Ch8 - The Federalist Era Flashcards
Attorney general
Handles legal affairs of government
3 executive departments created by new congress
Department of state, department of the treasury, war department
Postmaster general
Oversees post offices and post roads
First Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson
First secretary of the treasury
Alexander Hamilton
First secretary of war
Henry Knox
First attorney general
Edmund Randolph
First postmaster general
Samuel osgood
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court
John Jay
Excise tax
A tax on a product produced, sold, and consumed in the home country
Mint act of 1792
Established a mint and provided for the coinage of gold, silver, and copper
Bank notes
Paper money which could be exchanged for gold or silver coins
Hamiltons 3 categories of debt
Foreign ($12M), domestic ($40M), state ($21M)
Protective tariffs
Implemented to discourage importation of certain products
Jay treaty
England agreed to abandon forts, to submit to settlement of disputes boundaries and damaged done to American seamen, to open certain ports to American ships
Pinckney treaty
Settled boundary between Spanish Florida and the United States
Battle of fallen timbers
General Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians
15th state
Kentucky
16th state
Tenessee
French diplomat who came to US to enlist help for revolution
Citizen Edmond Genêt
3 man peace commission sent to France in xyz affair
Charles c Pinckney, john Marshall, Elbridge Gerry
Department of the Navy
Created in 1798 as a prep for war with France
Alien and sedition acts
1798
Judiciary act of 1801
Called for creation of 16 new federal judgeships
