APUSH Chapter 6 Flashcards

1887212083	Alexander hamilton	1st Secretary of the Treasury he promoted an economy based on banking investing trading and industry. Also promoted the federal assumption of state debts	0
1887212084	Alien and sedition acts	acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government	1
1887212085	Antifederalists	People who opposed the constitution	2
1887212086	Bill of rights	First ten amendments to the Constitution, drafted by Madison, placed limitations of government and protects natural rights.	3
1887212087	Checks and balances	A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power.	4
1887212088	Citizen genet affair	the French minister to the United States, objected Washington's proclamation of neutrality and stated that the Americans should support the French People. was then removed from being diplomat for the French government, but still stayed in US.	5
1887212089	Federalists	A term used to describe supporters of the Constitution during ratification debates in state legislatures.	6
1887212090	Federal structure	Organizational structure with a central government that shares power with strong regional governments.	7
1887212091	Great compromise	Where the American government compromised on a combination of both options of government to make a new system with everyone satisfied	8
1887212092	James Maddison	Drafter of the United States constitution and fourth president of the United States	9
1887212093	Jays treaty	A treaty to settle trade issues between the US and Britain and said to have stopped another war	10
1887212094	John Adams	Second president and vp under George Washington	11
1887212095	New Jersey plan	A plan for the government that made all the states vote equal no matter the size of population	12
1887212096	Pinckney's plan	His plan was to create a new government for the United States as soon as possible	13
1887212097	Quasi war	An undeclared war between America, Britain, and France, and Spain	14
1887212098	Republicans	People with conservative beliefs	15
1887212099	Revolution of 1800	The presidential election between Thomas Jefferson with the democratic republicans and john Adams with the federalists Thomas Jefferson ultimately won the election	16
1887212100	1786	Annapolis Conference meets	17
1887212101	1787	Constitutional Conference in Philadelphia meets, Constitution adopted	18
1887212102	1787-1788	States ratify constitution	19
1887212103	1789	Washington becomes first president, Bill of Rights adopted, French Revolution begins	20
1887212104	1791	First bank of the United States chartered	21
1887212105	1792	Washington reelected for president	22
1887212106	1794	Whiskey Rebellion, Jay's treaty	23
1887212107	1795	Pickney's treaty signed	24
1887212108	1796	John Adams elected president	25
1887212109	1798	XYZ Affair, Alien & Sedition Acts passed	26
1887212110	1801	Thomas Jefferson elected as president, Judiciary Act of 1801 passed	27
1887212111	Seperation of Powers	A fundamental principle of the United States government, whereby powers and responsibility are divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Within the governments creation of checks and balances.	28
1887212112	Sovereignty	Created friction between the colonies and Great Britain and troubled Americans as they attempted to create their own government with both the national government and state government.	29
1887212113	The Federalist Papers	A collection of articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the the ratification of the United States Constitution.	30
1887212114	Virginia And Kentucky Resolutions	Written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were political statements drafted in the 1970's that affirmed states rights in response to the federal alien and sedition acts.	31
1887212115	Virginia Plan	A proposal by delegates for bicameral legislative branch. This plan was drafted by James Madison. This plan proposed that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.	32
1887212116	Whiskey Rebellion	A revolt of settelers that broke out in western Pennsylvania during 1794 that was against a tax on whiskey.	33
1887212117	XYZ Affair	Was a political and diplomatic incident in 1797 that almost led to war between the United States and France.	34