Constitution 1787-1788
First American constitution that established the United States as a loose friendship of states under a weak national Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Popular uprising of distillers in southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Diplomatic conflict between France and the United States when American envoys to France were asked to pay a hefty bribe for the privilege of meeting with the French foreign minister.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Electoral victory of Democratic Republicans over the Federalists, a peaceful transfer of power between rival parties solidified faith in America's political system.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
Act of forcibly drafting an individual into military service, employed by the British navy against American seamen in times of war against France.
What is impressment?
Armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
It proclaimed America's foreign policy in the escalating conflict between England and France, a statement that enraged pro-French Jeffersonian.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation?
This political party, one half of the first American party system, was led by Thomas Jefferson, feared centralized political power, supported states' rights, opposed Hamilton's financial plan, and supported ties to France. It was heavily influenced by agrarian interests.
What is the Democratic-Republican party?
Federal justices appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency.
What are the midnight judges?
Conflict developed when a British ship, in search of deserters, fired on the American Chesapeake off the coast of Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake affair?
A policy for administering newly acquired territories; it included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories
What is the Northwest Ordinance 1787?
Negotiation between Britain and the U.S. which included a British promise to evacuate outposts on U.S. soil and pay damages for seized American vessels, in exchange the U.S. repays pre-Revolutionary war debts...
What is Jay's Treaty?
In 1798, Adams was given power to deport "dangerous" Aliens, lengthen the residency requirement for citizenship, and restrict freedom of speech and the press during war by these controversial laws.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Supreme Court case that established the principle of "judicial review."
What is Marbury vs Madison?
This banned the export of all goods from the United States to any foreign port.
What is the Embargo Act?
"Large states" proposal for the new constitution, calling for proportional representation in both houses of a bicameral Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This warned against "permanent alliances" with other nations. Should only forge alliances on a temporary basis.
What is the Farewell Address?
This refers to a person who believes that the "elastic clause" of the Constitution gives the central government wide latitude of action, holding that powers not explicitly set forth in the Constitution ma be exercised if such powers are "necessary and proper" in order to carry out powers that are specifically stated.
What is a "loose constructionist"?
War incited by a slave uprising in French-controlled Santo Domingo, resulting in the creation of the first independent black republic in the Americas.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Edicts issued by the British crown closing French-owned European ports to foreign shipping.
What are the Orders in Council?
Ideal of family organization and female behavior after the American Revolution that stressed the role of women in guiding family members toward republican virtue.
What is Republican Motherhood?
These documents argued that states were the final arbiters of whether the federal government overstepped its boundaries and could therefore nullify, or refuse to accept, national legislation they deemed unconstitutional.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
Access to New Orleans and the Mississippi River were the result of this agreement with the Spanish in 1795.
What is Pinckney's treaty?
Four-year conflict between the American navy and a North African nation over piracy in the Mediterranean which forced Jefferson to intervene and eventually secure a peace treaty.
What is the Tripolitan War?
This reopened trade with all but the two warring nations, Britain and France.
What is the Non-Intercourse Act?