What foreign and domestic issues faced the early republic and how were they resolved? What precedents were set?
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| 1208678399 | New England | descendants of English immigrants, Congregationalism official religion, women outnumber men, slavery abolished | 1 | |
| 1208678400 | Mid-Atlantic | most ethnically and religious diverse region, slavery in cities and rural, complex political environment | 2 | |
| 1208678401 | the South | large slave population on plantations for cash crops, rich white planters, many free blacks from Revolution, political disagreement between backcountry and planters | 3 | |
| 1208678402 | the West | white population exploded, violence and fighting with Indians, young, rural poor from seaboard states migrated | 4 | |
| 1208678403 | George Washington | first President of the United States, 1789-1797 | 5 | |
| 1208678404 | Bill of Rights | a written summary of inalienable rights and liberties | 6 | |
| 1208678405 | Judiciary Act (1789) | act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the Supreme Court and a system of lower federal courts | 7 | |
| 1208678406 | the cabinet | heads of departments like the State Department, the Treasury, and the War Department, that were appointed by the President | 8 | |
| 1208678407 | Alexander Hamilton | head of the Treasury during Washington's presidency; developed a financial plant to address Revolutionary War debt | 9 | |
| 1208678408 | Hamilton's financial plan | Plan to address Revolutionary War debt, excise tax on distilled whiskey, national bank, government promote industry | 10 | |
| 1208678409 | public credit | nation's credit which allows it to borrow money or not | 11 | |
| 1208678410 | national debt | the United States had a huge debt left over from the Revolutionary War | 12 | |
| 1208678411 | assumption | federal government would assume the war debt of the state governments | 13 | |
| 1208678412 | excise tax | a tax on the production, sale, or consumption of a commodity | 14 | |
| 1208678413 | national bank and constitutional issues | Hamilton planned a national bank that would make loans to businesses, produce currency, and increase the power of the national government; however, the Constitution did not explicitly authorize Congress to have a bank | 15 | |
| 1208678414 | Federalist | Supporters of Hamilton's program; they were Americans' most fully integrated into the market economy - and in control of it | 16 | |
| 1208678415 | Republican | party headed by Thomas Jefferson that formed in opposition to the financial and diplomatic policies of the Federalist party; favored limiting the powers of the national government and placing the interests of farmers over those of financial and commercial groups | 17 | |
| 1208678416 | French Revolution | began in 1789, French revolutionaries threw off the monarchy; turned violent in 1792 and divided Americans in support or horror | 18 | |
| 1208678417 | Treaty of Greenville (1794) | Treaty of 1795 in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most the of the present state of Ohio to the United States | 19 | |
| 1208678418 | Whiskey Rebellion (1794) | Armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in western Pennsylvania who attempted to prevent the collection of the excise tax on whiskey | 20 | |
| 1208678419 | Jay's Treaty (1795) | treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships | 21 | |
| 1208678420 | Pinckney's Treaty or Treaty of San Lorenzo (1795) | Treaty with Spain in 1795 in which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary between the United States and Spanish Florida | 22 | |
| 1208678421 | Election of 1796 | first partisan election; John Adams (F) vs. Thomas Jefferson (R); Adams won with support in New England and the mid-Atlantic | 23 | |
| 1208678422 | Washington's Farewell Address | denunciation of partisanship and foreign alliances | 24 | |
| 1208678423 | XYZ Affair | diplomatic incident in 1798 in which Americans were outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats | 25 | |
| 1208678424 | Quasi-War | Undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800 between the United States and France | 26 | |
| 1208678425 | Alien and Sedition Acts | collective name given to four acts passed by Congress in 1798 that curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreigners resident in the United States | 27 | |
| 1208678426 | states' rights | favoring the rights of individual states over rights claimed by the national government | 28 | |
| 1208678427 | Franco-American Accord (1800) | settlement reached with France that brought an end to the Quasi-War and released the unted States from its 1778 alliance with France | 29 | |
| 1208678428 | Nullification | a Constitutional doctrine holding that a state has a legal right to declare a national law null and void within its borders | 30 | |
| 1208678429 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | proposed a compact theory of the Constitution, states' right to decide if national government was unconstitutional and block authority of national government - nullification | 31 | |
| 1208678430 | Deism | religious orientation that rejects divine revelation and holds that the workings of nature alone reveal God's design for the universe | 32 | |
| 1208722379 | Tarrif act of 1789 | Tax on imports meant to raise the United State's Revenue, not to protect the US. Major source of revenue up until the Civil War | 33 | |
| 1208734875 | Tonnage act of 1789 | taxes paid for the amount of tons a ship is carrying as a park of Hamilton's tariffs. American Importing goods paid 6 cents per ton. American built, foreign owned ships paid 30 cents per ton. Foreign ships - 50 cents per ton | 34 | |
| 1208734876 | Treaty of san Lorenzo | • Signed with Spain in 1795, the Treaty of San Lorenzo - also known as Pinckney's Treaty - gave the U.S. unrestricted access to the Mississippi River and established the border between the U.S. and Spanish Florida. | 35 |
