Review for the Regents

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Review for the Regents

• Early Presidents

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Washington

• Precedents set cabinet, two terms in office.
• Farewell Address neutrality, stay out of
  foreign affairs (no foreign entanglements).

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Adams

• Alien Acts-more difficult to become a citizen and
  easier to arrest and deport non-citizens who were
  a danger to national security.
• Sedition- easier to arrest someone for
  criticizing the government.

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Jefferson

• Political Parties- Developed through custom and
  tradition (unwritten constitution).
• Federalists (Hamilton) and Democratic-Republicans
  (Jefferson).
• Louisiana Purchase- Doubled the size of the U.S.
  Required loose interpretation of the Constitution
  (elastic clause). Acquire the Mississippi River.

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Madison

• War of 1812- Causes impressment, War Hawks
  wanted to acquire Canada British giving arms to
  the Indians and encouraging them to attack
  settlers on the frontier.
• Treaty of Paris- gained nothing.
• National Anthem, White House, Future President
  (Jackson).

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Monroe

• Era of good feelings-New spirit of pride and
  national unity after the War of 1812.
• Monroe Doctrine- written by John Quincy Adams.
  No further colonization of the Western
  Hemisphere. Any attempt to do so would be an act
  of war. U.S. will stay out of European affairs.
• John Marshall- Chief Justice of the Supreme
  Court. Strengthened the power of the Federal
  government (McCulloch v. Maryland).

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John Quincy Adams

• Secretary of State- Wrote the Monroe Doctrine,
  Negotiated the purchase of Florida. Better
  Secretary of State than President.
• Florida- Adams-Onis Agreement. Purchase from
  Spain.

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Jackson

• Spoils System- nepotism, gave jobs to his
  friends.
• Pet Banks- state banks owned by his friends that
  Jackson deposited money into. He broke the
  National Bank.
• Trail of Tears- move Cherokees west of the
  Mississippi. Cherokees sue in court (Worchester
  v. Georgia) and win. Jackson moves them anyway.
  ¼ die along the way.