Alien and Sedition Acts

a powerful national government with expansive controls over the economy. After his election in 1801, Thomas Jefferson, to a large extent, altered his earlier philosophy as he took upon Federalist actions by purchasing Louisiana, passing the Embargo Act and going to war with the Barbary States. The United States Constitution was written by James Madison on September 17, 1787 to replaced the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United states which the national government was…

full name is An Act regulating passenger ships and vessels. The act demanded that ships must have list of all passengers with information regarding the district collector. When the act was passed Europe were entering peace after many wars. The United States were also becoming a somewhat better nation. Immigration was increasing at this time period and people became concerned. The act included a two year residency requirement for aliens. This increase to fourteen years by the sedition act and…

Economic: 1790- 1860* In 1790 to 1860, there were plenty of treaties, acts, and battles going on. In 1794, President George Washington sent John Jay to London, to avoid war with Britain. John Jay had to negotiate with the British to remove their forts from the U.S soil, including their troops, and to stop supplying weapons to Indians. This was known as the Jay Treaty. After the negotiation, the British still maintained trading posts on U.S soil and sold firearms to Indians. The British told the…

the nation. Adams had great expectations yet received much opposition from Americans. Under his administration, he put the nation in foreign countries business and passed controversial and unconstitutional acts. He also led an undeclared war with France (eventually gaining peace). Unfortunately, he did not succeed in continuing the legend of Washington and gaining much public support,…

that came into Congress was in 1789. 1789 Congress set up three departments of the executive branch. Disagreements arose between those favoring uniforms, national legal systems and those favoring state courts. They reached compromise in the Judicial Act of 1789. 1790 Hamilton proposed the government pay off millions of dollars owed by the Confederation to other countries and American citizens. 1791, the 10 amendments were added to the Constitution and became known as the Bill of Rights. The…

his neutral stance in the French-British conflict and also because of the Alien and Sedition Acts. The house of Representatives chose the president after 6 days and 36 ballots were casted, Jefferson was elected President, during his inaugural address Jefferson tried to ease the nation’s fears of a Republican government by saying “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” 1801-The Judiciary Act In the Judiciary Act of 1801 the number of federal courts, judgeships, clerks and marshals,…

However, in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson and Madison wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which spoke out against the Federalist Government. In these resolutions the duo claimed that the federal government had too much power, and that it (the power) must be returned…

Jefferson first started with reversing several Federalist policies in favor of the Republicans. He labeled the Alien and Sedition Acts as political and unconstitutional. Instead of repealing the acts, Jefferson let the Alien and Sedition Acts expire to avoid the Federalists’ opposition. Jefferson then amended the Naturalization Act to allow resident aliens to become citizens after five years, which was the original waiting period. He abolished all internal taxes imposed by the Federalists…

The Red Scare:1920 The Red Scare of 1920, starting in the middle of the first world war and ending about three years after. It was the wide spread panic across America, the fear of communism mixed with political racism. The Red Scare started from different causes, including the Bolshevik Revolution and World War one, the growing fear of immigration, radical and the socialist party, many different people played large and important roles. Another main cause is the Bolshevik revolution. The…

Nullification was enforced throughout the history of the United States in various places. Nullification gave states specific right to nullify the laws enforced by the federal government. Events such as The Compact Theory, Hartford convention were extremely important in contributing to today’s government laws. The Compact Theory was a law set among states towards the federation in which there will exist a government for common defense of every state. There will be regulation of commerce between…