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29 Cards in this Set
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The political theory on which Jefferson and Madison based their antifederalist resolutions declaring that the 13 states created the Constitution.
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Compact Theory
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Documents signed in 1794 whose terms favoring Britain outraged Jeffersonian Republicans.
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Jay's Treaty
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Hamilton's policy of having the federal government take over and pay the financial obligations of the states.
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assumption
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Crafty French foreign minister who was first hostile and then friendly to Americans during a crisis.
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Talley Rand
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Alexander Hamilton's policy of paying off all federal bonds at face value, with interest, in order to strengthen the national credit.
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funding
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Political party that believed in the common people, no government aid for business, and a pro-French foreign policy.
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Republicans
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The cabinet office in Washington's administration headed by a brilliant young West Indian immigrant who distrusted the people.
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Secretary of the Treasury
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Washington's secretary of state and organizer of a political party opposed to Hamilton's policies.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Code names for three French agents who attempted to extract bribes from American diplomats in 1797.
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XYZ
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Brilliant administrator and financial wizard whose career was plagued by doubts about his character and loyalty.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Political party that believed in a strong government run by the wealthy, government aid to business, and pro-British foreign policy.
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Federalists
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The doctrine, proclaimed in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, that a state can block a federal law it considers unconstitutional.
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nullification
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Skillful politician-scholar who drafted the Bill of Rights and moved it through the First Congress.
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James Madison
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Effort that showed the 4 million Americans to be 90 percent rural and 95 percent east of the Appalachians.
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Census of 1790
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The constitutional office into which John Adams was sworn on April 30, 1789.
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vice president
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Message issued by Washington in 1793 that urged Americans to stay impartial and aloof from the French Revolutionary wars with the British.
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Neutrality Proclamation
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Political and social upheaval supported by most Americans during its moderate beginnings in 1789 but the cause of bitter division among Americans.
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French Revolution
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Institution established by Hamilton to create a stable currency and bitterly opposed by states' rights advocates.
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Bank of the United States
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The official body of voters, chosen by the states under the new Constitution, who in 1789 unanimously elected George Washington as president.
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electoral college
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A protest by poor western farmers what was firmly suppressed by Washington and Hamilton's army.
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Whiskey Rebellion
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Message telling American that it should avoid unnecessary entanglements - a reflection of the foreign policy of its author.
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Farewell Address
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Agreement signed between two anti-British countires in 1778 that increasingly plagued American foreign policy in the 1790s.
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French-American Alliance
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Political organizations not envisioned in the Constitution and considered dangerous to national unity by most of the Founding Fathers.
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political parties
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The nation with which the United States fought an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800.
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France
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The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
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the bill of rights
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Harsh and probably unconstitutional laws aimed at radical immigrants and Jeffersonian writers.
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alien and sedition acts
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Hamilton's aggressive financial policies of paying off all federal bonds and taking on all debts.
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funding and assumption
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Body organized by the Judiciary Act of 1789 and first headed by John Jay.
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Supreme Court
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Constitutional amendments designed to protect liberties, the last two of which were added by Madison to check federal power and prtect states' rights.
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Bill of rights
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