Unit 2 key terms (A New Nation)

Question 1

George Washington Presidency

Answer 1

-First president
- established rule that presidents could only serve terms.

1787-1795

Question 2

John Adams Presidency

Answer 2

• 3/5th compromise
• women had few property rights and couldn’t vote
• The abolitionist movement

1797-1801

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson Presidency

Answer 3

• expansion with the Louisiana Purchase
• slavery would fail
• cut taxes to reduce nations debt

1801-1809

Question 4

James Madison Presidency

Answer 4

• wrote federalist papers, U.S. constituation, and bill of rights.
• wanted to avoir war with Europe.

1809-1817

Question 5

James Monroe’s Presidency

Answer 5

• negotiated the details of the louisianna purchase.
• new states admitted: Louisianna, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama.

1817-1825

Question 6

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 6

the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. America expanded there nation westward.

Question 7

What was the Embargo Act?

Answer 7

closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain.

Question 8

What was the Alien Act?

Answer 8

• immigrants had to wait 14 years before they could become citizens.
• required the president to order deportations without trials, of any alien.

Question 9

What was the Sedition Act?

Answer 9

limited free speech by making it illegal to publish “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government or it’s officials.

Question 10

What was the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 10

A meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation.

Question 11

What is Ratification?

Answer 11

the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.

Question 12

What was Marbury vs. Madison (Midnight Judges) about?

Answer 12

strengthened the federal judiciary by establishing for it the power of judicial review, by which the federal courts could declare legislation.

Question 13

What was Washington’s Farewell Speech?

Answer 13

exhorted Americans to set aside their violent likes and dislikes of foreign nations, lest they be controlled by their passions.

Question 14

What was the Pinkney’s Treaty?

Answer 14

• U.S. wanted land west of the Appalachian mountains and Mississippi Rive.
  -The treaty gave the U.S. what they wanted.

Question 15

What was the XYZ Affair?

Answer 15

An incident in which French agents attempted to get a bribe and loans from US diplomats in exchange for an agreement that French privateers would no longer attack American ships. It led to an undeclared war between the two countries.

Question 16

What was the War of 1812 about?

Answer 16

United states and Britain had a war over the broader conflict between Great Britain and France over who would dominate Europe and the wider world. U.S. joined against Britain.

Question 17

What is Judicial Review?

Answer 17

holds that the courts are vested with the authority to determine the legitimacy of the acts of the executive and the legislative branches of government.

Question 18

What was the Monroe Doctrine about?

Answer 18

warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

Question 19

what was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Answer 19

a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery.

Question 20

What were the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

Answer 20

was a federally funded venture to explore the North American West.

Question 21

What were the War Hawks?

Answer 21

Young, energetic politicians, mostly from the South and the West and known as War Hawks, initiated legislation designed to steer the United States towards war.

Question 22

What was the Adam-Omnis Treaty?

Answer 22

the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest.

Question 23

What was McCulloch vs. Maryland about?

Answer 23

The court decided that the Federal Government had the right and power to set up a Federal bank and that states did not have the power to tax the Federal Government.

Question 24

What was the Gibbons v. Ogden about?

Answer 24

was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the power to regulate interstate commerce.

Question 25

What was the Era of Good Feelings

Answer 25

The end of the War of 1812 led to the Era of Good Feelings, a period of relative stability, prosperity and peace.

Question 25

What was The Whiskey Rebellion?

Answer 25

farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis.