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U.S. History Chapter 6 Test

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Feds-wanted a gov. of monarchy because they felt that the state gov.'s would take over Jeffs- believed the Feds wanted to get rid of everything US acheived from the war
For the U.S. government to take on the debt of the states because if the federal government owed the ceditors money then the creditors would care about the future and well-being of the whole U.S.
Jefferson, slaveholders, planter, commercial farmers, and people distant from urban areas because they thought the government had no buisness regulating local affairs.
they opposed it and saw it as an example of deomcratic revolution gone wrong.
embraced it and saw it as an extension of the American Revolution.
the power of the federal government using military force
because they allied with Great Britain, the country they had won their freedom from, they supressed the Whiskey Rebellion, and they opposed their economy plan.
this was the only time when the President and the Vice President were from 2 different political parties.
The Americans proved that they could transfer power from one party to another peacefully.
When Adams sent officials to Paris to negotiate with the Paris government and French secret agents demanded a bribe of $250,000 and a $10 million loan to France. If they did this then they would get to talk to the government.
Americans were outraged and by 1798 France and U.S. were in an undeclared war firing on and seizing one anothers ships.
Alien- the president had the right to imprision or deport citizens of another country that were residing in the U.S. Sedition- it was against the law to criticise government officials unless you could prove everything you said
aimed towards the immigrants who were mainly Jeffersonian Republicans
the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
this was when states could decide whether a federal law was constitutional or not.
they are federal judges who were chosen at the end of Adams' term because he wanted to preserve some power in the judicial branch for the Fed.'s Called this because they were selected at the end of his term.
to reduce the influence of the federal government in the people's lives -reduced taxes -cut the size of federal offices and the armed forces
Jefferson won overwhelmingly.
Marbury was appointed Justice of Peace of D.C. but Madison (secretary of state) refused to deliever his papers, Marbury sued and they went to the Supreme Court.
Court said that to tell the executive branch what to do was unconstitutional, and so it ended in Madison's favor and Marbury never became Justice of Peace of D.C.
it provided survey and sale of land in the NW territory.
established a process for a territory to become a state.
when the federal courts could review laws and declare them unconstitional.
New Orleans
Napoleon offered the Louisiana Territory and New Orleans for 15 million.
it wasnt allowed by the contitution but he urged Congress the agree because it would double the size of the U.S.
Frech warships were harassing American ships trading with Britain and British ships interfered with American ships trading with France.
British ships would kidnap american sailors to serve in thier navy.
stopped at commerce with the Europeans, in 1807
France and Britain were largely unaffected. The americans hated the embargo
New Englanders because they made their living through trade
His popularity ended with this act because the people disliked the government interference in the economy.
The British had continually interferred with shipping and ecouraged Native Americans to resist settlement of the West.
US only had a small army and navy and no foreign assistance. The US would now have to deal with the British and the Native Americans who were angered by Western Expansion.
slavery would be permitted in Missouri and Maine would ne a nonslave state, kept peace between the north and south for 20 years. outlawed slavery north of the 36'30 degree Latitude Line, proposed by Henry Clay

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