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Constitution
Washington and Friends

Jefferson and his friends and enemies
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It was called because of economic crises of the 1780s, the inability of the Federal government to directly tax the states, the continuing national debt resulting from the Revolution
What is the Constitutional Congress?
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He warned against the dangers of political factionalism
What George Washington warned the nation against in his “Farewell Address”?
100
It was Thomas Jefferson viewed the economic further of the United States
What is the idea that the nation should pursue and economic policy that encouraged its people to become a nation of yeoman farmers?
100
It was fought and he distinguished himself within it after the peace treaty was signed but before news of it arrived in America.
What is unusual or ironic about the battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812 and who is Andrew Jackson?
100
They were the main components of the Missouri Compromise
What are the prohibition of slavery north of the 36°30′parallel except within the boundaries of the state of Missouri and required the admission of Maine as a Free State with the admission of Missouri as a Slave State?
200
The date the Constitution was ratified and the name of the sate that sealed the ratification?
What are June 21, 1788 and New Hampshire?
200
The Federal government should assume the state’s debts from the Revolutionary War and should issue a series of Federal public bonds to finance the paying off of the nation’s Revolutionary War debts
What are parts of Alexander Hamilton proposal as a solution to the nation’s financial problems in the wake of the War for Independence?
200
He was John Adams' adversary and Vice President
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
He was Andrew Jackson's original Vice President and the author of Exposition and Protest
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
It was a response to the Cheasapeake-Leopard Incident
What was the Embargo Act?
300
it was an act of violence committed as the delegates were gathering for the Constitutional Congress and was prompted by the nationwide economic distress of the 1780s.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
The French ambassador whose provocative actions prompted Washington to issue a Proclamation of Neutrality
Who was Edmond Genêt.
300
DAILY DOUBLE They were some of the ways in which the Napoleonic Wars ultimately benefited the U.S. econnomy
What are, American seaports grew substantially, American ships carried more European goods, The American shipbuilding trade grew, Americans were spurred to develop their own manufacturing
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It was the tariff over which he negotiated a reconciliation of sorts between the two men thus avoiding the use full use of the "Force Bill" in south Carolina
What is the Tariff or 1828 or the Tariff of Abominations, over which Henry Clay negotiated a return to the rates of the Tariff of 1816, satisfying both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson and eliminating Jackson's need to use the powers granted by the "Force Bill?"
300
DAILY DOUBLE: It was the event that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "A firebell in the Night"
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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The principle Jefferson violated in making the Louisiana Purchase but which he had previously upheld in arguing against the First Bank of the United States
What is strict constructionism?
400
It was the specific rather than general (loose constructionism) means by which Hamilton defended his creation of the First Bank of the United States
What specifically is the "necessary and proper clause" of the U.S. Constitution?
400
They were the group of Americans most significantly affected by Jefferson's embargo Act
Who are New England businessmen and merchants?
400
He was the author of Exposition and Protest
Who is John C Calhoun?
400
They were things that helped to foster a new American culture?
What are newspapers, the telegraph, political pamphlets, and increasing democracy?
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the appointer of "midnight judges", the lawsuit brought against the sitting president when he refused to honor the appointments, and the principle that was affirmed as a result of the courts decision
Who are John Adams, Marbury versus Madison and the principle of judicial review?
500
After war between England and France broke out in 1793, among the founders and members of Washington's government he most strongly preferred closer relations with France
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
He was a member of thethis tribe and led the pan-Indian revitalization and resistance movement that threatened American western expansion in the 1810s
What is the Shawnee and who is Tecumseh?
500
It played an important factor in the election of Andrew Jackson
What is increasing Universal male suffrage and therefore increasing democracy within the U.S.?
500
It can be termed "Negative Activism" in that Jackson declined to agree to those things Congresses approved by the action
What is Jackson's use of the veto?