Chapter 6 Key Terms Flashcards
New Jersey Plan
William Patterson
Favor small states
Equal representation
1 vote per state
James Madison
Virginia Plan
Most important contributor to Constitution
Solved Sovereignty issue - said that power comes from the people
Naturalization Act 1790
Legalize stream of immigrants coming into USA & allow them to become citizens
-must be white to be a citizen
Virginia Plan
James Madison
Favor big states
Bicameral legislature
Funding the debt
Government sells bonds to wealthy landowners who had helped pay for the war
Whiskey Rebellion
- Farmers in w Pennsylvania refuse to pay whiskey tax and terrorize tax collectors
- put down by Washington’s militia
- intimidate whiskey rebels
Citizen Genet
- French diplomatic representative
- pushed for American participation in French war vs GB, pretty much just embarrassed himself
Jay’s Treaty
1794
- settled conflict w Britain
- established undisputed American sovereignty in NW lands
- reasonable conmercial relationship b/w USA and GB
Pinckney’s Treaty
1795 w Spain
- Americans get access to Mississippi River
- adjust Florida boundary
- no floridian Indians can raid Americans
Washington’s Farewell Address
Warns against getting too cray-cray when influenced by foreigners (@france)
The X, Y, Z Affair
USA unofficially declares war on France
-creates popular outrage at France’s demand for loans
Alien Act
Placed new obstacles in the way of foreigners who wished to become American citizens
Sedition Act
Increased government power to stifle opposition
-passed by federalists 1798
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1798-1799
Federal government have been formed by a contract among the states and possessed only certain delegated powers
-if the federal government exercised any undelegated powers they were invalid
The Judiciary Act of 1801
Federalists reduced the number of Supreme Court justiceships by one but increased the number of federal judgeships as a whole (the officers become the “midnight appointments)
