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Unit 5 Flashcards

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What departments were in President Washington’s cabinet

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  • Department of Treasury
  • Department of War
  • Department of State
  • Attorney General position
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Who was in charge of the Department of Treasury

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Alexander Hamilton

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Who was in charge of the Department of War

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Henry Knox

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Who was in charge of the Department of State

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Thomas Jefferson

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Who held the Attorney General position

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Edmund Randolph

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What is an excise tax

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An indirect tax on certain goods, services, or activities

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What was the cause of the Whiskey Rebellion

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The Whisky rebellion was caused by a federal excise tax on whisky, Western farmers had excess grain that cost too much to transport across the mountains to sell to eastern cities so they put the grain in whisky bottles making it cheaper to transport. The farmers saw this as unfair and the feelings toward it led to protests and rebellion.

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Why did President Washington order the army to end the Whisky Rebellion

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The Whisky Rebellion threatened the authority of the newly formed government and demonstrated a need to show that the federal government could enforce its laws, grew very violent and after the “Whisky Boys” set fire to a regional tax collectors home, Washington responded with force, and
threatened the ability of a nascent United States

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What advice did President Washington give the Americans in his Farewell Address

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Washington reminded the americans of all the bounded them together and that they all shared the same manners, religion, habits, and political principals. Triumph Together!

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What did Washington tell the Americans to do in his Farewell address

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  • Maintain neutrality in foreign affairs
  • Avoid forming permanent alliances with foreign nations
  • Be wary of foreign influence
  • Don’t let political factions divide the country emphasizing the importance of nation unity above regional influence
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What did Hamilton believe was important to make the US a great nation

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Hamilton believed that manufacturing and commerce, and a stable financial system such as a national bank, a strong federal government, and less state power he believed would make the United States a great nation

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How did Hamilton believe a national bank serve the country’s interest

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  • stable currency
  • allow the government to handle its dept
  • provide loans to businesses
  • encourage investment and economic growth
  • enhance the government creditworthiness
  • CREATE A FINANCIALLY HEALTHY NATION
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What issue divided the Federalist and Democratic-Republicans

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Banking

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Who was for banking of the political parties

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Federalists

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Who was opposed to banking of the political parties

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Democratic-Republicans

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What did the Democratic-Republicans believe the US economy should be based on

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Agriculture because they believed that the nation’s independent, self-sufficient farmers were key to a stable democratic society with a connection based community.

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What did the Democratic-Republicans worry about if the society was based on buisness

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The Democratic-Republicans worried that if the society was based on business and factories it would create social inequality

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What did Thomas Jefferson support in a society based on agriculture

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He supported the US westward expansion that would provided more land for farmers to settle on

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What was the Alien Act

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The Alien Act gave presidents the right to deport non-citizens who were subject of foreign enemy’s

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What was the Sedition Act

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The Sedition Act made it illegal for American citizens to publish false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the government

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How did the Democratic-Republicans view the acts

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The Democratic-Republicans such as Jefferson and Madison viewed the acts as against the Democratic-Republicans and viewed them as unconstitutional

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What authority did the States’ Doctrine of the Constitution give states according to Jefferson and Madison

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States had the authority to interose or nullify laws that they deemed unconstitutional giving them the power to void a federal law within their state as shown in the Kentucky and Virginia revolution.

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23
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What is the 12th Amendment

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The 12th amendment outlines the process for electing the President and Vice President of the United States

24
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When was the 12th Amendment ratified

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June 15, 1804

25
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What were 3 things the 12th amendment made clear

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  • President who has most votes gets elected
  • Electors have to cast separate ballots for Vice President and President
  • If equal votes the House of Representatives chooses the president out of three candidates and Senate for Vice
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What event led to the 12th amendment being established

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The 12th amendment was proposed to avoid another incident that happened in 1800, when the President and Vice President came from different political parties and ensuring the 12th amendment clearlying the process meaning each person would most likely come from the same party

27
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What two characteristics would be of a Federalist at the time
1. Farmer
2. Believes the wealthy should rule
3. Supports the French Revolution
4. Believes in a strong national government

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2 and 4

28
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What two characteristics would be of a Democratic-Republican at the time
1. Farmer
2. Believes the wealthy should rule
3. Supports the French Revolution
4. Believes in a strong national government

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1 and 3

29
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What region of the US did most people live in the early 1800s

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Northeast

30
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Where was most of the population density located in the 1800s

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New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston

31
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Which type of music did enslaved African Americans prefer

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Spirituals which were a type of folk music that often expressed elements of their African heritage and Christian hymns

32
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What did Americans embrace as a value of identity

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Individualism and Liberty

33
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What is the Era of Good Feelings

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It was a period of patriotism for beating the British and optimism about the country because they won a war against the British.

