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100
In response to this event, more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of a local tax collector.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
100
Historians argue that this document aided in the boost in popular vote forJohn adams in 1796
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
100
"Like no other in the world [...] where one could get stuck in the mud on Pennsylania Avenue, and a carriage had to avoid tree stumps and grazing cows but there is excellent snipe shooting"
What is the White House?
100
"His Majesty will withdraw all His Troops and Garrisons from all Posts and Places within the Boundary Lines assigned by the Treaty of Peace to the United States. This Evacuation shall take place on or before the first Day of June One thousand seven hundred and ninety six, and all the proper Measures shall in the interval be taken by concert between the Government of the United States, and His Majesty's Governor General in America, for settling the previous arrangements which may be necessary respecting the delivery of the said Posts"
What is Jay's Treaty?
100
A power implied in the constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by congress and state legislatures.
What is Judicial Review?
200
He sought an additional seven cens a gallon in a tax secured by congress in 1791.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
In response to this diplomatic event, Congress expanded the US Army, and shifted the military focus from the western frontier to the atlantic coast.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle [...] we have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists"
What is Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address?
200
This diplomat authorized privately owned American vessels to seize British ships angering the president.
Who is Edmond Genet?
200
The body that elects the president.
What is the Electoral College?
300
This collection of people defeated the armies of Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair in 1791.
Who are the Miami Confederacy?
300
This is the time period (1798-1799) where treaties with France were repealed, and a trade embargo was placed on France.
What is the Quasi War?
300
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300
To prevent all disputes on the subject of the boundaries which separate the territories of the two High contracting Parties, it is hereby declared and agreed as follows: to wit: The Southern boundary of the United States which divides their territory from the Spanish Colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the River Mississipi at the Northermost part of the thirty first degree of latitude North of the Equator
What is Pickney's treaty of 1795?
300
it is the idea of governing a state as a republic where the head of state is a representative of the people who hold popular sovereignty rather than the people being subjects of the state.
What is Republicanism?
400
"Whereas it is necessary for the support of the government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise" 1789
What is the Tariff of 1789?
400
Quasi War Hysteria caused the following legislation
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
After this act was repealed, a new act in 1802 required that would be citizens needed only 5 years of residency.
What is the Naturalization Act?
400
"The general boundary line between the lands of the United States and the lands of the said Indian tribes, shall begin at the mouth of Cayahoga river, and run thence up the same to the portage, between that and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum, thence down that branch to the crossing place above fort Lawrence, thence westerly to a fork of that branch of the Great Miami river, running into the Ohio, at or near which fork stood Loromie's store, and where commences the portage between the Miami of the Ohio, and St. Mary's river, which is a branch of the Miami which runs into lake Erie"
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
400
"That if any person shall write, print, utter, or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered, or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering, or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either House of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government [...] shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
What is the Sedition act?
500
Fearful of a war, he provided the British with the US' s bargaining strategy.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
"Any alien, so ordered to depart, shall be found at large within the United States after the time limited in such order for his departure, and not having obtained a license from the President to reside therein, or having obtained such license shall not have conformed thereto, every such alien shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, and shall never after be admitted to become a citizen of the United States. " 1798
What is the Alien Act
500
Despite Jefferson's disapproval of the Judiciary act of 1801, it was a decision in this supreme coirt case that essentially upheld the hated act.
What is Marbury v Madison?
500
"Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those Powers respectfully; and to [...] exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition."
What is rhe Proclamation of Neutrality?
500
"That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive, subverts the general principles of free government"
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?