American Precedents(Unit 4)

Question 1

When did Monroe and his last term

Answer 1

1824

Question 2

Who was Washington’s department of state secretary

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson

Question 3

Who is Washington’s department of war secretary

Answer 3

Henry Knox

Question 4

Who is Washington Department of treasury secretary

Answer 4

Alexander Hamilton

Question 5

What was the Judiciary act of 1789

Answer 5

It established a six person Supreme Court, 3 Appellate Courts, 13 District Courts (one per state minimum)

Question 6

What was section 25(think judiciary act 1789)

Answer 6

It allows for cases to be appealed from state to federal courts if there is a constitutional issue involved

Question 7

List the four financial precedents set by Alexander Hamilton

Answer 7

Ridding of National debt, revenue act of 1789, excise tax, and a national Bank

Question 8

How did Hamilton proposed that America got rid of its debt

Answer 8

The federal government would assume state debts the south was very happy because they had already paid off most of their debts so the capital would be moved to the south (Washington DC) as a compromise
*****Precedents set – the US always repeated debts

Question 9

What was the revenue act of 1789

Answer 9

it established tariffs as our primary source of revenue

Question 10

What was the excise tax

Answer 10

It was a tax on whiskey - it was designed to set a precedent that the new US government WOULD enforce laws and crush the whiskey rebellion

Question 11

Who thought the First National Bank was constitutional and why

Answer 11

Hamilton thought that a national Bank is constitutional by using article 1 section 1 clause 18 to expand the foregoing powers to fix borrow and coin money

Question 12

What is the theory of loose construction of the Constitution? Who believed in it?

Answer 12

The size and power of the federal government will expand. Federalists believed in this

Question 13

Who believed in strict constructionalism and why?

Answer 13

Democratic Republicans(anti-federalists) they believed that they should literally all of the wording of the Constitution - no implied powers

Question 14

In what year did the French Revolution start. When did they end?

Answer 14

1789. 1815.

Question 15

Who sided with France during the Napoleonic wars? Why?

Answer 15

Democratic Republicans. Because they held out during the American Revolution every war and the permanent alliance with france

Question 16

Who sided with Great Britain during the Napoleonic wars. Why

Answer 16

The earliest because they wanted to be like Great Britain, Great Britain was a role model they were cultural ties and France was currently out of control

Question 17

Where the alien and sedition acts

Answer 17

It was a crying to criticize the government Democratic Republic and journalist we’re going to jail and the Supreme Court wouldn’t hear the case

Question 18

Over the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions

Answer 18

Anonymously written by Jefferson and Madison, they were at the doctrine of nullification a.k.a. the states rights series of government. States created the social contract with the federal government. Had states going to say that the federal law violates their natural rights and eclairs laws Nollen Boyd errors in that argument – preamble/article 6

Question 19

What precedent was said during the first Barbary Pirates war from 1801 1803

Answer 19

Freedom of the seas

Question 20

Why was the embargo act of 1807 est?

Answer 20

Great Britain and France interfering with US shipping in order to keep supplies from each other

Question 21

Describe the battle of fallen Timbers

Answer 21

In the Ohio River Valley(NW Territory) an army under the control of general Anthony Wayne attack and if you did the Miami Confederacy at the battle of fallen Timbers in 1794

Question 22

What was the significance of the Treaty of Greenville

Answer 22

It was the first time the US recognize that the natives were the only ones who could cede their land

Question 23

Hamilton, Washington, Adams belong to what political party

Answer 23

Federalist

Question 24

Jefferson and Madison long to what political party

Answer 24

Democratic Republicans

Question 25

Did Democratic Republic and believe in tariffs. Why

Answer 25

No because they didn’t want to become an industrial power. industrial powers will destroy the independence and the liberty also the south has to buy goods from Europe tariffs make it the more expensive

Question 26

Federalist were normally in what region of the country

Answer 26

North east and were normally upper classes since

Question 27

Democratic Republicans were normally in what section of the United States

Answer 27

Southern and western

Question 28

What were the causes of the war of 1812

Answer 28

Freedom of the seas, Great Britain impressment of US sailors, the Warhawks led by John C Calhoun and Henry Clay (they want Canada), Britain was aiding the natives

Question 29

Result of the war of 1812

Answer 29

Star-Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson won the battle of New Orleans after the war was over, the treaty of ghent

Question 30

What was the rush bagot

Answer 30

Treaty that set the precedent of demilitarizing the American/Canadian border

Question 31

What was the Adams- Onis treaty

Answer 31

Do you want gets Florida from Spain

Question 32

What leads to the demise of the Federalist party

Answer 32

The Hartford convention. Cause people to question their patriotism

Question 33

Why does Western expansion explode

Answer 33

America games land for settlement ceded by the natives

Question 34

When was the Cotton gin invented

Answer 34

1793

Question 35

The north east phone line as a source of power caused what

Answer 35

And industrial take off

Question 36

What are the three parts of the American system

Answer 36

One – federally funded roads and canals to connect the country
two – recharter the bank of the US
Three – a new tariff the (tariff of 1816)

Question 37

Who created the American system

Answer 37

Madison

Question 38

Which part of the American system was not passed by madison

Answer 38

The federally funded roads and canals

Question 39

Marberry versus Madison

Answer 39

first time that the Supreme Court actually use the power of judicial review to declare a federal law Null and void. what long was it?( judiciary act of 1801) this leads to the midnight judges(marbury included)

Question 40

McCullough vs Woodward

Answer 40

States cannot interfere in private business contracts

Question 41

Darmouth vs Ogden

Answer 41

States cannot grant monopolies – Supreme Court has the power to act in this issue(interstate trade)

Question 42

Munro doctrine of 1823

Answer 42

Europe soon western hemisphere – US debt of your tune. Europe cannot come back in recolonize their colonies lost in the Napoleonic wars

Question 43

When wasWashington elected

Answer 43

1788