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Which of the folling positions was not apart of Wasington's Cabinet?
Definition
The only positions were:
Department of state (Thomas Jefferson)
Departement of treasury (A. Hamilton)
Attorney Genereal (Edmund Randolph)
Term
Hamilton proposed to raise revenues for the new govt in all of the following ways except?
Definition
Proposed to raise revenues by creating a budget, a funded debt, a federal tax system, a national bank, a customs service, and a coast gaurd.
Term
Madison and Jefferson objected to the national bank because?
Definition
Madison objected saying Hamilton could find no basis in the constitution for a national bank.
Jefferson pointed to the 10th admendment saying a bank may be convient in aidind congress in collecting taxes and regulating currency, but IT WAS NOT NECESSARY.
Term
To gain Jefferson's support over the federal assumption of state debts, Hamilton proposed?
Definition
The Compromise of 1790
Term
The Republicans.
-Who were they
-Who led them
-What did they belive
Definition
Led by J. Madison and T. Jefferson. Madison was the leader of them in congress.
They opposed everything Hamilton stood for.
Jefferson : was for a diversified capitalist economy w/ agriculture balanced by commerce and industry. He feared Tyranny and loved liberty and wanted to preserve a decentralized agrarian republic. His ideal america was where small farmers predominated: he did not oppose all forms of manufacturing but feared that the unlimited expansion of commerce and industry would produce large a class of propertyless wage laborers dependent upon others for their livelihood.
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Edmong Genet.
-What's he doing in America?
-What's important about him?
Definition
Welcomed to U.S. by Washington, b/c of Jeffersons arguement that U.S. should recognize new French Govt. He was Frances new ambassador. He outfitted privateers to capture British ships and conspired w/ frontiersmen and land speculators to launch an attack on spanish Florida and lousiana in retialiation for the spanish monarchys opposition to the French revolution. Became an embarassment to republican friends and the cabinet decided he had to go so washington gave him the boot. Jefferson and others still supported him and jeff resigned as secretary of state b/c he was in digust at the decision for the boot.
Term
When did the whiskey rebellion end?
Definition
After an Army of 13,000 soldiers under the command of General Henry Lee captured 20 rebels and carried them to jail, where one died and 2 were sentenced to hanging.
Term
The French Revolution and its reign of terror?
Definition
Started in 1789, France was in war w/ Austria and prussia and in the terro of 1793-1794 thousands of French aristocrats were killed. French Revo also transformed international relations and set in motion a series of compolex European alliances and prolonged wars.
Term
The virginia and Kentucky resolutions argued that?
Definition
Since the constitution arose as a compact among the states, the states retained the right to say when congress had exceded its powers. The states could interpose their judgement on acts of congress and "Nullify" them if necessary.
Term
The virginia and Kentucky resolutions were written in response to?
Definition
The "reign of witches" unleashed by the Alien and Sediton acts.
Term
Jefferson's election of 1800?
Definition
He became the target of verbal abuse. opponents named him an athiest and a supporter of the excess of the French Revo. He was portrayed as a friend to farmers and a champion of states rights, frugal govt, liberty, and peace.
Term
In the case of Marbury Vs. Madison?
Definition
The Midnight appoints made by Pres. Adams made just before he left office sparked this case in 1803. Adams had signed Marburys official appointment 2 days before he left office and when James Madison became secretary of state Pres. jefferson directed him to withold it. Marbury then sued for a court order directing Madsion to deliver hiscommision. Chief justice John Marshall wrote the courts opinion. He wrote that Marbury deserved his comission but denied that the court had jurisdiction in the case. The court therefore could issue no order in the case.
Term
The Lousiana purchase was a problem for Jefferson Because?
Definition
The Constitution did not mention the purchase of territory anywhere in it. Jefferson suggested a constitutional amendment but it was argued againts. They reasoned that the power to purchase territory resided in the power to make treaties.
Term
Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with?
Definition
Aaron Burr, a prominent New Yorker
Term
Who was tried for treason for his vague intrigues concerning the Lousiana territory?
Definition
Aaron Burr
Term
The Embargo Act of 1807?
Definition
(Made by Jefferson) Stopped all exports of american goods and prohibited American ships from leaving for foreign ports. Ended imports since it was unprofitable for foreign ships to return from america empty. The constitutional basis of this was the power to regulate commerce, which republicans interpreted as the power to prohibit commerce. This failed from the beginning because few americans were willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
Term
The greatest support for a declaration of war in 1812 came from?
Definition
James Madison
Term
The greatest humiliation to the United States during the war of 1812 occurred when the British?
Definition
Captured Washington D.C. and then burned it down.
Term
At the Hartford Convention, delegates from New England states?
Definition
Proposed seven constitutional amendments
Term
What major battle was won by the U.S. two weeks after a peace treaty was signed?