34
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When did the Era of Feeling happen (time period)

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After the War of 1812 furthermore 1815

35
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Why did the Era of Good Feeling end

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The Era of Good feeling ended in around 1825 due to the 1824 presidential elections as the the Democratic-Republican parties fractured and were fighting for presidency with people like Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay and due to sectional tensions including slavery.
Issues like the Missouri Compromise (a law passed in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress between the number of free and slave states)
The Panic of 1819 (the first major financial crisis in the United States, and is considered to be the country’s first Great Depression)

36
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Describe John Marshall’s Supreme Court decisions in the early 1800s (summary)

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His ruling overall laid the foundation for the most robust federal system with the Supreme Court as a key interpreter of the Constitution

37
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Who is Catharine Sedgwick? What are her contributions to American culture

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Catharine Sedgwick was one of the leaders of American literary culture in the early 19th century and set a pattern for development of current novels such as domestic or historic

38
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Describe early American art. What gave it its individual identity

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Early American art was focused on portraits of the nation’s prominent leaders and America’s wilderness while drawing mainly in European styles but gradually adapting their own identity style through democratic ideals showing Americans landscapes and the nation’s burgeoning history

39
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What were two of Washington Irving’s folktales

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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

40
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Where was Rip Van Winkle set

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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is set in a village in the Catskill Mountains of New York, near the Hudson River

41
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Where was The Legend of Sleepy Hollow set

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Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set in Sleepy Hollow, a fictional hamlet in the Hudson Valley of New York, near Tarrytown

42
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What did President Washington’s Farewell Address say about foreign policy

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  • maintain a policy of neutrality, avoiding permanent alliances with foreign nations and instead cultivating friendly relations with all while steering clear of entangling foreign commitments, essentially advocating for a hands-off approach to international politics to protect the young nation’s interest
43
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While President John Adams was in office, what event challenged the foreign policy

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XYZ Affair

44
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What was the XYZ Affair

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  • where French officials demanded a bribe from American diplomats, essentially attempting to extort the United States, leading to heightened tensions and an undeclared naval war known as the Quasi-War between the two nations
45
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What did the Jay treaty accomplish in 1796

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The Jay Treaty, signed in 1794, primarily accomplished the avoidance of war with Great Britain by securing British withdrawal from the Northwest Territory

46
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Who was hurt most by Jefferson’s embargo trade

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American merchants and farmers

47
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What action took place that increased tensions between the U.S. and G.B. in 1807

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In 1807, the “Chesapeake-Leopard Affair” significantly increased tensions between the U.S. and Great Britain

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What was the “Chesapeake-Leopard Affair”

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  • where a British warship, the Leopard, fired upon the American ship Chesapeake, forcibly boarding it to search for British deserters, killing several American sailors; this incident prompted President Jefferson to enact the Embargo Act, further straining relations between the two nations
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Which event led to the policies established by the Monroe Doctrine

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The event that primarily led to the policies established by the Monroe Doctrine was the wave of independence movements in Latin America, which caused concerns among European powers about potentially reasserting colonial control over newly independent nations, prompting the United States to declare that the Americas were closed to further European colonization and interference

50
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Who advised President Monroe that the US should boldly speak for itself on its policy in the Americas

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John Quincy Adams
- his Secretary of State

51
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What was the goal of the Monroe Doctrine

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The goal of the Monroe Doctrine was to prevent European powers from establishing new colonies or interfering in the affairs of newly independent nations in the Western Hemisphere

52
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What was the result of the Monroe Doctrine

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  • Limited European influence
  • U.S. regional hegemony
  • Manifest Destiny justification
  • Controversial interventions
53
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Explain limited European influence

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European powers largely respected the doctrine and refrained from establishing new colonies in the Americas

54
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Explain U.S. regional hegemony

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The doctrine established the U.S. as the primary power in the Western Hemisphere, allowing it to influence political developments in the region

55
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Explain Manifest Destiny justification

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The Monroe Doctrine, combined with the idea of Manifest Destiny, later provided justification for U.S. expansion into territories like Texas and the Southwest

56
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Explain Controversial interventions

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Later interpretations, like the Roosevelt Corollary, allowed the U.S. to intervene militarily in Latin American countries, often viewed as a form of U.S. imperialism

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