Chapter 10 & 11

Made an alliance with Britain

Remained in office only two terms

Kept the alliance with France

Avoided involving America in European wars

Setting an excise tax

Limiting the power of the central government

Creating a sound monetary policy

Protecting well-to-do manufacturing interests

Establishing a national bank

Jefferson and other Republicans condemned it as a Federalist court-packing scheme.

It was repealed the following year.

It created sixteen new federal judges.

It resulted in the appointment of William Marbury to the Supreme Court.

Adams used the act to appoint “midnight judges” on his last day in office.

The resale of seized American goods by the warring nations of Britain and France

A prohibition on the export of American goods

The seizure of neutral ships by warring nations

The capture and forced military service of American seamen by the British

Blocking American ships from entering French and British ports

) it marked the first tax rebellion against the new republic.

it led to the strengthening and increased credibility of Washington’s government.

it was the first protest to make its case without violence.

distillers were successful in their push to have the government repeal its tax on whiskey.

) it included many former veterans of the American Revolution.

It made U.S. isolationism possible.

It more than doubled the size of the United States.

) It required a constitutional amendment for the purchase to be completed.

Its 828,000 square miles cost $10 million.

It set precedents for further expansion.

Whiskey Rebellion

Rebellion at the Bastille

Shay's Rebellion

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson

Democratic Republican John Adams

Federalist John Adams

Federalist Thomas Jefferson

) explore opportunities for further conquest of terr tories held by Mexico and Spain.

search for gold and other valuable minerals.

establish U.S. dominance over Indian populations in the region.

) forge trade links with French, Indian, and Spanish settlers in the region

be a scientific and geographic study of the Louisiana territory.

he failed to conquer Santo Domingo, a necessary first step.

he hoped the United States would become powerful enough to thwart Britain.

he feared that Britain, with control of the seas, would wrest control of Louisiana from the French.

he hoped to prevent a U.S.-British alliance against France.

he feared America might seize it militarily.

underestimated British resistance and determination.

did not consider that other countries would step in to fill England and France’s import needs.

did not foresee the massive nationwide protests by American citizens.

overestimated the importance of American goods overseas.

did not factor in the difficulty of enforcing the embargo at home.

Federalist John Adams

Federalist Thomas Jefferson

Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson

Democratic Republican John Adams

renewed the charter of the Bank of the United States.

gave the Supreme Court the authority to interpret the Constitution.

said only states can determine the validity of federal laws.

overturned the Judiciary Act of 1801.

) reinforced the importance of the Constitution as the bulwark of national law.

He hoped to shift wealthy creditors’ obligations and allegiances from the states to the federal government.

He hoped to end the practice of speculating.

He wanted to prove the federal treasury was solid enough to handle the debt.

He supported fiscal policies that aided the masses.

He wanted to put the new republic on more solid financial ground.

) the French diplomatic minister sent American ambassadors home.

the French refused to compensate American merchants for goods seized in their ships

French importers had blocked American com- merce from entering Europe.

they likened it to a bribe rather than respectable diplomacy.

) French officials arrested America’s diplomatic envoy John Marshall.

The Bank of the United States

The excise tax

Assumption of states’ Revolutionary War debts

Funding the national debt

The protective tariff

Congress may pass only those laws and take only those actions deemed necessary to conduct the business of the United States.

in carrying out its duties, the central government can take any measure not specifically prohibited

the central government can only act as defined by the Constitution.

the judiciary branch should be the final voice in interpreting the law.

all powers not expressly given to the central gov- ernment belong to the states.

was based on an accurate assessment of America’s military and diplomatic strengths and weaknesses.

launched America’s isolationist foreign policy tradition.

united Federalists and Jeffersonians around a single cause.

) actually served the French more than American entry into the war might have

marked a departure from the Franco-American Alliance of 1778.

raise residency requirements for citizenship.

grant the president the right to deport foreigners.

) boost the power and popularity of Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans

silence critics of the Federalist government.

target immigrant voters

remained unchanged

was reversed

grew even more rigid

compelled him to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts

caused him to reject slavery