Republic Vocab
Debt?
Money that is owed
How were political parties separated?
Disagreements over the strength of the national government.
Farmers were going against paying taxes on corn, and Washington showed how strong the New Federal Government was.
Whiskey Rebellion
What doubled the size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
What did Washington warn against in his farewell address?
1. NEUTRALITY
2. No political parties!
3. Know your neighbors
What is a ban or restrain?
Embargo!
Problems of the Early Republic:
1. Authority of the Federal Government
2. National security
3. Creating a stable economy
who set up a national bank to pay war debts and implemented protective tariffs.
Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton
What were Lewis and Clark tasked to map and document?
A Northwest passage, like a river that runs east to west
Who made/wrote the Alien and Sedition Acts? And why did it upset everyone?
John Adams, went against the first Amendment of the Constitution, (Basic rights)
A code of beliefs
Doctrine
What did the XYZ affair lead to?
What power did Marbury vs. Madison give us?
Judicial Review
What did the Treaty of Ghent do?
Stopped the War of 1812
How did the embargo act affect the country's economy?
It disrupts the economy, but then the American system is born!!
Sedition
troublemaking
What was saved during the BURNING OF WASHINGTON DC? And by WHO?
A portrait of George Washington saved by Dolley Madison
In the end, how did the embargo act help our country?
Helped implement/make the American System
What treaty purchased Florida from Spain in 1819
The Adams-Onis Treaty
What did the War of 1812 lead to?
Treaty of Ghent 1814
American System
Promoting industry in the USA with high tariffs on foreign goods. Henry Clay promoted this
Who was elected through a corrupt bargain?
John Quincy Adams
After what battle was the "Star Spangled Banner" written? And by Who?
Battle at Fort McHenry (Baltimore), and Francis Scott Key
What was the Missouri Compromise
To balance the power, Missouri was added as a slave state, and Main as a free state.
What did the Monroe Doctrine express and who wrote it?
Told the Eastern Hemisphere not to colonize in the West, written by John Quincy Adams