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hamilton planned to pay off the war debts, raise government revenues, and create a national bank through this finanacial plan. he planned on raising government revenue through tariffs, and making the states pay taxes. the southerners thought they had already payed their taxes, and weren't too happy about this.
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Whiskey Rebellion was a pretest against the tax that farmers were going to have to pay if they used leftover grain to make whiskey. Washington and his army stop the insurrection proving that they had control over those who wanted to disagree with the law.
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the democratic-republican party forms, it favored states rights and was led by thomas jefferson and james madison. the first party system was made up of mostly democratic republicans. it was the opposite of federalist and controlled presidency and congress
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george washington announced the neautality proclamation saying that america would take no sides with france or great britain and would provide nothing for either of them.
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the climax of the whiskey rebellion was in 1794. the house of us tax inspector john neville was attacked. george washington sent commisioners to make peace in virginia and still enforced the tax.
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the amendment was adopted to overrule the decision of the supreme court in the decision of chisholm v. georgia. it deals with the states sovereign immunity.
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the address is washington saying he is not running for office a third time, he wishes the country well and says things he thinks are necessary for the well being of the country before he retires.
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barbari pirates off the coast of barbari would take american ships and make the people on it slaves. it was harder for the christians, especially if they didn't agree to convert to islam. george washington wanted to negotiate a peace treaty with barbarian leaders. this was the treaty of tripoli.
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the acts made it harder for aliens to live in the us and gave the government the option to throw them out or imprison them if thought necessary. this didn't go over well because people thought it gave the governement too much power.
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the logan act said that citezens could not negotiate with foreign governments.
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adams moved the capitol to dc and provided congress with 5000 dollars to get any books they needed.
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right before john adams left office he was allowed to pic the circuit and district judges. the act was repealed afterwards. it is knows as the midnight judges act because it was a last minute act during john adams presidency.
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the naturalization act allowed state and local courts to take any personal information from any aliens wntering the states.
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during thomas jefferson's presidency he payed 15 million dollars for the louisiana territory from france. this basically double the us in size, although it was considered "unconstitutional" because it never said that presidents could buy land. jefferson was worried that france and spain had power over the new orleans port.
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during jefferson's presidency he bought the louisiana territory which was thought of as a good move on his part so when re-election time came, he recieved 162 electoral votes.
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The battle was between the British, and the French/Spanish. The battle helped Britain regain it's military dominance. The us had nothing to do with this.
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The non-importation acts said that british goods could not enter the us. the acts were kind of a way to put the british in their place and say that they couldn't treat america the way they were.
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the act said american ships wouldn't leave until a negotiation between the us and europe was formed and they agreed to stop impressment. tthe act was formally ignored because the europeans didn't negotiate.
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James Madison, a democratic-republican won the election of 1808 against Charles Pinckney.
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Tecumseh was an american indian who thought it ridiculous that land could be sold. The Tecumseh rebellions was a war against the united states. Tecumseh's brother was known as The Prophet. The British were supplying the native americans with weapons.
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first case said to be unconstitutional, said that native americans did not own the lands and that they could indeed be sold.
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teh battle was fought in indiana between the native american, led by tecumseh and the prophet, and governor harrison's men. the natives were angry of the white men expanding and taking their land. the prophet died in this battle.
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james madison was re-elected in 1812 because he handled the issues with france and britain during his first term, and these issues were still going on.
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fought near lake erie during the war of 1812. united states vessels defeated british vessels which gave us the control of the lake for the rest of the war.
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meeting of federalists discussing secession, and new england's opposition which was considered disloyal and ruined the federalist party.
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an attack by the british on fort bowyer in mobile alabama. the attack was postponed when news of the treaty of ghent arrived. mobile was a part of the us now and was the only territory exchange during the war of 1812.
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1816 was the beginning of the era of good feelings. the era was after the napoleanic wars and gave america this sort of unity. associated with the presidency of james madison when the nation reached a point of "national harmony"
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the seminole wars were part of the american indian wars. the wars were conflicts between florida and the seminole. took place after andrew jackson destroyed negro fort in florida and the spansish in pensacola.
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This treaty said that the us and britain could have one fort and one cannon on lake champlain and two military vessels on the other lakes.
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at the end of the era of good feelings was a terrible financial crisis including bank failures and foreclosures called the panic of 1819. this set new economic boundaries for the us.
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the second great awakening was a time of christian revival which opened up the christian religion to millions and as much like the first great awakening. this great awakening lasted fron 1820-1860.
