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| woman's rights activist and argued for women's equal education. | ||
| wrote to her husband arguing for equality for women. | ||
| a proposal for a two house legislature where the lower house would be elected directly by the people and the upper house would be elected by the lower house. | ||
| a proposal in strengthening the Articles Of Confederation instead of completely re-hauling the government. It proposed a equal congress where every state had equal representation and voting. | ||
| Ancient history and political theory was advanced by the members of educated elite. In this government, your rank would be based off of merit rather than wealth. Society would be governed by members of 'natural aristocracy' which meant by people who had natural talent. | ||
| Economic theory was advanced by mostly skilled craftsmen and some members of the elite. They drew more on economic theory than political. This version of republicanism came from the Scottish theorist Adam Smith. The virtue would come from pursuit of private interests, rather than subjection to communal ideal. | ||
| The people to advance the third version were men who could widen other's participation in the political process, like Thomas Paine. They wanted government to respond directly to the needs of the people, any people. | ||
| Alexander Hamilton levied a tax on whiskey. The Americans were fed up so they started riots and revolted against Pittsburgh. The morale of this event was that Washington demonstrated that violence wouldn't be tolerated with the laws. | ||
| Was a representative of the French government. He had recruited Americans for expeditions to challenge the British and Spanish colonies for an attempt to freely distribute "privateering commissions." | ||
| Members of the Society who saw themselves as heirs of the Sons of Liberty, seeking the same goal as their predecessors: protection of people's liberties against encroachments by corrupt and self-serving rulers. | ||
| The two Shawnee brothers who led a revolt against American encroachment by encouraging a pan-Indians federation that expanded along the Northwest to the South. | ||
| was created by James Madison. He thought it was unnecessary guarantee peoples rights when government was one of limited powers. He proposed 19 amendments towards the House. | ||
| Congress increased military spending, authorization to build ships and stocking weapons to respond to the French and British feud. President Adams sent 3 commissioners to Paris to negotiate a settlement. They were there for a while talking with French, trying to scam the French out of money. | ||
| were a set of four laws passed by Congress. These acts intended to suppress dissent and to prevent further growth of the Democratic-Republican fraction. | ||
| lengthened the residency period and ordered all resident aliens to register with the federal government. | ||
| provided the detention of enemy aliens in time of war and gave the president authority to deport any alien he deemed dangerous to the nation's security. | ||
| sought to control both citizens and aliens. It outlawed conspiracies to prevent the enforcement of federal laws, setting the maximum punishment for offenses at five years in prison and a $5000 fine. | ||
| It was a undeclared war with France. War ships of the U.S. Navy and French Privateers seeking to capture American merchant vessels fought the Quasi-War in Caribbean waters. | ||
| developed as slave holders needed to find a way to keep slaves when the constitution stated "all men are created equal." | ||
| declared that peace could be achieved if the u.s. organized the Ohio river as Northwest boundary. National government declined and kept the land. | ||
| the Miami confederacy and General Wayne came to an agreement. The U.S. got the right to settle much of the future Ohio, the indigenous people got only the northwest corner of land. | ||
| established a six-member Supreme Court, thirteen district courts, and three circuit courts of appeal. | ||
| U.S. wanted to establish the principle of freedom of the seas and to assert its rights, as a neutral nation, to trade freely with both combatants. | ||
| established 2 arbitration commissions: how to deal with pre-war debts Americans owed to British creditors and to hear claims for captured American merchant ships. |
