Unit 2, Chapter 10 Flashcards
Bill of rights
What is it? What does it do?
(1791) popular term for the first 10 amendments to the u.s. Constitution
- secure key rights for individuals and reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the constitution
Judiciary act of 1789
Organized the federal legal system, establishing the Supreme Court, federal district and circuit courts and the office of the attorney general
Funding at par
What did Alexander Hamilton do?
Payment of debts, such as government bonds, at face value
-Alexander Hamilton proposed that the federal government pay its revolutionary war debts in full in order to booster the nation’s credit
assumption
How was this used?
transfer of debt from one party to another
-the federal government assumed states’ Revolutionary war debts in 1790
tariff
tax levied on imports
excise tax
What was this part of?
tax on goods produced domestically
- Hamilton’s financial program
- tax on whiskey
Bank of the United States
What was this part of?
(1791) charactered by congress as part of Hamilton’s financial program
- printed money and served as a depository for treasury fund
Whiskey Revotution (Who put this down and how?)
(1794) Popular uprising of whiskey distillers in Southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax on whiskey
- Washington put down the rebellion with militia drawn from several states
Reign of Terror
(1793-1794) Ten month period of brutal repression when some forty thousand individuals were executed as enemies of the French Revolution
Neutrality Proclamation
Who did this enrage?
(1793) Issued by George Washington, it proclaimed America’s formal neutrality in the escalating conflict between England and France
- enraged pro-French Jeffersonians
Battle of Fallen Timbers
(1794) Decisive battle between the Miami Confederacy and the U.S. army
- British forces refused to shelter the routed indians, forcing the latter to attain a peace settlement with the United States (treaty of Greenville)
Treaty of Greenville
(1795) the Miami confederacy agreed to cede territory reaching the Old Northwest to the United States in exchange for cash payment, hunting rights, and formal recognition of their sovereign status
Jay’s treaty
Who? What?
(1794) effort to avoid war with Britain
- negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay
Pinckey’s treaty
Signed with who? What?
(1795) granted Americans free navigation of the Mississippi and the disputed territory of Florida
- signed with Spain
Farewell address
(1796) George Washington’s address at the end of his presidency, warning against permanent alliances with other countries
