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XYZ Affair
The United States had in 1778 entered into an alliance with Fance , but after the outbreak of the French Rvolutionary war was both unable and unwilling to lend aid. THe anti_French Federalists gained the upper hand in the United States, and there was considerable antagoniam toward France. -
Election of George Washington
The first president of the U.S serving from 1789 to 1797, a powerful military and political leader of the u.s! Washington became president by popular choice, and over saw the controlled new trality in the wars upset in Europe, put down rebellion and won permission amoung americans of all types. -
Whiskey Rebellion
Excise tax imposed on the whiskey in 1791 by the federal goverenment, farmers in the western couties of Pennsylvnia engaged in a series of attacks on excise agents. -
Alien Acts
Were four bills passed in 1798 by the Ferderalist. Known collectively as the ALien and sedition Acts, the legislation sponsored by the Federalists was also intended to quell any political opposition from the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson. -
Election of Thomad Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson called his election "the revolution of 1800" because it marked the first time that power in AMerica passed from one party to another. -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas called his election “ the revolution of 1800” because t marked the first time that power in America passed from one party to another. -
Marbury v. Madison
William Marbury a commission as justiceof the peace, but the new Secretary of State, James Madison, refused to deliver it. Marbury then sued to obtain it. With his decision in Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John MArshall established the principle of judicial review, and important addition to the system of "checks and balances" created to prevent any one branch of the Federal Goverenment from becoming too powerful. -
Louisiana Purchase
By the signed on April 30, 1803, the United Staes purchased from France he Louisian Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of the landextending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains The price was 60 million fancs, about $15 million. -
Louisiana Purchase
By a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803, the United States purchased from France the Louisiana Territory, more than 2 million sq km (800,000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The price was 60 million francs, about $15 million; $11,250,000 was to be paid directly, with the balance to be covered by the assumption by the United States of French debts to American citizens. -
Marbury V. Madison
William Marbury a commission as justice of the peace, but the new Secretary of State, James Madison, refused to deliver it. Marbury then sued to obtain it. With his decision in Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle of judicial review, an important addition to the system of “checks and balances” created to prevent any one branch of the Federal Government from becoming too powerful. -
Lewis and Clark
1804-1806, first continental expedition to the pacific coast by the untied states. Commisioned by president thomas jefferson and led by two Virginia born veterans of indian wars in the Ohio Valley, lewis and clark, the expedition had alot of goals. -
Embargo Act
was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic wars. -
Election of James Madison
This election took place in the shadow of the war of 1812, madison was also relected with 50.4 percent of the popular vote. Making the election the closest up to that point in history. -
War of 1812
This war as between two fairly new states in 1812 the United states of America and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its North American colonies in Canada. -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
In 1816, congress charted the second bank of the u.s. In 1818, the state of Maryland passed legislation to enforce taxes on the bank. James McCulloch the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax. in a decision, the court said that congress had the power to organize the bank and that Maryland could not tax things of the national government in the execution of constitutional powers. -
Missouri Compromise
passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery.Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Its settlers came largely from the South, and it was expected that Missouri would be a slave state. -
Monroe Doctrine
A rule of the U.S, stated that more labor by european nations to claim land or conflict with states in North or south America would be seen as acts of invasion requiring u.s interuption. The doctrine said that the u.s would not interfere with existing european colonies of meddle in the private information of European countries. -
Election of 1824
Election of 1824 had left supporters of Andrew Jackson bitterly disappointed. He had garnered the most electoral votes, but had been denied the presidency by the House of Representatives. -
Election of Andrew Jackson
1829 to 1837- A politician and army general who beat the creek indians at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the Britsh at the Battle of New Orleans. one who beat the second party system in the 1820's and 1830's as president he beat the national bank and relocated most indian tribes from the southeast to west of the Mississippi River. -
Indian Removal Act
This act was signed into a law by president jackson on may 28, 1830. The removal act was strongly supported in the south, states were ready to gain access to lands! in 1823 case of johnson v. M'lntosh, the supreme court made a decision which was that indians could take lands within the u.s, but could not permmantly have that land. -
Worcester v. Georgia
A case in which the united states supreme court cleared the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statue that banned non indians from being present on indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
In this case a steamboat owner who did buisness between New York and New Jersey challenged the monopoly that New York had granted, which forced him to gain a special opperating permit from three state to handle on its waters. chief Justice Marshall devoloped a good defintion of the word commernce, which included sterring on interstate watterways. -
Sedition Acts
was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. One historian of American civil liberties has called it "the nation's most extreme anti speech legislation."
