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''' XYZ Affair (1797-98)''' | ''' XYZ Affair (1797-98)''' | ||
* '''Alien & Sedition Acts, 1797-8: | * '''Alien & Sedition Acts, 1797-8: | ||
** Adams and congressional allies attempted to outlaw dissent | ** Adams and congressional allies attempted to outlaw dissent | ||
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'''Quasi-War''' 1798 | |||
''' Taxation''' and '''Fries's Rebellion''' | |||
* as US prepared for the Quasi-War with France | |||
** Congress imposed a "direct tax" upon all of the states | |||
*** = a federal tax apportioned by population per state | |||
**** the "Direct House Tax of 1798" was calculated by houses, lands, and slave ownership | |||
*** the only time a direct tax was ever imposed by Congress | |||
* the tax was unpopular | |||
* in 1799, John Fries, a German-American, organized resistance to the tax in Pennsylvania | |||
** local militia captured tax "assessors" (who were to "assess" property values for the tax assessment) | |||
** Federal marshals arrested resistance leaders, but local groups liberated them | |||
** Adams ordered federal troops to arrest the insurgents | |||
** Fries and others were arrested and charged with treason | |||
*** Adams granted amnesty to them in 1800 | |||
Other concepts & terms: | Other concepts & terms: | ||
'''Republican Motherhood''' | '''Republican Motherhood''' | ||
* idea that a woman's role was to nurture virtuous male citizens | * idea that a woman's role was to nurture virtuous male citizens | ||
'''Northwest Territories''' | '''Northwest Territories''' | ||
'''Indian Wars''' | '''Indian Wars''' | ||
''' new States''': | ''' new States''': | ||
* Vermont (territory ceded by New York) 1791 | |||
* Kentucky (“western”), 1792 | |||
* Tennessee (“western”), 1796 | |||
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BIG IDEAS
DETAILS Washington presidency, 1789-1797
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington expressing his reluctance to become president in 1788, Washington wrote: I should unfeignedly rejoice, in case the Electors, by giving their votes to another person would save me from the dreaded dilemma of being forced to accept or refuse... If that may not be–I am, in the next place, earnestly desirous of searching out the truth, and knowing whether there does not exist a probability that the government would be just as happily and effectually carried into execution without my aid."(First President’s Election Was the Last Thing He Wanted (washingtonpapers.org) Upon election in 1791, Washington wrote that he had give up "all expectations of private happiness in this world." (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/george-washington-the-reluctant-president-49492/ George Washington: The Reluctant President (Smithsonian Magazine)]
election of 1789
Bill of Rights adopted 1791 (BOR)
Hamilton-Jefferson split
Residence Act
Hamilton's 1791 "Report on Manufactures"
rise of Political parties
Constitutional interpretation
French Revolution & domestic U.S. politics
Jay's Treaty
"Pinckney's Treaty"
Washington declined to run for a 3rd term
Washington's "Farewell Address"
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address: The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts(for full text see Washington's Farewell Address (wikisource) John Adams presidency
XYZ Affair (1797-98)
Washington DC as national capitol Quasi-War 1798 Taxation and Fries's Rebellion
Republican Motherhood
Northwest Territories Indian Wars new States:
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