The Early Republic

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What are the 5 issues Washington phased?
Dept.
lack of guidelines
Spain closing new Orleans (port to the Mississippi closed)
Tiny Army
British keeping forts in American territory
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When was Washington inaugurated?
April 30, 1789
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What was Washington's most important legacy?
he understood how much a new nation was depending on him to set a precedent (a standard)
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What does the constitution call for?
one supreme court while leaving congress in charge of organizing the lower federal courts
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Who was the first chief justice of the Supreme court?
John Jay
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Who created the first presidential cabinet?
George Washington
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What is a cabinet?
an advisory body made up of the heads of the executive departments that are appointed by the president
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What was the secretary of state?
Thomas Jefferson - foreign policy
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Who was the secretary of treasury?
Alexander Hamilton - nations finances
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Who was the secretary of war?
Henry Knox
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Who was the Attorney general?
Edmund Randolph
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What were Hamilton's views?
strong central government & army was needed
an agricultural economy was backward
the U.S. should be industrialized
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What did the USA agree to do relating to dept.?
they agreed to pay all federal and state debts
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What was the 1st step to paying all the dept.?
fully pay all federal and state debt.
bonds were issued
Hamilton wanted to prove to the people here & abroad that the united states would honor its debt in full
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What was the 2nd step?
Make a national bank
-many states still printed their own money
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What did the establishment of a national bank enable the government to do?
it enabled the government to deposit money in safe place and print a national currency
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What was step 3?
More taxes!
-the only way for the government to make money yay taxes
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Who was not pleased with Hamilton's plan?
the south
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What was the agreement between Hamilton and the south?
moved the capital to the south from nyc to dc aka Virginia
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Why did the whiskey rebellion happen?
farmers in western PA are upset because of the tax on Whiskey
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What did the whiskey rebellion prove?
it showed the new government was working
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What were the two parties?
Democratic-Republicans & Federalist
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Who were Democratic-Republicans led by?
Thomas Jefferson & James Maddison
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Who were the Federalists led by?
Hamilton & John Adams
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What did Democratic-Republicans support?
State government
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What did Federalist support?
Central government
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What example did Washington set?
broke the cycle by establishing the concept of two terms and your out of the presidency
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The Election of 1800
John Adams was up for re-election against his own vice president Thomas Jefferson
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What was significant about Jefferson's election?
first win for the Democratic-Republicans
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What is the 12th amendment? and why did they make it?
the vice president is not the loser since that didn't go too well for certain someone
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What did Marbury vs. Madison establish?
judicial review
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What is Judicial review?
the authority of the supreme court to strike down unconstitutional laws
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who was the Haitian revolution led by?
Toussaint L'Overture
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Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson and Napolean make a deal one buy one sell yaya we got more land doubles our land woohoo and its illegal but yk ignore that part ok now Louisiana territory outs hip hip horrey
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Who was the forth president?
James Madison
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who was the war of 1812 between?
a young United States and Britain
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Who are the war hawks?
people starting to push for war
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Who declared war on who in 1812?
In the spring of 1812 congress declared was on Britain
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Who was Britain also fight at this time?
They were fighting the USA and also France at the same time
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What happened during the invasion of Canada?
Americans troops are defeated in Canada, Detroit is captured
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What did General William Henry Harrison do?
He pushed back the British into Canada and reclaimed Detroit
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What group allied themselves with the British during the war of 1812?
Native Americans
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Who forced Natives to give up acres of land?
Andrew Jackson
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What allowed the British to send more troops to America?
The British had finally defeated Napoleon
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What happened when the British invaded Washington?
DC was burned to the ground, the White House & capitol were both destroyed
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What was the US's response to the burning of DC
They burned the Canadian government building
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How did the war end?
The British were tired from all the fighting so talks of peace began and on Christmas eve 1814 the two sides signed a treaty ending the war
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What treaty ended the war of 1812
the Treaty of Ghent
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What was the Industrial Revolution?
it was an increase in production brought about by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy sources
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Who was President #5?
James Monroe
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What was the era of Monroe's presidency called?
The Era of Good feeling aka post-war of 1812
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What did Monroe do in his presidency?
Established a doctrine which prevented Europe from colonizing North and South America
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What president is responsible for acquiring Florida from the Spanish
Andrew Jackson
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What happened in the election on 1824?
four canidates ran for president and none won the majority in electoral votes, so by law the house of representatives votes and decides outcome
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What is the Corrupt Bargain?
When Adams promised Henry Clay that he would make him the secratory of state so Clay voted Adams and he became president while Jackson no like this cuz he won popular vote
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What happened in the election of 1828?
Jackson wins and becomes president #7 and picks his own cabinet something about spoils system
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What was the trail of tears?
natives lived in nice land, people want, Indian removal act by Jackson, Orders to remove natives from land east of the Mississppi and relocate to Okalahoma
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SC theatens to cecede
AhHH they leave jackson no like no no no
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What political party came from the Bank war?
whigs
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Who were the Whigs?
supporters of the bank by henry clay
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What is Manifest Destiny?
from sea to shining sea America was destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy, capitalism, and freedom across the entire North American continent