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Although Adams had won, Thomas Jefferson had received more electoral votes. Adams became vice president.
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Ran with no one running against him and was a Federalist.
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President George Washington issued a tax on all the whiskey sold, the people rebelled and so George enforced it by bringing the U.S. military into action.
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The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect the rights of the citizens.
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The United States were upset with France because they were seizing our merchant ships. The 3 french(X,Y, and Z) wanted a lot of money from American Ambassadors, but Adams refused to pay and built up the U.S. navy.
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The Federalists issued the Sedition Act which made it illegal to speak against the government.
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President could expel any foreigner thought to be a threat to the country. Also made immigrants eligible for citizenship after 14 years, up from 5.
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Thomas Jefferson defeated John Quincy Adams the second time he campaigned because the common people all wanted Jefferson, a common man.
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Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President John Adams.
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Chief Justice John Marshall increased the power of the Supreme Court by allowing them the power to declare acts of congress unconstitutional, thus establishing Judicial Review at the federal level.
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Doubled the size of the country, Lewis and Clark Expedition- Exploration of new territories.
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Jefferson sent them along with Sacajawea to explore the new bought territory.
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Americans are no longer allowed foreign trade.
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James Madison, the Democratic republican, wins the election against Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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Thomas Jefferson changes the Embargo act to the Non-Intercourse Act which makes it so the people can trade with anyone, but the British or French.
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America declared war on the British in Canada for blockading their ports and impressing the American men
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The last battle of the war, and caused Andrew Jackson to become a household name because of his heroic efforts in defeating the British.
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James Monroe had issued the Monroe Doctrine. Monroe’s time as president was called the Era of Good Feelings.
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Court case where McColloch challenged Maryland’s right to tax the Federal bank in Maryland.
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Gave all white males the right to vote and not just the wealthy people.
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Missouri as a really big slave state, they tried to ban slavery in Missouri but there were already too much living in the area.
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Agreed to stay out of European affairs while closing the western hemisphere to further European Colonization.
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The election of 1824 had showed the era of good feeling. All the candidates were Democratic Republicans.
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Gibbons refused to pay the navigation tax made by New York for operating his steamboat. The supreme Court declared that New York’s law was unconstitutional.
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Majority rules, rise of the common people, increased power to the president.
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Jackson was the first president elected after the expansion of voting rights, allowed people who didn't own land to vote as a result of the election.
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President Andrew Jackson signs an Act declaring Indians will be removed from Mississippi and parts of Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia.
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the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers, they declared that Georgia’s law that white people couldn’t couldn’t be around the indians was unconstitutional March 3, 1832
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When the U.S. Bank was up for another charter, Jackson rejected it and closed the bank because he felt it had too much power.
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The Federalist were very strong in New England and had large pockets of support in the Middle States.
