Chp 5 And Chp 6

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Olive Tree Petition

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Prohibitory Act

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Common Sense

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Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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George Mason

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Continental Congress

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Articles of Confederation

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George Washington

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Bunker Hill

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General Thomas Gage

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Hessians

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Lord Cornwallis

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Natahnael Greene

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John Jay

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Women during Wartime

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Abigail

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Civic Virtue

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Ordinance of 1784

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Northwest Ordinance

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Shay’s Rebellion

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Alexander Hamilton

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He was the first secretary of the treasury and helped the nation financially. His advocacy of strong national government brought him into conflict with Thomas Jefferson and others, his political philosophy was ultimately to prevail in governmental development.

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The Founding Fathers

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The Founding Fathers were delegates to the Constitutional Convention each representing their state all except Rhode Island attended.

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The Virginia Plan

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Called for a new national legislature consisting of two houses with the lower based on population and upper be elected by the lower house.

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The Great Compromise

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Lower house be based on population with one salve counting as 1/3 of a person. Each state would have two representants in the upper.

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James Madison

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was the main author of the US Constitution, and called "Father of the Constitution". He wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, and responsible for the amendments to the Constitution. He believed that checks and balances were needed to protect individual rights from tyranny.

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Sovereignty

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when a state is stable and has no outside influences

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Separation of Powers

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The state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that no branch has more power than the others.

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Federalists

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Formed by Alexander Hamilton. His supporters grew into the Federalist Party committed to a nationalistic government. The United States' only Federalist president was John Adams

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Anti Federalist

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The Anti-Federalists did not want to ratify the Constitution. Complained that the new constitution had no Bill of Rights.

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The Federalist Papers

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85 essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet.

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The Bill of Rights

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The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution introduced by James Madison.

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The Cabinet

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The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive department: Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and Attorney General.

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Bank of the United States 1790’s

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The Bank was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government. Officially proposed by Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, to the first session of the First Congress in 1790

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Was a tax protest in Pennsylvania in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington, against Alexander Hamilton's program to centralize and fund the national debt. Put down after Washington gathered troops and marched to intimidate.

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Citizen Genet

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A French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.

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Jay’s Treaty

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Jay's Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, solved many issues left from the American Revolution and the Treaty of Paris of 1783, and opened ten more years of trade during the French Revolution Wars

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Pinckney’s Treaty

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Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and the United States. Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain.

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the quasi War

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An undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800 after French ships took American ships hostages.

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The XYZ Affair

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Three French agents demanded major concessions from the United States as a condition for continuing bilateral peace negotiations. Was part for the quasi war.

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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A series of acts passed to limit the number of immigrants entering the U.S.

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Stated that the federal government had no right to exercise powers not specifically delegated to it under the terms of the compact

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Aaron Burr

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served as the third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson, and was the first Vice President to never serve as President.

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The Judiciary Act of 1801

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Represented an effort to solve an issue in the U.S. Supreme Court during the early 19th century