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Who came when??? Put these presidents- ADAMS, JEFFERSON, and WASHINGTON- in order. first came Washington 2 came Adams 3 came Jefferson
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1- Washington
2- Adams 3- Jefferson |
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Presidents, beginning with Washington, have appointed people to advise them. What is this group of advisors called?
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the cabinet
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Alexander Hamilton worked to straighten out our new country's biggest problem. What was that problem?
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the economy was a mess
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What were the Alien and Sedition Laws?
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Laws that made it easy to imprison (put in jail) people who criticized the government.
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XYZ Affair:
What country did the U.S. have a dispute with? And what did the U.S. do? |
France;
The U.S. refused to pay a bribe. (The French wouldn't even talk to us unless we paid them $.(So we got mad at France and we made our army stronger so we couldn't be pushed around.) |
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What was the greatest thing that Thomas Jefferson did while he was president?
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the Louisiana Purchase
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Who explored the land that the U.S. bought in the Louisiana Purchase?
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Lewis and Clark did that
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What is judicial review and who has that power?
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It's the power to decide if a law is unconstitutional (that means the law is illegal because it is against the Constitution). The SUPREME COURT has the power.
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WAR OF 1812:
What was a cause of the war? |
impressment: The British navy was stopping the American ships, taking off American sailors, and making them serve in the British navy.
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WAR OF 1812:
Who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," the poem that became our National Anthem?Today that we leesion to at the footballe games and pasballe games and at the pasball games and at the school pepreally too? |
Francis Scott Key
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