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| If the people did not vote to elect the president in the New Govt who did? |
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| State legislators chose electors who voted for president |
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| What did the people trust George Washington not to do? |
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| Once GW was elected what was the first thing he did |
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| selected his cabinet members |
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| Once GW was elected what was the first thing he did |
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| selected his cabinet members |
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11/14
In the formation of the first two parties, who led the federalists |
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| What party was esp affected by the French Revolution yet stayed loyal to the french in its reign of terror |
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| TJ and the Republican party |
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| What was the Federalists opinion of the French Revolution |
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| Thought all of the bloodshed and brutality was unnecessary to have a revolution.(over 30,000 were beheaded) |
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| Who started the revolutionary war against France |
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| What was GB goal in starting the rev war with france |
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| stop the revolution and reimpose monarchy and nobility |
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| What reason did GB fear france's revolution |
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| They were threatened and feared the revolutionary ideals would spread to Gb making it unstable |
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| What were France and GB's views of America during the French revolutionary war? |
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| They thought the US was weak as a country |
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| What did the US continue to do despite the fact that France and GB were at war with each other? |
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| continued sending US ships to France and GB trading with them both |
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| How did both countries react to US trading with enemies? |
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| GB and France began attacking the US merchant vessels. they would steal whatever cargo was being sent to the opposing country to prevent it from being delivered there |
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| Why were France and GB so successful at attacking merchant ships |
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| What did GB do differently from the French in their attacks on the US merchant ships? |
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| Impressment- force them to join forces with GB or be killed |
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| The Dictator of France during the French Revolutionary war |
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| How did US sailors become a part of "his majesty's army" |
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| They were stolen/kidnapped and were not allowed to leave once they were at the ports |
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| What was the ultimatum that the US was given |
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| To only trade with France or GB NOT BOTH |
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| How did GW respond to the Ultimatum |
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| he allows the Americans to be stolen thinking he will be able to get them back later with uses of diplomacy |
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| Y didnt GW just chose one country for the US to support instead of allowing his men to be captured? |
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| He thought the US was not strong enough to fight against either one of the two countries and did not want to risk America loosing the war,so he tried to make both countries get along as best they could |
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| Who was the 2nd President of the United states? what party did he represent |
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| John Adams and the Federalist party |
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| Who was the 2nd President of the United states? what party did he represent |
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| John Adams and the Federalist party |
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| during that time what was the limit on how long someone could hold office |
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| there was no limit, washington was 60 old and tired |
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| what president also had to deal with the French seizing ships and impressment? |
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| John Adams (federalist) favored which country more? y |
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| GB b/c he was a federalist, and b/c of all the bloodshed |
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| What did Adams try to do with the French |
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| make a peace treaty so that the FR would stop seizing so many war ships |
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| Who did Adams send to France to represent the US? who were they suppose to meet up with |
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| three american diplomats including john Marshall who was a lawyer from Richmond went to France to meet with the french foreign minister Tallyran for a peace treaty |
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| what happened instead of the US diplomats meeting with Tallyran? who did they meet up with? what was this called |
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| Tallyran's subordinate employees. Became known as the XYZ affairs. |
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| What did XYZ tell the US diplomats were the only conditions under which Tallran would meet with them |
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| $250,000 gift and a $12 million dollar loan |
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| how did the Amricnas respond to the XYZ affairs? |
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| They felt like it was a diplomatic insult to the US. but not everyne felt this way |
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| how did the Amricnas respond to the XYZ affairs? |
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| They felt like it was a diplomatic insult to the US and were furious. but not everyne felt this way |
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| Who did not want the americans to confront France about the XYZ affairs? what did they want the US to d instead |
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Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans.
He wanted Adams to confront the British instead. |
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| What did Adams do since the situation was too serious to ignore? |
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went to congress asking that and American Navy be built. asked for 50 ships to be built and added to the Navy. In addition 10,000 more soldiers in the Army and some of the 10,000 would be the sailors. Then Congress agreed.
