The Constitution and the New Republic
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| 1453209031 | Society of Cincinnati | Group of Continental Army officers formed a military order in1783. They were criticized for their aristocratic ideals. | 1 | |
| 1453209032 | Alexander Hamilton | 1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt. | 2 | |
| 1453209033 | James Madison | 1808 and 1812; Democratic-Republican; notable events include the War of 1812, let the charter of the First Bank of the United States expire, but realized it was difficult to finance a war without the bank, so he chartered the 2nd Bank of the United States | 3 | |
| 1453209034 | Annapolis Convention | A convention held in 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention | 4 | |
| 1453209035 | Virginia Plan | A plan at the constitutional convention to base representation in the legislature on population. | 5 | |
| 1453209036 | Federalists | A term used to describe proponents of the Constitution during the debate over ratification. | 6 | |
| 1453209037 | Great Compromise | A compromise that proposed two houses of Congress; one where a state's population would determine representation and another where all states were represented equally | 7 | |
| 1453209038 | 3/5ths compromise | agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress | 8 | |
| 1453209039 | Separation of Power | Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law | 9 | |
| 1453209040 | Federal Structure | Organizational structure with a central government that shares power with strong regional governments. | 10 | |
| 1453209041 | Washington's farewell address | Warned Americans not to get involved in European affairs, not to make permanent alliances, not to form political parties and to avoid sectionalism. | 11 | |
| 1453209042 | Quasi War with France | France angry with Jay's Treaty and stopped American ships en route to Britain, undeclared war at sea | 12 | |
| 1453209043 | XYZ Affair | (JA) , incident of the late 1790s in which French secret agents demanded a bribe and a loan to France in lieu of negotiating a dispute over the Jay Treaty and other issues | 13 | |
| 1453209044 | Alien and sedition Act | (1798) laws passed by a Federalist-dominated Congress aimed at protecting the government from treasonous ideas, actions, and people | 14 | |
| 1453209045 | Bill of Rights | 1689, no law can be suspended by the king; no taxes raised; no army maintained except by parliamentary consent. Established after The Glorious Revolution. | 15 | |
| 1453209046 | Anti Federalists | Opponents of a strong central government who campaigned against the ratification of the Constitution in favor of a confederation of independant states | 16 | |
| 1453209047 | Federalist Papers | A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail. | 17 | |
| 1453209048 | Ratification Process | to approve; the approval or formal sanction of an act (3/5) (at that time) 9/13 of colonies had to agree | 18 | |
| 1453209049 | Judiciary act of 1789 | In 1789 Congress passed this Act which created the federal-court system. The act managed to quiet popular apprehensions by establishing in each state a federal district court that operated according to local procedures. | 19 | |
| 1453209050 | Bank of the US | The central bank of the nation designed to facilitate the issuance of a stable national currency and to provide a convenient means of exchange for the people. The bank was responsible for providing the nation economic stability. | 20 | |
| 1453209051 | Hamilton's Bank bill | Officially proposed by Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, to the first session of the First Congress in 1790, the concept for the Bank had both its support and origin in and among Northern merchants and more than a few New England state governments. | 21 | |
| 1453209052 | 1st Party system | Federalists and Democratic-Republicans | 22 | |
| 1453209053 | Whiskey Rebellion | In 1794, Pennsylvania distillers opposed and fought the 1791 excise tax on whiskey; Washington aggressively sent in troops. | 23 | |
| 1453209054 | New Jersey Plan | A constitutional proposal that would have given each state one vote in a new congress | 24 | |
| 1453209055 | Citizen Genet | French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834) | 25 | |
| 1453209056 | Jay's Treaty | 1794-Was made up by John Jay. It said that Britain was to pay for Americans ships that were seized in 1793. It said that Americans had to pay British merchants debts owed from before the revolution and Britain had agreed to remove their troops from the Ohio Valley | 26 | |
| 1453209057 | Pinkckney's Treaty | What treaty in 1795 reopened the port at New Orleans to US shipping, and to provide right of deposit? | 27 | |
| 1453209058 | Revolution of 1800 | Jefferson's election changed the direction of the government from Federalist to Democratic- Republican, so it was called a "revolution." | 28 | |
| 1453209059 | Aaron Burr | Fiery Vice President of Jefferson who hated Hamilton and killed him in a duel; part of a conspiracy to take over Louisiana. | 29 | |
| 1453209060 | Midnight Appointments | last-minute judges appointed by Adams when it was clear he wasn't going to get re-elected. All of the judges were Federalists with the same views and Adams. | 30 | |
| 1453209061 | Marbury V Madison | (1803) Marbury was a midnight appointee of the Adams administration and sued Madison for commission. Chief Justice Marshall said the law that gave the courts the power to rule over this issue was unconstitutional. established judicial review | 31 |
