CHAPTER 9 the Confederation & the Constitution

CHAPTER 10 – Launching the New Ship of State

Growing Pains  population characteristics/distribution Washington for President  electoral college vote

 temporary capital

 Cabinet

o Cabinet members: The Bill of Rights  amendment process choice/why? Bill of Rights o author

o basic freedoms

 Ninth Amendment Judiciary Act of 1789  Tenth Amendment

o John Jay Answer: What important steps were taken by the first Congress?

Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit  Alexander Hamilton Funding at par  economic plan for new nation

 Assumption

o Hamilton’s reasoning for assumption

 state concerns/compromises

o new capital Customs Duties and Excise Taxes  national debt Excise revenue o asset of debt to a nation Customs duties  money to pay interest (see chart on pg. 195)

 tariffs to protect what? why?

 excise/whiskey tax Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank  Bank of the United States

o structure

1 o purposes

Strict construction  Jefferson’s views

Loose  Hamilton’s response/argument construction  bank supporters/opposition Elastic clause  charter Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania  Whiskey Rebellion

o complaints

 Presidential response to rebellion

 consequences The Emergence of Political Parties  financial successes

 financial liabilities

 Founders’ views on political parties

 emergence of a two-party system (what were the first two?)

o benefits to a democracy The Impact of the French Revolution  which political party supported the Revolution the most?

Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation Neutrality  Franco-American Alliance terms Proclamation of 1793  Jeffersonian Dem-Rep views on alliance

 Washington’s belief/why? isolationism  Citizen Genêt (also see Amsco pg. 105)

Answer: Explain the reasoning for and against Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation?

Embroilments with Britain  BR frontier forts

 Miami War Treaty of  Battle of Fallen Timbers Greenville impressment  Jeffersonian argument

 Federalist argument Jay’s Treaty & Washington’s Farewell  Hamilton’s interference

2  terms of Jay’s Treaty

 Jeffersonians’ reaction/why?

Right of deposit  Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795 (also see Amsco pg. 105)

 Washington’s Farewell Address

o Washington’s advice (also see Amsco pg. 108) John Adams Becomes President  why Adams?

 1796 Dem-Rep candidate 12th Amendment  outcome of election High Federalists  challenges to Adams’ presidency Unofficial Fighting with France  FR reaction to Jay’s Treaty

 diplomatic mission

 XYZ Affair

o rallying quote for Americans “…”

o Navy/Marine Corps

o quasi-war Adams Puts Patriotism Above Party  why did Adams avoid war?

 Napoleon

 Convention of 1800 “alien” The Federalist Witch Hunt  Alien Acts

o purpose of Alien Acts

 Naturalization Act (Amsco pg. 111)

 Sedition Act

o violated what?

o why not declared unconstitutional? Compact theory The Virginia (Madison) and Kentucky (Jefferson) Resolutions  Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (Amsco pg. 111)

o authors nullification o opinion on appropriate response to Alien & Sedition Acts

o Federalist response Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans

3  Federalist beliefs/viewpoints

 Democratic-Republican (antifederalists) beliefs/viewpoints

 Jeffersonian Republican view on government

o view on suffrage

o view on slavery Answer: What was more dangerous to the U.S. Constitution: the Alien and Sedition Acts or the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? Explain.