Definition
War of 1812
Term
The British attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry?
Definition
Term
The Tarriff of 1816?
Definition
supported by England, opposed by the south. Firts intended to protect industry againts foreign competition than to raise revenue.
Term
John C. Calhoun, of SC, voted for the tarriff of 1816 because he?
Definition
hoped that the south might itself become a manufacturing center.
Term
Whose presidential administration was characterized as the "Era of Good Feelings"?
Definition
James Monroe
Term
The Missouri Compromise did all of the following except?
Definition
prohibited the transport of more slaves into missouri. Provided freedom at age 25 to those slaves already born after the territory's admission as a state. admitted maine as a free state and missouri as a slave state. excluded slavery from the rest of the lousiana purchase north ofo 36 30 missouris southern border.
Term
The Missouri Compromise?
Definition
was proposed by representative James Talimadge Jr. a NY congressman.
Term
"South Carolina Exposition and Protest" was published in response to?
Definition
The new tarrif of 1828.
Term
The Rush-Bagot agreement?
Definition
Term
When Andrew Jackson invaded Florida to Fight the Seminoles in 1817, the territory belonged to?
Definition
the spanish
Term
In the case of McCullough v. Maryland, the supreme court?
Definition
Upheld the "implied powers" of congress to charter the Bank of the U.S. and denied the state of Marylands attempt to tax it.
Term
The Monroe Doctrine stated that?
Definition
The american continents were not to be considered as subjects for future colinization by an europen powers. That the political system of Euro powers was diff from that of the U.S. That the U.S. would not intefere with existing Euro controlled colonies. That the U.S. would keep out of internal affairs of Euronations and their wars.
Term
Andrew Jacksons soldiers nicknamed him?
Definition
Old hickory, b/c of the qualities he thought needed to be a man.
Term
As a result of the Eaton Affair, president Jackson?
Definition
He linked Calhoun to what he called a conspiracy againts peggy and drew closer to Van Buren.
Term
How many states joined South Carolina in nullyfying the Tarrif Acts of 1828 & 1832
Definition
Term
In the case of Cherokee Nation V. Georgia, the supreme court?
Definition
John Marchall ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction. Cherokees were a domestic dependent nation. he said they had a unquestionable right to their land tho.
Term
The one thing that united all members of the new Whig party was opposition to?
Definition
Their histility towards Jackson and his stand on the bank, indian removal, hard money, or internal improvments.
Term
Nicholas Biddle?
-Who was he?
-What did he do?
Definition
Of Philly was succesor to langhdon cheeves in derictor of the bank
Term
Pet Banks were?
Definition
State banks that held the benefit of federal deposits.
Term
The "Force Bill" of 1833 was?
Definition
requested by the president to use the army to compel compliance with federal law in S.C.
Term
Martin Van Buren was a descendent of what ethnic group?
Definition
The Dutch
Term
The cotton Gin was invented?
Definition
In 1793 by Eli whitney, a graduate of Yale
Term
The Preemptive Act of 1830?
Definition
responded to land mania. squatters could stake out claims ahead of land surveys and later get 160 acres at the minimum price of $1.25 an acre.
Term
The Erie Canal is located in?
Definition
New York
Term
Clipper ships?
Definition
doubled the speed of older merchant vessels. prompted by the want for chinese tee, coveted in america but was scarce. and discovery of gold in Cali.
Term
Jefferson's embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812?
Definition
main cause of war was violation of shipping rights.
Term
Early factory workers at Lowell were?
Definition
mostly Women from new england who had given up idea of marriage. minimumally skilled and later supplanted by young irish immigrants.
Term
The largest group of immigrants living in the Americas in 1860 were the?
Definition
The irish
Term
The Know-nothing party?
Definition
American party, pledged not to vote for foreign born or catholic candidate when asked about paryty they said "I know nothing"
Term
In the case of Commonwealth Vs. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that?
Definition
forming a trade union was not in itself illegal, nor was a demand that employers hire only members of the union.
Term
The Locofocos were?
Definition
Supporters of Labor parties which faded so many of their supporters found their way into a radical wing of the Jacksonian democrats in 1835. produced candles lighting them with the matches called locosfocos when their opponents shut off the gaslights at one of their meetings at Tammany Hall.
Term
God "had planned the universe, built it, set it in motion, and then left it to its own fate." Which of the following emphasized this image of God?
Definition
Deism
Term
Which of the following religious movements attracted mainly workers and poor people?
Definition
The Second Great Awakening
Term
Transcendentalism?
Definition
public group of intellectuals from New england. Had close affinity with the quaker doctrine of inner light. meetings about philosophy, lit, and religion.
Term
Who Wrote "Moby Dick"
Definition
The Locosfocos
Term
The master of Gothic horror in the short story was?
Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
By the late 1840's America had more newspapers than?
