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Federal judiciary act

1789 law passed by the 1st Congress that set up lower federal courts

1st chief justice in the US Supreme Court

John Jay

Attorney General

Nation's top legal officer; today also the head of Department of Justice

Cabinet

Group of executive departments heads that serve as a president chief advisers

Tariffs

Tax on imported goods

Became the 1st vice president

John Adams

What 6 members of Supreme Court did the battle Judiciary act give

Chief Justice, or judge, in 5 associate justices

The federal Judiciary act also provided for _______ powerful federal courts

Less

Congress created these departments :

state


war


treasury


justice


postal service

5 names

The state department delt with

Relations with other countries

The war apartment dealt with

It was in charge of the nation's defense

The Treasury department dealt with

It was in charge of the nation's economy or financial security

What was Hamilton's plan

1) pay off war debts


2) raise government revenues 3) creating national banks

Hamilton believed in a _________ government

Strong central

tariffs serve two purposes:

raising money for the government and encouraging the growth of national businesses

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

2 opponents of the national bank

Jefferson and Madison

Jefferson and Madison believed in a _________ interpretation of the Constitution

Strict

loose interpretation of the constitution:

favors greater federal powers

strict interpretation of the constitution:

the federal government has very limited powers

Elastic clause:

It gives Congress the authority to do whatever is necessary and proper to carry out its specific powers

The disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson's opposing philosophies lead to

2 political parties

Battle of fallen timbers

1794 battle between native Americans and American forces

Treaty of Greenville

1795 treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded control of much of Ohio and Indiana to the US government

whiskey rebellion

1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers

French revolution

revolution overthrowing the government in France that began in 1787 and ended in violence and mass executions

Jay's treaty

Agreement that ended the dispute with Britain over American shipping during the French revolution

Pinckney's treaty

1795 treaty with Spain allowing US commercial use of the Mississippi river

The whiskey rebellion gave Washington a chance to

Show that the government had the power and the will to enforce laws

What did Jay's and pinckney's treat both do?

reduce tensions along the frontier

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

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

Zebulon Pike

Leader of a southern expedition in Louisiana territory

Lewis and Clark expedition

Group that explored the Louisiana territory and the Landes West; also known as the corps of discovery

Louisiana purchase

American purchase of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803

Sacagawea

shoshone woman who assisted the Lewis and Clark expedition

William Clark

co-leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition

Mariwether Louis

Army captain appointed by president Jefferson to explore the Louisiana territory and lands West of the Pacific ocean

Why is the significance of the Marbury v Madison case

It was the 1st time the Supreme Court exercised the power of judicial review

How was the tie between Burr and Jefferson broken and who won?

The House of Representatives had to choose, and they chose Jefferson

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 )

Judicial review

Principle that States that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution

John Marshall

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adam's

Judiciary act of 1801

law that let president John Adams fill of federal judgeships with federalists

Thomas Jefferson

3rd president of the United States, elected in 1801

The Kentucky resolution insisted on the principle of____

Nullification

The ____ and ____ ____ were Jefferson's and Madison's way to fight the alien and sedition acts

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

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.

Hamilton in his friends form the ____ party

Federalist

Jefferson and Madison form the ____ party

Democratic-Republicans

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

nullification

Idea that a state could cancel a federal law within the state

States rights

Idea that the States have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule

Alien and sedition acts

Series of 4 laws inacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants

XYZ affair

1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats

Jefferson and Madison pictured a ____ government that was ____ and full of ____

Strong state; rural; farmers

Hamilton believed in a___government and wanted a United States in which ____,____, and ____ grew

Strong central; trade; manufacturing; and cities

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

Washington spent____ years in office

2

Andrew Meikle

Inventor of the Threshing machine

Mechanical Reaper

A device that cuts grain

Threshing machine

A device the separates kernels of wheat from their husks

Factory System

Method of production using many workers and machines in one building

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the cotton gin

Samuel F. B. Moorse

Inventor of the telegraph

Peter Cooper

Builder of Americas most successful steam-powered locomotive

Robert Fulton

Inventor of Americas 1st widely successful steamboat

Samuel Slater

Builder of the 1st water powered textile milling America

Industrial Revolution

The economic changes in the late 1700s when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work

The Battle of New Orleans was a ____ for _____

Victory; Jackson

What caused the War of 1812

The British impressing our soldiers and the interference with American shipping

Oliver Hazzard Perry

Naval officer who led the US victory over the British on Lake Erie in 1813

War Hawk

Westerner who supported the War of 1812

Tecumseh

Shawnee chief who sought to stop the loss of Native American land to white settlers

Embargo act of 1807

Law that forbade American ships from sailing into foreign ports and closed American ports to the British

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

Who bought the Louisiana Purchase?

Jefferson

Cotton Gin

Machine that made cleaning cotton faster

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the reaper

Nat Turner

Leader of a 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia

What did Nat Turner's rebellion do?

Slaves went and killed 55 men, women, and children

Henry Clay

Nationalists representative from Kentucky

American System

Plan introduced in 1815 to make America economically self sufficient

James Monroe

5th president of the United States, who proclaimed the Monroe doctrine

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

Erie Canal

Waterway that connected New York city to Buffalo, New York

Missouri Comprise

Laws inacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave and free States

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

McCullough v. Maryland

Court ruled you cannot tax a national bank

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

Mason-Dixon line

Division between slave States and free States as well as the division between the North and the South

Which battle ended Native American resistance in the Northwest territory

Battle of Fallen Timbers

_______ is a narrow path between the mountains where TN, VA, and KY meet

Cumberland Gap

_______ was the first governor of TN.

John Seiver

The treaty of the Holston

This 1791 treaty allowed settlers a new road to middle TN and the TN River

_______ was the capital of the Southwest Territory before Knoxville.

Rocky mountain