AP United States History
Mr. M. Pecot
a) demographics: the census of 1790
b) western expansion underway
c) potential troubles:
- western states
- finances
- government-building
a) George Washington as president
- GW’s characteristics
- inauguration, April 1789
- first cabinet: TJ (Sec State); AH (Sec Treas); Henry Knox (Sec War)
a) Drafting the Bill of Rights
- The amending process
- James Madison’s approach
b) The 9th and 10th Amendments
- protections
- significance
c) Judiciary Act of 1789
- John Jay
a) Alexander Hamilton at the helm
b) The Hamiltonian Vision & Objectives– Trickle-Down Economics
- general philosophy
- bolstering national credit
· Funding at Par
· assumption of state debts
· arguments for “assumption”
· compromise with Va.
- national debt as a “national blessing”
c) Customs Duties & Excise Taxes
- Tariffs
- excise taxes
· whiskey
d) The creation of a National Bank
- Goals and structure of the proposed B.U.S.
- Constitutional debate over the BUS
· Jefferson’s critique - “strict constructionism”
· Hamilton’s response – “loose interpretation”
- the “elastic clause” (Art. I, Sec VIII, paragraph 18)
- Creation of the BUS
a) The Whiskey Rebellion
- Causes of the rebellion
- Response of the Washington administration
- Significance of the WR
b) Political Parties form
- response to growing power of federal government and Hamilton’s policies
- Federalists and Jeffersonian-Republicans
a) The anatomy of the French Rev
- early stages and the American response
- 1793: Reign of Terror begins
- Federalist v. Republican reaction in America
a) Terms of the 1778 Franco-American alliance
b) Reasons for American neutrality
c) Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
- provisions and reaction from Feds and Reps
- sets precedent for isolationism
d) (Citizen) Edmund Genêt challenges American neutrality
a) British “outrages”
- frontier posts
- fur trade
- Indian alliances
· Mad Anthony Wayne & the Treaty of Greenville 1795
- attacks and impressment in the West Indies
b) Jay’s Treaty 1794
- provisions of the treaty
- Republican response
- sectional tensions between North/South
c) Pickney’s Treaty (1795) w/ Spain
a) Two-term precedent set
b) Farewell address to Congress: “avoid entangling alliances”
c) Washington’s contributions
The Presidency of John Adams
a) The Presidential campaign of 1796
- the candidates
- election results and the two-party controversy
b) John Adams as president
- character and traits
- problems facing the Adams administration
a) France’s reaction to Jay’s Treaty
b) The XYZ Affair
c) Naval war with France, 1798-1800
- creation of the Dept. of the Navy
- hostilities on the high seas
d) Appointment of Thomas Jefferson as minister to France 1799
e) Convention of 1800
a) Anti-Jeffersonian legislation passed by Federalists in 1798
- Alien Act – anti-immigration act
- Sedition Act
· convictions – Matthew Lyon; James Callender
b) Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
- Jeffersonian fear of the Alien and Sedition Laws
- Ky. Resolutions (TJ); Va. Resolutions (JM) – 1798
· the “compact theory” of federalism
· nullification
- Federalist counter-argument – Constitution was a compact of the people, not the states
a) Federalists v. Democratic-Republicans
- general philosophy regarding the federal goverment
- characteristics of groups belonging to each party
· locations, occupations, social status
- differences in economic policies
- foreign policy positions