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us history final exa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| why did federalists have more support than the anitfeds? | they wanted to get the country out of debt |
| Articles of confederation | made up of congress and delagates chosen by state legislatures each state had 1 vote no president |
| what powers did the articles of confederation have? what powers didnt they have | declare war negotiate peace and all 13 states had to agree to changes they couldnt levy taxes |
| land ordinance of 1785 | divided the territory into townships |
| Federalists | George Washington James Madison Alexander Hamilton |
| Antifederalist | Sam Adams John Hancock Patrick Henry |
| What did Federalist support? | Strong central gov supported the constitution |
| What did the Antifederalists support? | Need strong state gov opposed the constitution. |
| Federalism | sharing of power between state and national gov |
| Sedition act | it was a crime for citizens to publicly critisize the federal gov |
| Alien Act | Authorized the president to deport and arrest immagrants who criticized the federal gov |
| Joseph smith | founded the church of jesus christ (mormans) |
| Henry David Thoreau | was a transcendalist that was jailed after refusing to pay taxes |
| Horace Mann | Helped create free pubic schools |
| dorthea dix | saw people put in jail because they had mental illness and saw the conditions of the jails and wanted to change tht |
| Neal Dow | became mayor in Maine and helped pass the maine laws which restricted the sale of alcohol |
| American Colonization Society | encouraged free blacks to move back to africa |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Became leading abolitonist |
| Agelina and Sarah Grimke | daughters of a Southerner Slave holder tht moved north to join the abolition movement |
| Fredrick Douglass | Former slave who lectured against slavery |