History notes for lecture #2
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- Emargo Act of 1807
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-US will export nothing
-US will import anything
-US vessels may sail no foriegn port
-Foriegn vessels may only clear US port in Ballast - Non-Intercourse Act of 1809
- -US will trade with anyone except Great Britian and France
- Pinckney's treaty
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-The US has the right of navigation on the MS River
-The US gets right of deposit in New Orleans
-Neither of the countries will send their indians to kill eachother
-We both agree to the border between Spanish Florida and the US (32 parallel) - Jay's treaty
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-England will demilitarize Great LAkes
-England will recognize the rule of 1757 (England would not attack our ships in nuetral water, but if we entered French territory they could seize them) - Treaty of Ft. Greenville
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-Indians get 10 thousand dollars
-US gets all their territory
-Indians get new homeland in Oklahoma -
Hamiltons Plan
Report on the Public credit -
1. bank
2. currency act
3. Redemption on Par
4. Assumption Bill
5. Excise tax
6. Modest national debt
7. tariffs
8. Payment plan of foreign debt -
Hamilton's Plan
Report on Manufactures - 1. Subsidies
- Currency Act
- established the dollar as the national currency
- Redemption on Par
- The people traded there continentals for US savings bonds
- Assumption Bill
- -federal government would assume the debts of the northern states and pay the southern states the equivelant amount
- Payment plan of foreign debt
- we owed france and spain 11 million dollars so we created a repayment scheldule
- Excise tax
- a tax that was on one particular product
- tariffs
- in 1787 there was a 7% tax on everything coming into the country
- Winners of the election of 1796
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president: John Adams (federalist)
Vice president: Thomas Jefferson (Anti-federalists) - Running for office in the elections of 1796
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Antifederalists:
thomas jefferson (Viginia)
Aaron Burr (Nnew York) - XYZ Affair
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-US will loan Francs 12 million dollars at no interest
-US will give each of frances 5 executive officers 250 thousand dollars each
-President Adams will publically apologize for any anti-french statements he has made - Alliance of 1778
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-France will fight with us until we win our independance
-The US agrees to protect Frnech interests in the western hemisphere - secretary of state
- Thomas jefferson (Anti fed)
- secretary of treasury
- Alexander Hamilton (federalist)
- Secretary of war
- Henrey Knox
- Attorney General
- Edmund Randolph
- Naturalization act
- It increases residency requirements from 7 years to 14 years
- Alien Act
- President may imprison or expel dangerous aliens
- Alien Enemies Act
- president may imprison/expel dangerous aliens during war
- sedition act
- illegal to write or publish anything of a false, scandelous, or malicious nature about the government or any of its officers
- Essex Junto
- meeting of the federalists to discuss war plans
- Agreement between Burr and Jeffersoon in the 1800's
- Jefferson promises not to get rid of the federalists in the government
- War of 1812
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1.America wants Canada
2.America invades out of Fort Detroit and into Canada
3.America surrenders Fort Detroit and gains none of Canada
4.We negotiate with Germany at Ghent - Francis Scott Key
- wrote the star spangled banner
- The Treaty of Ghent
- Status Quo Antebellum
- The British Plan for taking over America
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-British troops march south down the Hudson river valley to New York City then move on to Philadelphia
-Another British troop came to the cheapeake bay, dropped off an army, went to Wahington DC and take over Baltimore by reducing Ft. Mchenrey
-another army out of jamacia will take everything from New Orleans to the MS River