mountains where TN, VA, and KY meet |
Cumberland Gap |
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_______ was the first governor of TN. |
John Seiver |
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The treaty of the Holston |
This 1791 treaty allowed settlers a new road to middle TN and the TN River |
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_______ was the capital of the Southwest Territory before Knoxville. |
Rocky mountain |
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