Vocabulary
An excise tax
What is a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licenses granted for certain activities?
Managed foreign affairs for the United States.
What is the Secretary of State?
Washington's aid in the Revolutionary War, Leader of the Federalist Party, and the First Secretary of the Treasury
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Author of the Declaration of Independence, the First Secretary of State, and the Third President of the U.S, founder of the Democratic Republicans.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Who won the election to become the second president of the United States and who was his vice president?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
A treaty
What is a formally concluded and ratified agreement between two countries?
Manage national finances for the United States.
What is the Secretary of Treasury?
What happened in France in 1793?
The French Revolution.
What did the Democratic-Republican Party favor?
Common man
State governments
What amendment to the Constitution change the voting process for electing the President?
12th Amendment
Nullify
What is to make of no use or to cancel out?
Managed the military under the first Presidents of the U.S.
What was President Washington’s reaction to the events in France in 1793?
Washington decided America would not get involved in the conflict, Americans would not help either side
What did the Federalist Party favor?
Banking and business
Strong central government
What was the result of the 1800 Presidential Election?
Tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
House of Representatives choose Jefferson on urging of Hamilton
General of the Revolutionary Army, First President of the United States, retired to Mount Vernon
Who is George Washington?
Who is the Attorney General?
Why were farmers so angry about the excise tax on whiskey that was supposed to lower the national debt?
Western farmers made whiskey from leftover corn to sell at markets. The tax hurt their incomes and was no different from the Stamp Act Tax the British had laid on them before the Revolution.
Summarize the National Bank debate between Hamilton and Jefferson.
Hamilton- Bank of US to store tax money, create national currency, loan money to citizens and government, “necessary and proper clause”
Jefferson- Bank unconstitutional, bank would favor business over farmers, give wealthy too much control over nation’s money, more difficult for state banks to open, 10th Amendment- states and people had the power to do what not enumerated in Constitution
What made the election of the Second President of the United States different from how Washington had been elected? Find three differences.
Political parties- Federalists vs Democratic Republicans
Smear campaigns
Candidate who received most electoral votes was President, second most became VP
Second President of the US, President during the "XYZ" Affair, father of the sixth president
Who is John Adams?
The four cabinet positions when Washington was President.
What are the Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of War, and the Attorney General?
How did the change in generals from General St. Clair to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne change how the United States end the threat of indigenous attacks on settlers in Ohio?
General St. Clair lost many battles to Little Turtle and Chief Tecumseh
Wayne won the battle of Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville was signed in 1795 with Little Turtle, indigenous people gave up hundreds of acres of land
What advice did George Washington give to the new nation in his Farewell Address? Provide three pieces of advice.
Keep the country unified
Warned against political parties
Stay away from permanent alliances with other countries
Describe the “X,Y,Z Affair”
American representatives were sent to France to negotiate a stop to French attacks on American ships. French Foreign Minister Talleyrand would not meet with the Americans, sent three others in his place. They demanded US pay $250,000 and loan France $10 million.