Take Five

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Take Five

• What does the political cartoon represent?

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Forming the Constitutions 1781-1787
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State Constitutions

• State constitutional conventions
• The Question of sovereignty
• Terms of office
• Elected officials
• Governors
• Separation of church and state
• Extending voting rights
• Exclusion to the rules

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State Constitutions (Cont)

• States Bill of Rights
• Women, slaves and Indians
• Abigail Adams
• Remember the ladies

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Articles of Confederation

• A league of friendship
• No Executive branch
• Legislative branch
• Terms of office
• Congressional powers
• Confederation treasury
• Continentals
• Tariffs and taxes
• State powers

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Western territories

• Defining boundaries
• Ceding western territory
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Townships
• Rectangular survey
• Thomas Jefferson
• Slavery in the west

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Northwest Territory 1787
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Townships
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Problems with the Confederation

• Money
• Foreign relations
• Gardoqui Treaty 1784
• Vermont
• Ethan and Levi Allen
• John Adams
• Confederation military
• Alexander Hamilton
• defects in the System of the Federal Govt
• Shays Rebellion

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Creating a new Constitution

• Constitutional Congress
• founding fathers
• Differing ideals
• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison John Adams

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A system of checks and balances

• Executive branch
• Electoral college
• Veto
• Legislative branch
• House of Representatives
• Senate
• Supreme Court
• A living document

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Slavery and the Constitution

• Article 1 Sec. 9
• Three-fifths compromise

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The process of the Ratification

• Anti-Federalists
• North Carolina
• Rhode Island
• Other Anti-Federalists
• Samuel Adams
• Patrick Henry
• Federalists
• Federalist Papers

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The Bill of Rights

• The 1st Ten Amendments

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Take Fivewhat does the political cartoon refer
to?
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Testing a New Nation
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The First Presidency

• Setting Precedents
• Mr. President
• The Vice President
• Establishing a Cabinet-mending political
  differences
• Attorney General-Edmund Randolph
• Secretary of State-Thomas Jefferson
• Secretary of War-Henry Knox
• Secretary of Treasury-Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamiltons Policies

• Balancing the budget
• Paying Federal debts
• Speculators
• Paying State debts
• The Assumption bill
• Compromise and Capital Hill
• Establishing a Federal Banking system
• Bank of the United States
• Officeholders
• Testing the Constitution
• Strict construction
• Broad construction
• The Protective tariff

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Washingtons 2nd Term in office

• Washingtons Foreign Policy
• The French Revolution
• King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
• The Reign of Terror
• Jacobins
• Maximilen Robespierre

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The French Revolution (cont)

• American sentiment
• Pro-revolutionary
• Jacobin Republicans
• Conservatives
• Federalists

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Great Britain declares war

• The Alliance of 1778
• The legal loophole
• America declares its neutrality
• Citizen Genet
• American privateers
• Little Sarah
• Asylum
• Rule 1756
• Opening the French West Indies
• American merchant marine
• Seizures
• Impressment

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Attempts at Peace

• Jays Treaty
• Pinckneys Treaty

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Washingtons Domestic Policy

• Western frontier
• Isolation and disease
• Indian wars
• Josiah Harmer
• Arthur St. Clair
• General Wayne
• Battle of Fallen Timbers

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Alcohol on the frontier

• Reasons for frequenting the bottle
• The Whiskey Rebellion
• The excise tax
• Suppressing the rebellion
• Presidential pardons
• Upholding the power of the Constitution

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Washington sets another precedent

• Washingtons Warnings
• Unresolved issues
• Conflicting political ideals
• Legal opposition
• Sectionalism
• Foreign policy

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Alexander Hamilton
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John Adams
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Charles Pickney
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Thomas Jefferson
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Aaron Burr
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Political factions in the election of 1796

• Federalists
• John Adams
• Thomas Pickney
• Jefferson Republicans
• Thomas Jefferson
• Tallying the vote
• A political fiasco

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The Presidency of John Adams

• A misunderstood man
• The French threat
• The XYZ affair
• Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, Elbridge Gerry
• Charles Talleyrand
• The High Federalists
• The American Navy
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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The Election of 1800

• Thomas Jefferson
• Aaron Burr
• James Bayard
• The Twelfth Amendment