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Nancy Ward
- -Carokee Woman
- -Advocated Peaces
- -War Women in 1750
- -Believed fighting was futile
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Judiciary Act of 1789
Congress managed to quiet popular apprehensions by establishing in each state a federal district court that opperated according to local procedures
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Bill of Rights
James Madison played a leading role in drafting the ten amendaments
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Alexander Hamilton
Secretery of Treasury, was in charge of setting the administration's domestic priorities
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Reports on the Public Credit
Containing recommendations that would at once strenghten the country's credit, enable it to defer paying its debt, and entice wealthy investors to place their capital at its service
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Report on a National Bank
Money towards projects that would diversify the national economy through a federally chartered bank
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Whikey Rebellion
An uprising over Hamiltons decision to excise tax on domestically produced whiskey, Americans would also consume less alcohol
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Alta California
Perceiving Russia's move into Alaska as a threat, Spain responded by extending northward on the Pacific coast from Mexico, established in 1769
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Citizen Genet
Edmond Genet a French minister, name given during French Revolution
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Treaty of Greenville
General Anthony Wayne compilled a treaty with Indian tribes which opened most of modern day Ohio and parts of Indiana to white settlement and eneded US-indian hostility for 16 years
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Jay's Treaty
A British promise to withdraw troops from American soil by June 1796
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Treaty of San Lorenzo
With Spain, which won white settlers, duty-free access to world markets via the Mississippi River
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Election of 1796
Republicans, gathered for the first time since the Revolution that non-elites to participate in public affairs
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Quasi War (1798-1800)
U.S. forces seized 93 French privateers while losing only one vessel
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Alien and Sedition Acts
- Strict laws to protect national security
- -Alien Enemies Act
- -Alien Friends Act
- -Naturalization Act
- -Sedition Act
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