Vocab
Define Tariffs
Taxes placed on imported goods
Who led the Democratic Republican party during the Nations early years?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Who became the Nations 1st president on April 30, 1789?
George Washington
What significant event happened in 1803?
President Jefferson signed a treaty to purchase the Louisiana Territory, doubling the size of the United States.
The largest share
Plurality
Believed in a National Bank. True or False
False
True
Eligibility to vote was restricted to men who?
Owned land
How did white settlers advance westward?
Military Force and ignoring treaties.
Bureaucracy
Where did this party believe power should belong?
Within the States
National Bank
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Historic shift were people left their homes and farms to work in factories powered by machines.
A meeting in which delegates choose a party's candidate
Nominating Convention
This group supported Agricultural Policies. True or False
True
Federalist favored what type of government?
Strong Federal Government.
White settlers hoped to fill what land?
Land West of the Appalachian Mountains
Easier travel, new jobs, and growing wealth
The practice of incoming presidents replacing current government employees with their supporters
Spoils System
Explain Strict Constructionist theory.
Believe they should do exactly what the Constitution allows.
Explain Loose Constructionist theory.
Felt they could make any law they felt necessary as long as its not prohibited by the Constitution.
Between 1791 and 1803, the United States added what four new states?
Vermont, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky
Eli Whitney's cotton gin enabled what?
Cotton production to skyrocket