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Chapter 8 A New Nation Flashcards

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What happened to the economy?

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inflation

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What was the first meeting after revolution?

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Annapolis Convention

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What was the second meeting after the revolution in order to create a better government?

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Constitution Convention

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4
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What state did not send delegates to the convention?

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Rhode Island

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5
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What is the Virginia plan?

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a congress with representatives by population

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What is the New Jersey plan?

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a congress equal with two senators per state

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7
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What is the 3/5ths compromise?

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for every 5 slaves is 3 people

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8
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Was slavery mentioned in the constitution?

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no

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9
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Who is the father of the constitution?

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James Madison

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What is the name of the people who support the constitution?

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Federalists

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What is the name of the people who want more local state government?

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anti-federalists

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12
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Who is washington’s vice president?

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John Adams

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Who is washington’s secretary of state?

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Thomas Jefferson

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14
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Who was Washington’s Attorney General?

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Edmund Randolph

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Who was Secretary of the Treasure for Washington?

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Alexander Hamilton

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Who was the Secretary of War for Washington?

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Henry Knox

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17
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What does the elastic clause do?

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it gives a lot of freedom to the government

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18
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What does Alexander Hamilton want for economic recovery?

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to recover debts of both the nation and states

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What does Alexander Hamilton suggest in order to remove the debt?(3)

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Bank of America,bonds, and protective tarriffs

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20
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How is the debt good?

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it unites the nation for a common cause

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21
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What was the cause of the whiskey rebellion?

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taxes in the west

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22
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Who is Little Turtle?

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Indian leader who fought against the Americans in Little Turtle’s war.

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What did the Treaty of Greenville do

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Native Americans are kicked out of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan

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24
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Who is citizen Genet?

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a French citizen who recruit America to fight in French Revolution

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25
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Who creates the Neutrality Proclamation?

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America

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What was Washington’s three points of farwell?

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neutrality, friendly to all nations, national military academy

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27
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What does Washington warn about?(2)

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stay clear of permanent alliances and political parties

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28
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What did Jay’s treaty do?

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it forced Great Britain out of America

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29
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What two cabinet figures caused a split in American politics?

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Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

30
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What was the xyz affair?

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an French-American diplomatic relation scandal

31
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Who was John Bull?

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the British “Uncle Sam”

32
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Did we give money to France for the war?

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yes

33
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What was the cause of the Fries rebellion?

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a tax in Pennsylvania against a war tax.

34
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What treaty starts fresh in treaties with France?

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Treaty of Convention of 1800

35
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What does the Alien act allow?

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the president is allowed to kick out aliens.

36
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What does the Naturalization Act change?

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the time to become a citizen from 5 to 14

37
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What does the Sedition Act create?

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the law against criticizing the government

38
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How many people died in the revolution in 1800.

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no one

39
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Who was Judith Sargent Murray?

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a feminist who especially promoted women education.

40
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What is republican motherhood?

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the women are to raise good citizens

41
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The most important result of Shay’s Rebellion was?

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the response by Americans who wanted a stronger national government

42
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A significant element in the crisis of the 1780’s was the?

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fear by many Americans that state taxes and heavy debt would ruin them economically

43
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The Americans who wrote the Constitution of the US represented who?

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the ideals of the social and economic elite

44
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The Constitution of the US guaranteed what?

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the continuation of slavery in the South

45
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The early years of the new federal government were especially important because

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they set precedences that shaped the way the nation would develop in later years

46
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An important goal of Alexander Hamilton was to

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establish the good credit of the new nation and to protect American Manufacturers

47
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Regarding relations with the Indian peoples, the new government of the United State pursued what policies?

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confusing and quite often contradictory policies

48
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In the early years of the republic, Spain did what?

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took steps to block American expansion to the west

49
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The XYZ Affair involved diplomatic relations between the US and

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France

50
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One result of the peaceful transfer of power in 1800 was

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an expansion in the popular interest in politics

51
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Jeffersonian Republicans played an important role in establishing a free press in the United States by

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their actions in opposing the Sedition Act

52
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In order to become a law, a bill in Congress must?:

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pass both houses of Congress in identical form.

53
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Under the Constitution, the status of the western Indian tribes was?:

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not clearly defined.

54
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In the Constitutional Convention, voting qualifications were made residual powers because of the?:

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widespread variation of voting requirements in the states.

55
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According to the U. S. Constitution, revenue bills must originate with?:

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the House of Representatives.

56
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During the early 1780s, the authority of the national government was vested in what branch?:

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the legislative branch.

57
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The positions of loose construction and strict construction of the Constitution were first established in letters written by Hamilton and Jefferson to President Washington. The letters concerned?:

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the issue of creating a Bank of the United States.

58
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The primary issue in dispute in Shay’s Rebellion was?:

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the jailing of individuals or seizure of their property for failure to pay taxes during a time of economic hardship.

59
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 did what?:

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established a system of lower federal courts.

60
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that the right to determine the constitutionality of a law passed by Congress rested in?:

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the states

61
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What were three causes of the mega inflation?

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Shortage of goods because of the British blockade, demand of the army, and flood of paper currency

62
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What was the result of the great compromise?

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A bicameral congress

63
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What did Mercy Otis Warren lead?

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A critique of the new Constitution.

64
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What did the intercourse act do?

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It regulated trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes

65
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Where in the constitution does it declare the president can have a cabinet?

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it doesnt

66
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What were the positives of the Articles of the Confederations?

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it kept the nation together, it established townships

67
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What were townships?

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blocks of land that divided up in the west

68
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What did the North West Ordinance do?

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outlawed slavery and set up how to become a state

69
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What did citizen Ghent do?

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he was a French Citizen who was trying to establish American support for the French war

70
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What did the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions do?

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vetoed the Alien and Sedition Act

71
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Who dueled Hamilton?

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Aaron Burr

72
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What was the cause of the Barbary Wars?

A

North African pirates invaded the Meditteranean

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