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US Goal 1.01
Question | Answer |
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President who retired after 2 terms & set the precedent for future presidents to do the same | George Washington |
The first chief justice of the Supreme Court | John Jay |
The 1st Secretary of the Treasury whose financial plan included the creation of a national bank | Alexander Hamilton |
The name given to the group of close advisors to the President. Every president since Washington has had one. | Cabinet |
Issues that are concerns that take place withint the borders of the country...like Hurricane Katrina, the Healthcare debate | Domestic |
Created the federal Court System | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
1st 10 amendments to the Constitution - protections of individual rights | the Bill of Rights |
A tax on imports; Southerners and all farmers usually opposed them because they caused them to lose income | Tariff |
Event which set the precedent that the federal government would not stand for its citizens to be in open rebellion against the government. | The Whiskey Rebellion |
Powers of Congress specifically written in the constitution - sticking to these powers means the government has limited power | enumerated powers |
Powers allowed by the "elastic clause." Powers are not specifically listed in the Constitution. Gives the government more power. | implied powers |
government can only do the things allowed by the constitution | Strict interpretation |
belief that farmers who owned land were good for democracy | Agrarianism |
the right to vote | suffrage |
group of voters with similar ideas | political parties |
1st 2 political parties in US History | Federalists & Democratic republicans |
agreement with Spain - Access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans | Pinckney's Treaty |
Laws passed to limit voting rights of immigrants and to hurt the power of the democratic republicans | Alien & Sedition Acts |
requires separate electoral college votes for president and vice president | 12th amendment |
judicial review | Marbury v. Madison, 1803 |
New England Federalists who threatened to seceede from the Union after the Louisiana purchase | Essex Junto |
tribute | bribe |
Chesapeake Affair | 3 Americans were killed when the British tried to impress them (kidnapped) |
Led by Henry Clay & John C. Calhoun | War Hawks |
arranged a US naval fleet on the Great Lakes | Oliver Perry |
Shawnee leader involved in fighting the US in the war of 1812 | Tecumseh |
extreme pride in one's nation | nationalism |
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
Last battle of the war of 1812 - took place after the peace treaty was signed | Battle of New Orleans |
Treaty that ended the War of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |
Agreement with England - got "most favored nation" status | Jay's Treaty |
Corps of Discovery | The Lewis & Clark expedition |
Doubled the size of the US | Louisiana Purchase |
Chief justice who gave the Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional (judicial review) | John Marshall |
3 French agents tried to bribe American diplomats | XYZ Affair |
Country the US fought the Quasi War with | France |
Saved the portrait of George Washington when the British burned down the White House | Dolly Madison |
Writer of the Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key |
Ban on trade with a specific country | embargo |