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Chapter 8 notes

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Loyalty?
concerns
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Says that we will continue to trade with both countries
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Not enough gold to back it up
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speech read every year on Washington's birthday
Paper money was losing its value
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Meddled
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National bank
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Agriculture
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Wealthy people should rule
Peace mission
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Also doing this near France
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Located in Philadelphia
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Size of republic being built
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Greater separation of branches
Couldn't pay the soldiers
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Lack of popular confidence; new national capital
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John Rutledge
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Economy base
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Terms
Unrest in Europe
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Boston: 18 thousand
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Vote in congress
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Government would be Major stockholder
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Washington's farewell address
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America - 1772
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Need more revenue
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Responsible of the legal issues of the country
Postmaster general
Fifth
Who - farmers
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Largest city
Proclamation of neutrality - 1793
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Doesn't exist anymore
War department
Britain thought the U.S. would collapse in 10 years
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Washington's presidency (1789 - 1797)
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Constitutional reason - amendment 10
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President can fire people in the cabinets without senate approval
Spain is afraid U.S. & Britain will join up and move up against Spanish territories in north America
Where - Southwestern Pennsylvania
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Agree to make boundaries
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Custom duties
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Believed average people could, and should lead the country
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British agree to pay for shipping damages
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Pinckney treaty
West had to worry about how to get goods to market
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James Wilson
Wanted better relations with Spain than U.S.
Second
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Money stay in circulation, make businesses stronger, that will create a sound, and stable national currency
Result -
Strength of character
Balanced
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First bank of the united states
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British agree to leave the northwest territories
Rural
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Established the boundary between Georgia and Florida
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National finances
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Can transfer goods from riverboats to ocean going ships in new Orleans again, with no charge
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Prime minister
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Alexander Hamilton
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Hamilton
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Excise tax - 1791
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Washington never commanded this many troops at one time
Created court system
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Trade & industry more important
Believed
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Led by Jefferson
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Farmers rebel
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Establishes president authority over the executive branch
Questions of power
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Hamilton
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NEED TO KNOW ORDER
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Article 1 section 8
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Columbia is in downtown Manhattan
Born
First secretary of the Treasury
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Senate vote
Relations with great Britain
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foreign entanglements - permanent alliances
State department
Opposition
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Whiskey rebellion
First justices
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Baltimore: 13 thousand
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divisions in country - political parties
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Enumerated powers
died December 1799
Federalists
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Impressment
When - 1794
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Inaugurated April 1789
Jefferson - support the French
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Broken federal laws result in trial in supreme court
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President Washington is going to sednd militia of 13000 men to put down that rebellion
Tax on extra goods produced in a country
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Economy
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Wanted to go home to mount Vernon
Support
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Was very poor
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Americans prohibited from fighting on either side
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Problems with European countries
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Census
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Leadership style -
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"strict constructionists"
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Alexander Hamilton
Also known as San Lorenzo treaty
Election and inauguration
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Debt reparations
When - October 1795
Philadelphia: 42 thousand
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William Cushing
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Cabinet
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Called distillers
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Pay debts owed to British people in the U.S.
What -
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That the federal government should take responsibility to national and state debts
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New capital closer to the south
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"loose constructionist
1797
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John jay - first chief justice
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3 circuit courts
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Genius
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Jay treaty
Treasury department
Kentucky (1792)
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Elected by the electoral college, but decided to make it unanimous
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Trading posts
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He didn't believe that ordinary people should be able to run the government
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Established office of attorney general
Tariff of 1789
Served 2 terms of office
Solutions to financial problems
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Elected January 1789
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Alexander Hamilton - secretary
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Make whiskey
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Graduated from Columbia university
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Now called republicans
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Constitution
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Charter lasted for 20 years
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Mom worked in a tavern
U.S. owed other countries
Develop out of debate about the bank
Mouth of Mississippi is controlled by Spain
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Growth - doubling about every 25 years
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3 farmers are killed
Tennessee (1796)
Fourth
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13 federal district courts
Why -
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John Blair
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New York city was capital
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Only 10% of the American population lived in a city
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Characteristics
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Neither british or French warships could come into American ports
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Proposed
Proposed
Not seek office
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8% import duty
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Whiskey rebellion
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Thomas Jefferson
Result
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Supreme court with chief justice and 4 associate justices
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Now called the defense department
Never attempted
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Who - John Jay
U.S. treaty of alliance with France
French followed U.S.'s trail
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Spanish agree to stop the Indians from attacking Georgia settlements
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Necessary & proper clause
Character
Attorney general
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Federal treasury - tax money
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Alexander said to Jefferson "your people, sir, are a great beast!"
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Nevis, British west Indies
Chapter 8
notes
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Washington & Adams
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NY: 33 thousand
Tax passed - 1791
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Followed the constitution exactly
Third
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Some debt as a "national blessing"
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Loyalty of population
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When - 1794
Believed impossible
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Washington's Administration
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Replacement
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Political parties
2000 - 285 million
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Charleston: 16 thousand
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Vice president -
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Power over cabinet
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Americans can navigate Mississippi river & use new Orleans port for free
Vermont (1791)
1790 - 4 million people
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ggg
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Interpret the constitution Broadly in order to give the federal government the most power as possible
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West Indies
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Population
He didn't run for office
Hamilton - supported the british because we needed their trade and manufactory
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Doesn't believe in implied powers
Terms
Democratic-Republicans
Public debt
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France and Spain just signed an agreement
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95% lived east of the Appalachian mountains
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Capturing American merchant ships and not allowing free trade in the west Indies
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Washington gets concerned
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British would force American sailors to join the British navy
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New states
Angered many Americans
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Result
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Cabinet
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State banks cant survive competition from a national bank
Reason of treaty
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Thomas Jefferson believed opposite
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Making financial decisions
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Bank of England as his model
Who - Thomas Pinckney
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Relationship between U.S. and foreign affairs
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Judiciary act of 1789
Almost immediately after constitution was ratified
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Problems Facing The Federal government

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