Problem Solving

Hamilton offer to the south

Moving the capital from NYC to a new city in the south

Pinckneys Treaty

Created the boundary (31st parallel) between Spain and U.S. also allowed Americans to use the Port of New Orleans without paying a fee. 

Genets purpose for coming to America 

French diplomat who was sent to America to gain their support for the French to fight Britain.

Presidential Powers under the Alien Act 

Raised the residency requirement for citizenship from 5 years to 14 years and allowed the president to deport or jail any alien. 

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Created to oppose the Alien and Sedition Act

XYZ Affair

Created an anti-French sentiment in America and people started to stop listening to French music.

U.S. involvement in war with France and Britain

Neutrality - not support either side - not Britain or France

Whiskey Rebellion

He sent troops to show they had to follow the law 

Winner of the Election of 1796 

John Adams 

Reason for creating a cabinet

To help advise the president

Precedent

example

Tariff

a tax on imported goods

Judiciary Act of 1789

a law that created the federal court system, set the number of supreme courts justices, and allowed some state cases to be appealed to federal courts. 

Sectionalism

when people care more about their own region or part of a country than about the country as a whole

Federalists [ HAMILTON ADAMS]

[UPPER CLASS] wanted a strong national government to keep the country united and stable, believed this would help with things like trade, defense, and making sure the country’s laws were fair and clear.

Democratic - Republicans [JEFFERSON MADISON]

[LOWER CLASS] wanted more power for the states and less for the national government, believed in protecting individual freedoms and thought farmers and common people should have more say in government.

Department of State 

dealt with foreign affairs [ THOMAS JEFFERSON]

Department of War 

Military matters [HENRY KNOX] 

Department of Treasury

To manage finances [ALEXANDER HUMILIATION]

Elastic clause

part of the U.S. Constitution that allows Congress to make new laws that are "necessary and proper" for carrying out its listed powers, even if the Constitution doesn't specifically mention that law

Nullification

A refusal to take park in a war between other nations

Sedition Act

a law that made it a crime to say or write things that were considered "false, scandalous, or malicious" against the U.S. government or its leaders

John jay 

First chief justice of the Supreme Court 

Little Turtle

Native American military leader