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| 846012639 | 1) The Confederation Congress | acted as the body of government from 1781 until the constitution was written in 1789. The body of government did little to nothing at stopping trouble. The act of Shays' Rebellion even occurred under the ruling of the Confederation Congress. | |
| 846012640 | 2) Alexander Hamilton | was a very renowned and successful lawyer around this time. He was a Scottish man that called for a thing he called a national convention or impost. This convention would be held in order to alter the Articles of Confederation. He followed in the footsteps of Morris. | |
| 846012641 | 3) James Madison/Annapolis Convention | was a politician from the local area of Virginia that was an aid to Hamilton. He agreed with Hamilton in the fact that a reformation needed to be done to the Articles of Confederation and agreed that the national convention would be the best way to go about it. Convention was held by these men and resulted in the convention that led to the writing and development of the Constitution. | |
| 846012642 | 4) The Founding Fathers | was a group of men that are noted for adopting the formation of the government that we have today as well as helping to create the country even down to the constitution. | |
| 846012643 | 5) Constitutional Convention | was a convention that was only open to the representatives that attended (everywhere but from Rhode Island), and by George Washington. The convention was originally intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but eventually led to the development of the Constitution and a new entire form of Government. | |
| 846012644 | 6) Edmund Randolph/James Madison/Virginia Plan | were two of the men sent by Virginia to attend the convention. Randolph stated that there needed to be a system of checks and balances with three divided levels of power. These levels would be called the judicial, legislative and executive. The Virginia plan went on further into detail to break it down into even smaller levels. | |
| 846012645 | 7) William Patterson/New Jersey Plan | was a plan composed by Patterson in reaction to the Virginia plan. This plan said that it should remain the same with no changes; it was rejected however had some minor annoying effects upon the Virginia Plan. | |
| 846012646 | 8) The Great Comprise | accepted on July 16th, 1787 and was a compromise between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia plan. Divided the house into levels while keeping some of it up to two representatives, and became the basic foundation for what we have today. | |
| 846012647 | 9) Separation of power/checks and balances | was the system that was created out of the great compromise as well as the Virginia plan that divided the powers. The system divided the power evenly into levels and groups that were designed to keep check on each of the others in order to stop anything like another King George III. | |
| 846012648 | 10) Federalists/Federalist Papers/Publius | Federalist was the name given to the supporter of the Constitution. Documents written by George Washington, Ben Franklin that spoke of supporting the constitution were filed under the name publius and later became known to the public as the federalist papers. | |
| 846012649 | 11) Anti federalists | were a group that was against the constitution calling it a breaking of the constitution. They feared that it would raise taxes and cause trouble in the colonies. | |
| 846012650 | 12) The Bill of Rights | was the first ten amendments to the constitution that included some of the most basic laws and structures to form the constitution and beginning of the new country. The bills included such details as freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion. | |
| 846012651 | 13) The Judiciary Acts of 1789 | created the Supreme Court, as well as gave the court power to make the final decision on state laws. | |
| 846012652 | 14) Henry Knox | was a renowned general in the war due to his famous cannon delivery. He was the one to deliver the cannons all the way to George Washington when he needed them. He eventually became the country's first secretary of Defense. | |
| 846012653 | 17. Report on Manufactures | was an outlined plan by Alexander Hamilton to stimulate the growth of industry. Hamilton was so proud because he said it was going to have many advantages to society. | |
| 846012654 | 18. The Bank of America | this idea was sparked from Hamilton wanting to pay off the national debt. Nowhere in the constitution did congress have the right to make one, it was heavily debated and finally in 1791 the first makings | |
| 846012655 | 19. ''First Party System" | the republicans went to greater lengths in getting the vote than the federalists. They created comities, societies, and caucuses. The republicans also worked together to influence the state and the local elections. But they didn't believe that they had made a party system. | |
| 846012656 | 20. Whiskey Rebellion | congress made a tax on whiskey and the colonist refused to pay it. Farmers in Pennsylvania in 1749 began to terrorize tax collectors. | |
| 846012657 | 21. Jay's Treaty | was a treaty to get the British soldiers off of their posts and stop England from blocking colonist's ships, it failed to achieve its goal. | |
| 846012658 | 22. Thomas Pinckney/ Pinckney's Treaty | jay's treaty paved the way for negations with Spain and opened the door for Thomas Pinckney to go all the way. He created Pinckney's Treaty which was signed in 1795. Spain said that America had the right to go all over the Mississippi and drop off goods into New Orland's, agreed that Florida's border would be on the 31st parallel. The Spanish also stopped the Indians from fighting north on the Florida border. | |
| 846012659 | 23. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney/ Prince Talleyrand/ XYZ Affair | tensions between America and France were high after the two treaties. When Charles went to France the French didn't come to greet him and escort him to his chambers. Adams appointed a bipartisan commission to negotiate with France in order to stabilize peace. Prince Talleyrand sent3 agents to talk with the French minister to demand a loan for France and a bribe for France before anything went down. But Pinckney wouldn't do it, he said "NO, NO! Not a sixpence!" Adams urged congress to prepare for war, but before he gave the report to congress about the trip to France he deleted the three agent's names, and put in XYZ. It was published and then called the XYZ affair. | |
| 846012660 | 24. The "Quasi War" | was the sea was between France and America. | |
| 846012661 | 25. The Alien and Sedition Acts | was a way for the federalists to get ahead of the Republican Party. The Alien Act was a restriction on aliens coming into the United States and gave the president a firmer hand in these issues. The Sedition Acts prosecuted people who went against their government plan. The people prosecuted were usually libelous or treasonous. The republicans interpreted these laws as a way the federalists wanted to destroy them. | |
| 846012662 | 26. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | the Kentucky legislature was written by Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia legislature was written by James Madison. They were combined to make the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. They also used the ideas of John Locke and the 10th amendment in the constitution. If a party or state government had gotten to high in power the central government had the right to 'nullify." | |
| 846012663 | 27. Aaron Burr | the electoral voters would have one person not vote for one of the vise-presidents, do that there wouldn't be a tie. When the votes were counted there was still a tie between Jefferson and Burr. So each state had one electoral vote to pick the next vice president. |
