Social Studies Exam April 21, 2024

• Precedents


  Actions or decisions that serve as examples or guides for future similar situations
• Washington's precedents as president

  • Created a cabinet of advisors
  • Established a financial plan
• Washington's position on foreign relationships

  Don't create alliances with foreign countries because eventually one or the other will become dependent on the other one
• Washington's view on political parties

  They will divide us and not help us unify
• Washington handled the Whiskey Rebellion


  People stopped rebelling because they saw how Washington had handled and destroyed the rebellion against whiskey
• Hamilton's financial plan


  • Assumption - pay off all US debt each colony had their separate debt
  • National Bank
  • Excise tax on something popular like whiskey
  • Protective tariff to tax foreign goods
• Loose constructionist


  Someone who doesn't tend to follow the rules and figure out a way to get around the rules
• Federalist


  Someone who supports the constitution
• Democratic-Republican


  An anti-federalist is someone who doesn't support the constitution
• Importance of Marbury v. Madison

  • Gave the Supreme Court much more power to review the acts of the other branches and rule whether they are constitutional or not
• Alien Act


  The President can expel any immigrant he wants from the country
• Sedition Act


  Fines or jails the citizens who criticize or protest against the government
• X,Y,Z affair


  French were impressing American sailors and they demanded bribes, Adams did nothing about it and received tons of backlash from it
• Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory
• Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana territory for the US
• Results of the Louisiana Purchase

  • The United States gained a lot more land to explore and settle in
  • Gained a MASSIVE network of rivers including the Mississippi River which greatly increased and helped America's economy
• Jefferson was a strict constructionist

  The Louisiana Purchase went against his beliefs because the constitution didn't explicitly say the president could buy land
• Embargo Act


  Stopping trade with Britain
• Embargo Act


  Did nothing to Britain and greatly damaged America
• Reasons for the War of 1812

  • British Impressments of American sailors
  • War Hawks demanded they go to war
  • Natives had guns that said made in Britain
• Treaty of Ghent


  Britain would stop impressing American sailors
• Louisiana Purchase

  it was 828,000 square miles and

  it cost 15 million dollars and Thomas bought it
• Steam Engine


  it performs mechanical work
• Erie Canal

  Historic canal in upstate New York

   between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.
• Industrialization

  clays of the new system

  designed to connect the country and

  make transportation more efficient
• Clay’s American System

  Assisted the United States in becoming

   self-sufficient economically