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| Why were the Articles of Confederation so weak? |
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| By design/on purpose because of the history with the British |
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| The Articles are an ancestor to...? |
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| What was a major issue with the Articles? |
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| Defeated the purpose of unifying the colonies |
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| In 1775, what did the colonists organize? |
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| Who was appointed as general in 1775? |
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| By 1777, how many colonies had written new constitutions? |
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| What did the conservatives favor? The liberals? |
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| Conservatives favored law and order & wanted to keep status quo. Liberals sought protection from tyranny and sought to change status quo. |
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| Four characteristics of new state constitutions? |
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| List of rights, separation of powers, voting, office-holding |
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| How long did the Articles last? |
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| Land Orinance of 1785? How were the streets/towns designed? |
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| establishe a public policy for western land with a public education focus. Streets/towns designed on a grid system. |
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| NW Land Ordinance of 1787? |
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| Granted limited self-government to the developing territory an prohibite slavery |
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| Financial problems of the Articles? |
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| War debt (foreign and domestic), paper money (what will give it value?), no taxation powers. |
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| Flaw with taxation in the Articles? |
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| Nat'l gov't couldn't tax, but states could |
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| Foreign issues with the Articles? |
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| credibility with Europe, British retention of forts in the NW, Spain's holding of New Orleans |
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| Name four structural issues with the Articles. |
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| No separate executive, one vote per state, no federal courts, no power to tax |
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| Domestic problems with the Articles? |
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| Shays' Rebellion, states taxed each other's goods, no nat'l currency |
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| Year and place of Constitutional Convention? |
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| Who wrote the Virginia Plan? What did it call for? What did it want to base representation on? |
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| James Madison. Three separate branches of gov't - executive, two-house legislature, federal court system. State's population. |
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| Who wrote the New Jersey Plan? What was it a counter proposal to? What did it propose? |
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| James Patterson. Virginia Plan. One-house legislature in which each state would have the same number of votes. |
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| What did the Great Compromise create? |
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| Bicameral Congress. Senate (New Jersey) and House of Reps (Virginia) |
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| Southerners wanted to count slaves as population to determine representation -- compromised that slaves would be 3/5 of one person. |
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| Congress was forbiden to tax a state's exports/take action against what trade and for how long? |
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| Who wrote the Federalist papers? |
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| James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay. |
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| Name the major difference between the Federalists & the Anti-federalists? |
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| Federalists- want to strengthen nat'l gov't. Anti-federalist- want to strengthen the people. |
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| How was the federal court system created? |
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| by the Judiciary Act of 1789. |
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| First law passed by Congress? |
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| What did Hamilton's financial plan want to do? |
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| Pay off nat'l debt and make the states pay off their own debt; protect growing industries and place tariffs on imported goods; crate a nat'l bank. |
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| Origin of political parties? |
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| Hamilton's financial plan |
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| An excise tax was placed on what product during Washington's presidency and why? |
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| Whiskey; it made up for the lower tariffs than Hamilton desired |
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| What is the number one problem that America must deal with even after it happened? |
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| What happened with the Jay Treaty of 1794? |
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| British finally agrees to leave the American forts |
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| What prcolmation was difficult for America to maintain? |
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| Proclamation of Neutrality 1793 |
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| What did the Pinckney Treaty guarantee? What year? What European country did it involve? |
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| Navigation rights up the Miss. River for the Americans. 1795. Spain. |
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| Who did the whiskey tax affect the most? What year was the Whiskey Rebellion? |
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| Western (Appalachian) farmers. 1794. |
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| Politically speaking, New England was largely...? |
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| New states added during Washington's presidency? |
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| Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee |
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| Who do the Federalists support? the anti-Federalists? |
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| Politically, the South largely was...? |
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| Who was the prominent figure in the Anti-Federalist party? |
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| The Federalist party begins to fade away during whose presidency? |
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| What were the Alien and Sedition Acts? What was the counter proposal to them? Who wrote them? |
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| Changed number of yrs to become a citizen from 5 to 14; critics of the gov't could be deported; criticism of the gov't in newspapers was illegal. Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions. Jefferson-Kentucky. Madison-Virginia. |
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| The first time a different political party was in the White House was when who was elected? |
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| The Age of Jefferson was not a...? How long did it last? |
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| Not a smooth transition. 1800-1816. |
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| Effects of the Louisiana Purchase? |
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| Size of nation doubled, never had to worry about port of New Orleans |
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| Marbury v. Madison occurred in what year? What did it establish? |
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| Aaron Burr is the VP of? Aside from murder, what is he tried for and why? |
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| Thomas Jefferson. Treason. Tried to convince different sections of the nation to secede and let him be their leader. |
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| Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 put in effect? What happened? |
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| Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. Wanted to hurt European countries' economies but it backfired severely. |
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| What was the Chesapeake-Leopard affair? |
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| HMS Leopard, British ship, kidnapped Americans off of the USS Chesapeake to get manpower to fight against the French. |
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