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22 Cards in this Set
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Bank of the United States (p.208)
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-Proposed by the first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, opened in 1791 and operated until 1811 to issue a uniform currency, make business loans, and collect tax monies.
-The second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816 but was not renewed by President Andrew Jackson twenty years later. |
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Citizen Genet (p.213)
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-1763-1834
-As the Ambassador to the US from the New French Republic, he encouraged Americans privateers to attack British ships, attack Spain's Florida and Louisiana. -His actions and french radicals excessive actions against their enemies in the new French Republic caused the French Revolution to lose support among Americans. |
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Jay's Treaty (p.214)
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-Treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 by Chief Justice John Jay; Britain agreed to vacate forts in the Northwest Territories,and festering disagreements (border with Canada, prewar debts, shipping claims) would be settled by commission.
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Whiskey Rebellion (p.216)
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-Violent protest by western Pennsylvania farmers against the federal excise tax on corn whiskey in 1794.
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XYZ affair (p.223)
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-French foreign minister Tallyrand's three anonymous agents demanded payments to stop French plundering of American ships in 1797; refusal to pay the bribe led to two years of sea war with France (1798-1800).
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Alien and Sedition Acts (p.226)
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-Four measures passed during the undeclared war with France that limited the freedoms of speech and press and restricted the liberty of non-citizens.
-1798 |
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolution (p.227)
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-1789-1799
-Passed in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, the resolutions advanced the state-compact theory that held states could nullify an act of Congress if they deemed it unconstitutional. |
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Stamp Act Crisis
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-1765
-Officials in London needed ot raise money to support all their troops stationed in North America, and believed the colonists should help them. -In England they believed colonists had benefited by getting more land so they should have to pay more taxes. -Taxs on newspapers, legal documents, wills, and playing cards. |
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Quartering Act
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-Required colonial government to supply troops and shelter to British troops on command.
-Colonists strongly disagreeded and didnt want a standing army they wanted militas. |
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Standing Army
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-Army made up of professional, full time soldiers.
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Milita
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-Citizens army, had other professions and would train on the side and could be called into duty when needed.
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The Dominion of New England
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-1686-1689
-Under Sir Edmond Andros all of New England (including NY & NJ) would be combine into one large colony. -Would take away all general assemblies and he would make the rules for the new mega colony. -Taxed the colonies so that most people living there were poor- when this didnt work out the money was returned to the colonists. |
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Sir Edmund Andros
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-Very unpopular Royal Governor who was to rule the Dominion of New England.
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Non-Importation Agreements
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-Would make England drop the new taxes.
-Made the colonists aware of united action against the crown. |
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Townshend Duties 1767
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-Import taxes collected on all imported glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
-Taxes on all goods from within the British Empire. -added enforcements to make smuggling harder. -Part of these taxes would be used to pay Royal Governors. |
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Boston Massacre
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-Citizens got into an argument with British Red Coats, soldiers fired at the unarmed colonists killing 5 of them.
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Boston Tea Party
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-Radicals threw a ship-full of tea into Boston Harbor after the British tried to give the colonists extra tea, which the colonists saw as a political trap and rebelled.
-The acts of the colonists caused England to over-react |
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Coercive Acts (1774)
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1. Boston Port Act- closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the lost tea.
2.Mass. Government Act-allowed Royal Gov. to appoint all local judges and sheriffs. 2a. Closed down all town meetings. 3.Quatering Act- Governor could direct the troops to be housed in private residences. |
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Quebec Act
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-Created new colony in territory British took from the French, included Canada and Ohio River Valley.
-No new representatives in the new colonies they would be run by Royal Governors and his assembly. |
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Continental Congress (1774)
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-the first- all thought English government was being unacceptable.
-2 years later they issued the declaration of independence. |
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Alexander Hamilton (p. 202)
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-Appointed by George Washington to lead the Department of the Treasury.
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Republicans (p. 211)
(aka. Democratic Republicans) |
-After opposing Hamilton's economic program we see the emergence of two political parties.
-Alexander Hamilton emerged as the embodiment of the Federalists; in opposition, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson led those who took the name Republicans and thereby implied that the Federalists aimed at a monarchy. |