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Election of George Washingtion
First President od the United States. John Adams was hisVice President. Washingtion had two terms. Agreed to do the articles of Confederation. -
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The First Adminstration
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Whiskey Rebellion
The government wanted to collect taxes. Congress passed a tax on the manufacture and sale of the whiskey a type of alcohol. A armed mob attacked the tax collectors and burned buildings down. -
Jay's Treaty
Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America. -
Pinckney's Treaty
also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid. Americans and Spain had a congergations of a friedship. -
Election of John Adams
He was known as most active patriots in the period before and during the Revolutionary War. Adams had a compitition against James Madison. -
Washingtion's farewell Treaty
he wrote the treaty near the end of his second term. Washingtion wrote it to the people of the United states. The Treaty almost nearly got into the news paper. -
XYZ Affair
The letters X, and Z replace the French agents' names. Adams sent a team to Paris to try to resolve the dispute in the fall of 1797. As a result they called it the XYZ Affairs. -
Naturalization Act
increased the amount of time necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from five to fourteen years. -
Alien and Seditation Acts
It happened when the public found out about the X,Y,Z affair, many of the peopole got really angryat the foregin attempts to influence their government. -
VA and KY Resolutions
were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. -
Twelfth Ammendment
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President. -
Lewis and Clark Expidition
first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing from St. Louis on the Mississippi River making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. -
The Election of james Madison
It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804. -
The Star Spangled Banner
Is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry. Written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 -
Hartford Convention
When New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. -
Treaty of Ghent
modern-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
Battle of New Orleans
It was the final major battle of the War of 1812, American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. -
Rush- Bagot treaty
Richard Rush, acting U.S. secretary of state, and Charles Bagot, British minister to the United States, that provided for the limitation of naval forces on the Great Lakes in the wake of the War of 1812.