Chapter 8 Part 1
Characteristics of women and political life in the new republic of the 1790s?
-took part in political discussions, read newspapers, and listened to orations, even though outside of New Jersey none could vote. -women were counted
How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?
Almost everyone supported it at first, because the French seemed to be following in Americas footsteps.
Edmond Genet was a French diplomat who:
Genet was a French ambassador sent to the Americas in an attempt to enforce the Franco-American alliance and to acquire troops to fight the British and Spanish. He felt that the Neutrality Proclamation was not an accurate representation of the American People. He was eventually forced to resign for his zealousness. Sig: Shows how the American people were not completely opposed to the Neutrality Proclamation. This was also the definitive sign of the decline of the Franco-American alliance.
What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?
He was executed.
Characteristics of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
It was the only time in U.S. history that the president commanded an army in the field.
All of the following men held a high executive or judicial office during George Washington's presidency EXCEPT
James Madison.
What led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed to the Federalist Party?
Jay's Treaty
Characteristics of the American response to Toussaint L'Ouverture's slave uprising, which led to the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804
refugees from Haiti came to the united states. the slaves seemed not men and women seeking liberty, but a danger to american institutions. the slaves having resorted to violence was widely taken to illustrate blacks' unfitness for republican freedom.
Fries's Rebellion:
resulted in a loss of support for Federalists in southeastern Pennsylvania
The Kentucky resolution originally stated that:
states could nullify laws of Congress
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:
the Alien and Sedition Acts
The Sedition Act targeted:
the Republican press
"Strict constructionists" believed:
the federal government could only exercise powers specifially listed in the Constitution.
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
was inspired by Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against:
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
Characteristics of Alexander Hamilton's financial program did NOT include
a national capital city with experimental manufacturing
The Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s:
criticized the Washington administration
Gabriel's Rebellion:
demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant is well known for
designing Washington, D.C.
Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to:
make the United States a major commercial and military power.
Objections raised by critics of Hamilton's proposals DID NOT include that..
The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America's future.
When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation's success depended on:
Maintaining political harmony.
Benjamin Banneker was:
Only African American in the years after the American Revolution to publish an almanac, occasionally including harsh commentaries on slavery and the slave trade 3: 1775-1825
The "quasi-war" was a war of the United States against:
Spain
Which international partner did Alexander Hamilton think most important for the survival and prosperity of the United States?
The British.
