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Chapter 5
Broad/loose construction
Aka: Republicans
French Revolution
the war
Alien and Sedition ActsAlien Act- President can arrest and deport noncitizens who criticized the government
Sedition Act- crime for citizens to publically
criticize the federal government
Election of 1800:
Adams had isolated some federalists and
angered Democratic-Republicans
Did not win re-election
Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied
Went to the house to decide
Federalist
Last minute appointee of John Adams
35 years
1,000 court decision, writing over half of them
More than any other justice in US History
Agrarian republic
Needed land to make this happen
Louisiana territory
army at Detroit
Embarrassment to the nation
Treaty of Ghent:
Pre-war boundaries
Nothing about impressment
Napoleonic Wars
River
travel
Helped create NYC as a commercial hubpopulation surge
US remained agrarian
Farms became more productive
Steel plow
Mechanical reeper
Wanted:
Free public education
Working day from 12 to 10 hours
Labor unions (mostly skilled workers at this time)
Failed
home
Germans
Failed political revolution
More likely to farm
Poverty
Bad neighborhoods
Competition for jobs
Riots against African Americans
Prejudice against Catholics
Little education
High illiteracy rates
peculiar institution
Henry Clay
American System
Protective tariff
New roads and canals
New national bank
1st bank expired in 1811
New one established in 1816
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cant tax the bank of the United States
free states