Chapter 6- New Republic

Question 1

Republican motherhood

Answer 1

Emphasized the importance of educating white women in the values of liberty and independence in order to strengthen virtue in the new nation. It was the republican duty of mothers to inculcate these values in their sons- the nations future leaders- as well as in their daughters.

Question 2

Indian trade and intercourse acts

Answer 2

These laws prohibited transfers of tribal lands to outsiders except as authorized by formal treaties or congress. Other provisions regulated the conduct of non-Indians on lands still under tribal control. To regulate intercultural trade and reduce abuses, the act required that traders be licensed by the U.S government. The law also defined murder and other abuses committed by non-Indians as federal offenses. Finally the legislation authorized the federal government to establish programs that would “promote civilization” among native Americans as a replacement for native culture

Question 3

Handsome lake

Answer 3

Seneca prophet who led his people to a spiritual revival that rejected alcoholism and promoted peaceful relationships with whites, including adopting some of their gender roles, while maintaining Iroquois religious traditions.

Question 4

Bill of rights

Answer 4

The first ten amendments to the constitution; designed to preserve individual liberty and rights.

Question 5

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 5

Secretary of the treasury under president george Washington.

Question 6

Reports on the public credit

Answer 6

Hamilton’s report that contained recommendations that would at once strengthen the country’s credit, enable it to defer paying its debt, and entice wealthy investors to place their capital at its service.

Question 7

Report on a national bank

Answer 7

Hamilton’s report that proposed a bank of the United States.

Question 8

Whiskey rebellion

Answer 8

A civil insurrection in 1794 where one hundred men attacked a U.S. marshal serving sixty delinquent taxpayers with summonses to appear in court at Philadelphia. A crowd of five hundred burned the chief revenue officer’s house after a shoot-out with federal soldiers assigned to protect him.

Question 9

Alta California

Answer 9

Present-day American state of California.

Question 10

Saint Domingue

Answer 10

Site of a black uprising against slavery and French colonial rule in the Caribbean in 1791-1793, which increased slaveowner’ distrust of Britain and support for the French Revolution.

Question 11

Treaty of Greenville.

Answer 11

Opened most of modern-day Ohio and a portion of Indiana to white settlement and ended u.s.-Indian hostilities in the region for sixteen years.

Question 12

Jay’s treaty

Answer 12

This treaty gave the Americans access to West Indian markets for small American ships, but only by bargaining away other American complaints as well as u.s. rights to load cargoes of sugar, molasses, and coffee from French colonies during wartime.

Question 13

Treaty of San Lorenzo

Answer 13

Also called pinckney’s treaty, it won westerners the right to unrestricted, duty free access to world markets via the Mississippi River.

Question 14

Election of 1796

Answer 14

Federalist John Adams won by three votes, and as the second-highest vote getter in the electoral college, Thomas Jefferson became Vice President.

Question 15

Alien and sedition acts

Answer 15

A series of laws passed in 1798 designed to protect national security.

Question 16

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

Answer 16

Written by Madison, the first declared that state legislatures had never surrendered their right to judge the constitutionality of federal actions and that they retained an authority called interposition, which enabled them to protect the liberties of their citizens. Written by Jefferson, the second declared that ultimate sovereignty rested with the states, which empowered them to “nullify” federal laws to which they objected.

Question 17

Election of 1800

Answer 17

Presidential election in which Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams.