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VP - John Adams
Secretary of State - Thomas Jefferson
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This law protects trade and raises revenues for the federal government.
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The positions are—treasury, war, state, attorney general.
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The Judiciary Acts established the U.S. federal judiciary.
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George Washington named Philidelphia the Capital. He and John Adams lived there before the capital was moved to Washington D.C.
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The Revolutionary War left the United States in debt. Alexander Hamilton suggested a central bank to handle the war debt, and to form one standard currency for the states.
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The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments in the US Constitution. They granted a number of personal freedoms like freedom of speech.
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The law authorized the local governments to capture and return runaway slaves to their owners and impose penalites on anyone who helped them.
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"Citizen" Edmond Charles Genet, a French Minister, came to the US and was promoting the Americans to attack the British. President Washington regarded these actions as a violation to American neutrality.
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He and his business partner Phineas Miller put a patent on the cotton gin. They made a lot of them and set them up throughout the south. Problems erupted because they were pricing the gins to high and farmers began making their own cotton gins. Law suits were brought up but they lost them so they came to the conclusion the lower the price on the cotton gin.
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Excise tax on whiskey upset farmers who used whiskey to pay for things. Farmers began to terrorize tax collectors and as a result, George Washington sent federal troops to stop the rebellion.
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It granted America the right to navigate the Mississippi River and use the port of New Orleans, and Spain gets Northern boundary of Florida.
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Britain was intercepting neutral ships and John Jay was sent to negotiate. In the end, Britain had the right to seize cargo in route to France.
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In his speech, he warned the people of political parties, foreign alliances, and sectionalism (division between the North and the South).
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Federalist
VP - Thomas Jefferson -
France was seizing American ships headed for Britain. Adams sent Pickney to negotiate, French sent X, Y, and Z. French were trying to get bribes so the negotiations stopped and Adams sets up the Navy to protect our ships. The result was that America turned against France.
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It increased the amount of time necessary
for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years. But it was believed to protect national security and decrease the votes of the Anti-Federalist. -
-Alien: the president could deport any immigrant who critizied the government.
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Democratic - Republicans criticized the Alien and Sedition Acts, said they were unconstitutional. It was the first time states tried to override the federal government but not the last. Virginia's resolution was that the state government can declare federal law unconstitutional. Kentucky's resolution says that states had the right to nullify federal law.
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The Judiciary Act of 1801 created six distinct judicial circuits in order to increase the power of the judiciary.
