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presidents quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| federalism | delegated, reserved, shared |
| checks and balances | executive, legislative, judicial |
| 1789 judiciary act | An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States |
| george washington | whiskey rebellion, cabinet position, farewell address, hamilton (secretary of treasury) |
| whiskey rebellion | farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation (from hamilton) |
| XYZ affair | a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War |
| hamilton's financial plan | pay off nation's debt (bonds) Protective Tariff, Excise Tax, National Bank, Self Sufficient Economy |
| federalists | loose constructionists, supported by wealthy, merchants and bankers, aristocratic leaderships, creditors, urban life, favored aristocrats in FR, favored britain |
| democrat republicans | strict constructionists, supported by poor, agrarian, common man, debtor class support, small rural communities, favored revolutionaries in FR, favored france |
| alien and sedition acts | tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government suspended by jefferson |
| thomas jefferson | revolution of 1800, "we are all republicans, we are all federalist", agrarian paradise, limited frugal government, strict construction, anti-militarist foreign policy, pragmatism ended naturalization act, excise tax, judiciary act of 1801, gov't cost |
| agrarian paradise | align the American economy more with agriculture than industry |
| pragmatism | dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations |
| what did thomas jefferson keep | louisiana purchase, kept many federalists in government, kept bank, barbary pirate issue, chesapeake-leopard affair |
| barbary pirate issue | the pirates increased the cost of the tribute and Jefferson refused to pay it |
| chesapeake-leopard affair | a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake |
| louisiana purchase | encompassed territory in North America that the United States purchased from France (Napoleon) in 1803 for $15 million consequences: native americans, lewis and clark expedition, doubled the size of country |
| benefits of lewis and clark expedition | established a trade network and expanded the fur trade |
| negatives of lewis and clark expedition | outbreak of smallpox and almost extinction of oxen, trying to "civilize" the native americans |
| marbury v. madision 1803 | established the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional |
| fletcher v. peck 1810 | 1st declaration invalidartiong state law - state could not invalidate contract |
| dartmouth v. woodward 1819 | contract for private corporation could not be altered by state |
| mcculloch v. maryland 1819 | state could not tax federal institution |
| gibbons v. ogden | federal control of interstate commerce |
| embargo act of 1807 | prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports caused wide spread smuggling |
| madison presidency | non-intercourse act 1809, macons bill no. 2 1810, napoleon deception |
| non-intercourse act 1809 | allowed world trade to continue with the expection from britain and france |
| macons bill no. 2 1810 | prohibited British or French warships from entering American harbors or territorial waters |
| napoleon deception | agreed to not attack american merchant ships so america would support france, but then continued to attack anyway |
| war of 1812 | causes: free seas and trade, westeron frontier pressures (british were on western frontier), war hawks opposed to the war: new england federalists and quids british burned white house |
| treaty of ghent | ended the war of 1812 US gained no territory but they won the war |
| consequences of war of 1812 | US respect, acceptance of canada, federalist end, nullification precedent, native americans loss of land, US seld sufficiency, war heroes, US nationalism, western settlement |
| monroe - nationalism | he put the nation on an independent course, no longer tied to the mast of European policy monroe doctrine sphere of influence |
| monroe doctrine | any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US |
| sphere of influence | the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory |
| the age of jackson | lost the election of 1824 (a corrupt bargain) and won the election of 1828 (revolution of 1828) spoils system |
| spoils system | cabinet positions given to friends |
| politics of the common man | more white men the right to vote |
| indian removal act of 1830 (trail of tears) | authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders; a few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy |
| jackson bank veto | declared the bank was unconstitutional |
| growth of industry | 1800 - primarily agrarian 1850 - manufacturing surpasses agriculture in value 1900 - US (world leader in manufacturing) - A surge of technological innovations and inventions |
| manifest destiny | destiny to expand land (God's chosen people - destined to expand) john O'Sullivan |
| hartford convention | a secret meeting in hartford of federalist delegates to discuss grievances of the war of 1812 |
| aroostook war (battle of the maps) | a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine |
| mexican war | rio grande was accepted as the boundary, mexico lost a lot of land to the US (about 40% percent), payed mexico $15m for indemnity/california |
| wilmot proviso | prohibit the extension of slavery |
| calhoun | limiting territorial expansion in order to restrict the number of non-white people who would become US citizens |
| cass/douglas | popular sovereignty |
| missouri compromise 36'30 | any state above 36'30 would be a free state and any state below 36'30 would be slave |
| kansas-nebraska | undid the missouri compromise and made it into popular sovereignty |
| civil war main causes | slavery / economics (industry v. agriculture) - tariff, bank, sale of western land / political power (representation in congress, free v slave states) |
| events that "fan the fire" (civil war) | compromise of 1850 (california (free state), utah (popular sovereignty), assume $10m texas debt, ban D.C. slave trade, fugitive slave act), kansas-nebraska, dred scott decision, john brown raid, election of abraham lincoln |
| dred scott decision | enslaved people were not citizens of the US (5th amendment (property)) |
| more issues with civil war | freeport doctrine, underground railroad, uncle tom's cabin, sumner-brooks (brooks beat sumner with a cane for saying that slavery is bad) |
| freeport doctrine | caused the South to demand a Federal Slave Code |
| (antebellum period) religion | second great awakening, revivalism, baptists and methodists, millennialism, mormons |
| (antebellum period) transcendentalists | did not like the industrial age, wanted to grow own food and se self-reliant |
| (antebellum period) temperance | movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor (not successful) |
| (antebellum period) prisons | dorothy dix believed that there should be a better way to house the prisoners and was horrified when she visited one she started reform movements |
| (antebellum period) public education | every student must be educationed (free schooling supported by taxes) |
| 14th amendment | freed slavery (abolitionism) |
| 19th amendment | women the right to vote |
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