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Other concepts & terms:  
Other concepts & terms:  


'''Republican Motherhood'''
'''Constitutional interpretation'''
* idea that a woman's role was to nurture virtuous male citizens
Constitutional interpretation:
 
* '''enumerated powers'''
'''Northwest Territories'''
** = powers specifically listed in Constitution
 
** ex. Article I, Section 8: ''Congress shall have the power to...''
'''Indian Wars'''
* '''implied powers'''
** “necessary and proper” = implied powers required to enforce enumerated powers
* '''strict construction'''
* = word for word interpretation
** advocated by Jefferson and Madison
** Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions called for it
* '''broad or loose construction (interpretation)
** = interpreted “necessary and proper” loosely, expansively
** advocated by Adams and Hamilton


''' new States''':  
''' new States''':  
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* Kentucky (“western”), 1792
* Kentucky (“western”), 1792
* Tennessee (“western”), 1796
* Tennessee (“western”), 1796
'''Northwest Territories''' and '''Northwest Ordinance''' of 1787
[[File:Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png|thumb|Northwest-territory-usa-1787|alt=Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png]]
* in 1878 the Continental Congress organized land ceded by England north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes into a "territory"
** was first post-colonial "incorporated territory" = formally organized and governed by Federal government
* American settlers moving into the Territory sparked conflicts with Native tribes, known as the '''Northwest Indian War'''
** Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, commander of the American Army and Revolutionary War hero, defeated Native resistance at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794
** '''Treaty of Greenville''' (1795) with the Western Confederacy, Native American Tribes led by the Delaware (tribe), formally opened the Territory to settlement
'''Political parties'''
* emerged by Washington's 2nd term
{| class="wikitable"
!
! '''Federalists'''
! '''Democratic-Republicans'''
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| Leaders
|| Adams, Hamilton
|| Jefferson, Madison
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| Policies
|| pro-national bank, pro-Fed gov powers, interpret constitution loosely, pro industry & commerce, pro-British
|| anti-national bank, states’ rights, interpret constitution strictly, pro farming, pro-French
|-
| Notes
|| party diminishes after War of 1812 War which it opposed and due to Monroe's adoption of some Federalist policies (bank, tariff: see '''Era of Good Feelings''')
|| becomes '''Democratic''' party; Jefferson considered its founder
|-
|}
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|-  
|}
|}