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| Why didn't John Adams get reelected? |
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| Because everybody was mad about the Sedition part of the Alien and Sedition Acts |
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| Is the U.S. bicameral? Why or why not? |
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| Yes, because the Great Comprimise decided to split the congress into the Senate and the House of Reps. ( two chambers) |
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| What laws were passed during the Adams administration? |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts |
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| Who started the Federalist party? |
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| Alexander Hamilton, not John Adams |
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| What has been used by Congress to make laws about things not specifically mentioned in the Constitution? |
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| Who published the Federalist Papers? |
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| Madision, Hamilton, and John Jay |
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| What was the pen name that was used for the Federalist Papers? |
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| What is the Federal Party? |
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| a political party founded by Alexander Hamilton and dedicated to the idea that the federal government should be stronger than state governments |
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| What is the Elastic Clause? |
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| the part of the original Constitution that says that Congress can make "all laws necessary and proper" to take care of bussiness |
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| What does bicameral mean? |
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| a legislature split into two"houses" |
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| Who was the Americas named after? |
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| to say bad things about the government in an attempt to hurt it |
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| a scandal in 1798 during the John Adams administration. France was bothering and ripping off our ships at sea. Adams sent several diplomats to France to negotiate. The French government refused to see them, then, in the dark of night, three French agents visited our diplomats and demanded a $250,000 bribe for our people to meet with theirs. Our diplomats refused and when Adams and America heard, we almost went to war with France. In the end, France agreed to stop bothering our ships. |
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| ADMINISTRATION is a term used to refer to... |
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| the time that a president is in power. For example, this is the Obama administration. The Civil War happened during the Lincoln administration, etc. |
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| Marbury vs. ________ was a Supreme Court case that happened in ________. |
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| Marbury vs. Madison, 1803 |
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| Explain what Marbury vs. Madison was. |
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| Jefferson beat John Adams in the presidential election. Adams was mad and at the very end of his administration made a bunch of "midnight appointments" of Federalist judges that he knew Jefferson would hate. One of these appointments was a job for a guy named William Marbury. Adams gave the appointments to his Secretary of State (John Marshall) to deliver to the people who got the jobs. Marshall forgot to deliver them, and the new president (Jefferson) told his new Secretary of State not to deliver them. Marbury sued. |
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| What was the result of the Marbury vs. Madison lawsuit? |
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| It went to the Supreme Court because of a law Congress passed. The Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, so the law disappeared in a puff of green smoke. This new power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional is called Judicial Review. Marbury never got the job. |
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