AP US History Chap. 10 Review
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First President of the United States, 1789-1797. Commander-in-Chief of the Constitutional Army during the American Revolution and President of the Constitutional Convention. | ||
First Election beginning of new government | ||
First ten ammendments to the Constitution basic rights allowed people certain freedoms | ||
Created funding at par and reduced the national debt | ||
agreement negotiated by john jay to work out problems between britain and the US over the western frontier trade in the caribbean, british seizure of US ships, and debts owed to british merchants led to the xyz affair and almost a war with france | ||
France attempted to break free from Britain and asked America for help | ||
Second President Federalist dealt with the XYZ Affair | ||
Washington's Secretary of State, went against Hamiltons ideas | ||
A place where all the tax money would go, money would be printed, loans issued, and loans regulated. aided in the lowering of national debt | ||
seperated america into federalists and democratic republicans | ||
protest on Whiskey taxes which resulted in an extreme response by washington | ||
Washington proclaimed that America was neutral in | ||
warned America of the hazards of war, said to avoid permanent alliances, served as future precedent | ||
3 american delegates sent to France to negotiate, caused by British and French threatening American shipping, French bribe delegates but US leaves | ||
Four laws against the French as a result of the XYZ Affair, considered to be unconstitutional | ||
France seized American ships because of their refusal to help in the Revolution | ||
Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south. The act was seen as one of many precursors to war. | ||
Tax on selected items to help pay the National debt; led to the Whiskey Rebellion | ||
chartered in 1816, much like its predecessor of 1791 but with more capital; it could not forbid state banks from issuing notes, but its size and power enabled it to compel the state banks to issue only sound notes or risk being forced out of business. | ||
a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones | ||
after Mexican refusal to sell California-New Mexico region, Polk sent troops and it ended w/ Treat of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | ||
fanatical patriotism | ||
25. 1897-1901 (4) | ||
Secretary of State William Seward signed a treaty with Russia giving Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million (1867). | ||
French government representative asking for assistance for the French Revolution. Sparked support for the French Revolution and led to the creation of the Democratic-Republican party | ||
1830 - The Maysville Road Bill proposed building a road in Kentucky (Clay's state) at federal expense. Jackson vetoed it because he didn't like Clay, and Martin Van Buren pointed out that New York and Pennsylvania paid for their transportation improvements with state money. Applied strict interpretation of the Constitution by saying that the federal government could not pay for internal improvements. | ||
1817-1825 | ||
Meeting by Federalists dissatisfied about the war to draft a new Constitution | ||
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river | ||
cuba could not make treaties with foreign power limiting independence and not borrow excessive amounts of money, allowed us to establish naval base at guantanamo bay | ||
volent strike at Andrew Carnegies homestead steel factory in pennsylvania, june 29 1892 |