Definition
Any other nation in the world
Term
Horace Mann?
Definition
Led drive for state wide school systems. sheparded a bill that created a state board of education. defended public school system.
Term
Most of the colleges and universities founded in the 1830's?
Definition
Almost all were affiliated with a christian denomination
Term
The oneida Community?
Definition
Founded by John Humphrey noyes. Practiced complex marriages; any 2 ppl could have sexual relations as long as it was consensual.
Term
Ralph Waldo Emerson supported which Utopian community?
Definition
Brook Farm in Massachusetts
Term
The Creole incident?
Definition
135 slaves on the "Creole" to be sold in New orleans, mutinied and sailed to the bahamas where the british set them free. Secretary of state webster demanded the slaves be returned as american property but the british refused. Dispute was settled in 1853 when england paid 110,00 dollars to the owners of the freed slaves
Term
John A. Sutter?
Definition
A trader who found his way to california. Built an enormous enclosure that gaurded an entire village of settlers and shops. became a magnet for americans bent on settling the sacremento country.
Term
Indian Attacks on western wagon trains?
Definition
Rarely happened. Either were let through or the indians demanded payment from them. indians gave generous aid and served as guides and traders.
Term
The Battle of the Alamo?
Definition
Won by Santa Anna's troops, who demanded the alamos defenders surrender. Only survivors were 16 women children and survents.
Term
At the Battle of San Jacinto?
Definition
Mexicans were then defeated by Sam Houstons force in 1836
Term
The phrase "fifty-four forty or fight" refers to?
Definition
James K. Polk's plan was to claim and go to war over the entire territory for the United States.
Term
Which of the following strongly supported the Mexcian war?
Definition
Ulysses S grant, or president and congress, or polk
Term
The American Capture of Mexico City was led by?
Definition
Zachary Taylor
Term
All of the following statements about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are true except?
Definition
The treaty called for Mexico to cede the land comprising the present-day states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming in exchange for a payment of $15 million. In addition, Mexico was to relinquish all claims to Texas and recognize the Rio Grande as the border.

Other articles of the treaty called for the protection of Mexican citizens' property and civil rights within the newly acquired territories, agreement on the part of the United States to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government, and the compulsory arbitration of future disputes between the two nations.
Term
Manifest Destiny?
Definition
O'Sullivan was expressing the long held belief that white Americans had a God-given right to occupy the entire North American continent. It was not a new idea, nor was it historically confined to America. Manifest Destiny as a concept was exercised in 1492 by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish monarchs who initially sanctioned the colonisation of South America. It was also exercised by the Pilgrim Fathers when they landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, by the British when they colonised Australia and India. Indeed, any act of colonisation and settlement at the expense of another race can be said to be an expression of Manifest Destiny.
Term
How many slaves had to be owned to be called a planter?
Definition
Minimun of 20
Term
Which of the following was not one of the three 'lazy' diseases?
Definition
Hookworm, malaria, and pellagra were the 3 lazy diseases.
Term
Nat Turner's rebellion occurred in which state?
Definition
Virginia (rural)
Term
What new country in Africa was bought and created by the American Colonization Society?
Definition
Liberia
Term
What did Garrison have to say about the American Constitution?
Definition
something pertaining to slavery. be/c he was againts it.
Term
What was the anti-slavery newspaper established by Frederick Douglass?
Definition
Liberator
Term
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Definition
(David Wilmot) NO slavey in new territory obtained from mexico.
Term
Popular Sovereignty was first proposed by whom?
Definition
Lewis Cass
Term
What Illinois Senator Saved the Compromise of 1850?
Definition
Henry Clay
Term
What Act in Congress repealed the prohibtion of Slavery north of the Missouri Compromise Line?
Definition
An extension on the compromise
Term
The 'Sack of Lawrence' occurred where and who did the sacking?
Definition
In Kansas
Term
Who carried out the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Definition
John Brown, a free soiler (his sons and three other men also)
Term
Who beat Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate Floor?
Definition
Preston Brooks
Term
Dr scott claimed freedom in the courts based on, what?
Definition
Claimed that residence in illinois and the wisconsin territory had made them free
Term
Between late 1857 and 1858, how many times did citizens of Kansas vote on a constitution?
Definition
3 times
Term
What was Douglas's Freeport Doctrine?
Definition
His answer to Lincolns question on how he could reconcile popular sovereighnt with the Dred Scott ruling that citizens had the right to carry slaves into any territory.
Term
John Brown Seized the federal arsenal at what location?
Definition
Harpers Ferry, V.A.
Term
Which of the following was not a presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
Definition
The candidates were Lincoln, Stephen S douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and JOhn Bell.
Term
The first state to secede from the union was?
Definition
South Carolina
Term
What was the name of the ship that Presidnt Buchanan sent to reinforce Ft. Sumter?
Definition
Star of the West
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