The buildup of ships for war against France began |
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| who began to criticize the “war” against France and y |
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| Jefferson/ Republicans they know America intends to declare war once they get their Navy together. |
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| who allowed the President to violate the 1st amendment to the United States Constitution. The part about the freedom to speech, thoughts, and press. how? |
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| The Adams administration. they were majority federalists who arrested Republicans who wrote editorials in the newspaper that were crucial to the build up of the war on France. |
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| who allowed the President to violate the 1st amendment to the United States Constitution. The part about the freedom to speech, thoughts, and press. how? |
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| The Adams administration. they were majority federalists who arrested Republicans who wrote editorials in the newspaper that were crucial to the build up of the war on France. |
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| How did the french respond to hearing about the americans planning to go to war with them? |
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| they apologized sent diplomats home and promised to leave american ships alone. 1800 |
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| why did Adams and federalist lose the election of 1800 to Jefferson? |
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| they violated the Bill of Rights against the republicans |
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| what did Jefferson want his secretary Lousie to do |
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| Jefferson wanted Louise to go to record and make a record of the trip and the surrounding of the land and the waterways. and draw pics of the animals and wild life there |
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| Jefferson wanted to kno if it were possible to go from where the land starts to the pacific ocean or was the terrain too difficult? |
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| All of the people on the expedition were soldiers except two who were they? |
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| Louis who was jefferson's personal secretary and the girl who was sent to translate with the natives b/c she spoke three diff languages |
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| who was the military captain on the expedition |
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| William Clark the only officer |
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| what was Jefferson's biggest success |
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| Who was president after Jeffeson, author of the constitution and federalist papers ? |
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| James Madison Republican. Republicans still had majority in congress not federalists |
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| Why did madison go to songress asking to declare war against GB? who asked him not to? |
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| The french revolutionary war was still going on and GB was still impressing on America. jefferson |
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| what did GB do to try and prevent US from receiving war supplies? how did the us benefit from france |
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| they blockaded the us with their navy. the fact that Gb was still at war with france themselves, meant they could not fully focus on the US |
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| what land did the US hope to conquer during the war of 1812? |
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| what major landmarks were attacked in the us by GB |
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| wahington Dc the whitehouse and the capital had both been burned down. the madisons had already departed with the pic of GW |
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| no one was winning the War of 1812. Gb and US negotiated a treaty so that the war would end. treaty was signed in Ghent Belgium. |
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| why didnt the soldiers out west know the war was over yet |
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| the treaty had not been signed yet due to a lack of communication. communication was poor and the Battle of New Orleans had just started ironically.jan 1815 |
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| what land did GB try to capture during the war of 1812 but lost |
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11/23
What was the problem with Missouri asking to become a state |
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| they wanted to be a slave state and there were already 12 slave states and 12 free states. power was not to be given to either slave nor free states entirely in congress |
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| what state was allowed to become a state to keep a balance b/t slave and free states? what was this called |
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| Maine the Missouri Compromise |
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| what were the other stipulations of the Missouri compromise |
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| . line drawn 36degress 30 nothing above that line could ever be legal slave territory as a result of the Louisiana purchase, however slavery could spread in whatever was left of south territory that was not already a slave state |
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| what did the govt think the missouri compromise would do to slavery |
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| put an end to the slave problem forever |
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| who founded the American anti slavery society |
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| william loyd garrison in NY |
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| what was the name of the publication Garrison wrote to inform ppl in the north about the horrors of slavery? |
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| what was the name of the publication Garrison wrote to inform ppl in the north about the horrors of slavery? |
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| what was the name of the publication Garrison wrote to inform ppl in the north about the horrors of slavery? |
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| what did the American Anti slavery stand for as oppose to what |
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| immediate and complete end to slaver as oppose to a gradual emancipation. slavery was a sin against God |
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| What slave fleeing abolitionist was influenced by Garrison |
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| Where was douglass prior to fleeing slavery |
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| in maryland a slave who did not know his father but his mother was a slave. master most likely his father. was semi taught to read by his masters wife and self taught the rest after escaping and finding a copy of the liberator. traveled with garrison and taught with him |
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| the revolt against new spain aka mexican revolt |
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| What did the US do to Mexico while Spain was one of the weakest nations? |
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took over some of the mexican territory to enlarge american territory.
California, texas, new mexico, utah and nevada |
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| what questions came up after the US took the mexican territory |
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1.was is immoral for the us to beat up on a weaker country and take their land from them
2. now that this territory was taken from mexico to enlarge the us, will slavery be allowed to spread into any or all of the territory taken from Mexico
3. now that the US is so much larger, isnt it wonderful that we own so much land. |
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| Manifest Destiny (oSullivan) |
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| Its God's will that the US expand all the way westward from pacific to atlantic ocean. US considered superior |
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| american invited to texas promising to become mexican citizens, assimilate to spanish language cultureand join catholic religion NOT practice slavery.....did not formed a rebellion instead |
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The presidential election of 1844
The winner was a Democrat by the name of James K. Polk. His platform; the issues that he stood for and the promises to voters included the following:
Annexation of Texas as a slave state
He wanted to acquire California from Mexico to be apart of the US
He also wanted the Oregon Country.
He wanted it all to become apart of the US
The Oregon country extended beyond and went into Canada.
A believer in Manifest destiny |
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The election of 1848
Dominated by the issue of new Territory and whether or not slavery would be allowed to spread into the new territory.
There was a new political party called the Free Soil Party: slavery should not be able to exist in any of the new territory, the candidate was Martin Van Beuren
The democratic party had an idea to deal with this new territory in relation to Popular Sovereignty (PS)
PS means it will be up to the people that settle into the new territories.
The Whig party decided that they would try to win the election by bringing in Zachary Taylor. They wanted to take advantage of the population of war and he was poplular. |
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| Compromise of 1850 was led by who |
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| Senator Stephen Douglass from Illinois |
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| what were the 4 points of the compromise of 1850? |
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1.admission of cali as a free state
2.PS allowed for the new territories that were taken from mexico
3. public auctions banned in dc but slavery still legal
4.fugitive slave act-allowed slaveholders and their agents to cross into free territory to take their runaways bac |
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