Chap 10 Kennedy

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Chap 10 - Kennedy

• Oh Yeah!

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Chap 10

• 1789 Washington Takes office with a unanimous
  vote, and it remains the only one in history.
• Bill of Rights ratified to the Constitution in
  1791 as the first ten Amendments.
• Sec of Treasury Alexander Hamiltons Economic
  Plan!
• Favored wealthy through the government and help
  the masses through the trickle down effect
• US govt would assume all debt
• 12 million foreign debt, 40 million US citizens
  War Bonds, 21.5 million in states debts
• Raise an 8 tariff on all imports (Southern Fury)
• Whiskey Tax Whiskey Rebellion (3 deaths)

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Chapter 10 Continued

• 1791 Federal Bank Chartered for 20 years by
  Congress. (1/5 owned by govt and 4/5 public) 10
  million in capital to begin.
• Political Parties
• Whigs (Patriots) v Tories (Loyalists)
• Anti-Federalists v Federalists
• Jeffersonian Demo-Republicans v Hamiltons
  Federalists
• French Revolution The commoners overthrow King
  Louis XVI (1792 heads roll)
• Jeffersonian Extension of US Revolution Lets
  help
• Federalists Uprising of the commoners Must be
  suppressed!

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Chap 10 Continued

• Washingtons Neutrality Proclamation of 1793.
  Indirectly broke the Franco-American Alliance of
  1778.
• British again?
• Land and Forts on US soil (Miami Indians)
• Sale of firepower and firewater to the Natives
• Impressed soldiers and seized vessels in West
  Indies (300)
• 1794/95 Jays Treaty (again?) Britain would pay
  damages if US pay pre-revolutionary debts.
• France begins seizing ships (300)
• 1796 Adams v Jefferson for Pres. Adams won
  Jefferson becomes Vice Pres. (that would not be
  fun and this law changed in 1804)

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Chap 10 Continued

• 1798 1800 Problems with France and the West
  Indies.
• Talleyrand and the XYZ Affair (John Marshall)
• War Preparations against France
• More Ambassadors to France to meet with Napoleon
  Convention of 1800 successful.
• Adams creates bad feelings for Anti-Federalists
• Alien Act Pres. Can deport undesirables and 14
  years necessary to obtain citizenship.
• Sedition Acts Cannot defame political figures
  especially the Pres., or suffer prison or fines.

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Chap 10 Finished

• Virginia (Madison) and Kentucky (Jefferson)
  Resolutions
• States were the final judge of governmental
  procedure
• States could nullify federal law collectively
• Ideas later used for secession of southern
  states.
• Chart on page 208