1. APUSH
Exam 3 Review

2. Practice Question
By 1786, even defenders of the Articles of Confederation accepted the fact that which of the following needed to be strengthened
A)The power to tax.
B)The executive.
C)The court system.
D)The army.

3. The Growing Pains of a New Government, 1789-1801
The Federalist Era
The Growing Pains of a New Government,

4. Washington’s Presidency of Precedents
Cabinet—Adams (VP), Jefferson (Sec of State), Hamilton (Sec of Treasury), Randolph (AG)
GW Unanimously chosen as president
Cabinet notorious for bickering b/w TJ and AH

5. Bill of Rights Civil Rights and Liberties—Amendments 1 through 8
States’ Rights and Personal Freedom—Amendments 9 and 10
Bound only national government, not state government, until 20th century

6. Practice Question
The most important issue left unaddressed when the Constitutional Convention adjourned was:
A)the question of counting slaves for representation.
B)whether to have an executive or not.
C)the absence of a list of individual rights.
D)the question of the power of the national government to tax.

7. Hamilton’s Schemes Tariff of 1789 First Report on Public Credit (1790)
Second Report on Public Credit (Excise Taxes)
Report on a National Bank
Report on a National Mint
Report on Manufactures

8. Consequences of Hamilton’s Scheme
Political and sectional debate
Constitutional Issues—What is “necessary and proper”
Political Schism—genesis of First Party System—Federalist v. Republicans
Whiskey Rebellion
Stronger National Government

9. Foreign & Indian Policy
French Revolution—Citizen Genêt
Jay’s Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
Pinckney Treaty

10. Jay’s Treaty
give America undisputed sovereignty over the entire Northwest
Temporarily eased US conflict with Great Britain
Most immediate cause for formation of Democratic Republican Party

11. Pinckney Treaty of 1795
Normalized relations w/ Spain (they gave us things due to a fear of an Anglo-American alliance against them)
Granted free navigation of the Mississippi to the US including right of deposit at New Orleans (impt. port)
Spain conceded large area north of Florida that had been in dispute

12. Farewell Address No permanent alliances; but temporary one’s are ok.
Mostly spoke of domestic issues: evils of political parties
Isolationism became dominant foreign policy for the next 100 years

13. 1796 election No third term tradition
Adams (Federalist) is President; Jefferson (D-Republican) is Vice President (71-66 electoral votes)
Orderly transfer of power

14. Adams Presidency
XYZ Affair: French agents demanded $$ to speak with foreign minister
Quasi-War with France: undeclared naval war from (10,000 man army authorized, Navy Dept created, Marines established)
Alien and Sedition Acts: designed to reduce power of Jeffersonian foes and silence anti-war opposition (1798): Sedition Act very unconstitutional but was not struck down immediately b/c Supreme Court was Federalist (law died in 1801)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolves: states had the right to nullify unconstitutional laws passed by Congress

15. Election of 1800
Republicans Win, but Burr and Jefferson have 73 votes each (led to 12th amendment)
Peaceful Transition of power
Judiciary Act of 1801: reduced the size of the Supreme Court from six justices to five; the Federalist Congress passed to increase the number of federal courts and judicial positions; President John Adams rushed to fill these positions with Federalists before his term ended. (aka Midnight judges act)

16. A Growing Nation

17. The American Peoples-1790
3.9 million inhabitants—we used to say “souls.”
750,000 African Americans; over 660,000 were slaves
150,000 Native Americans—not enumerated on census
48% of counted inhabitants were under age 16