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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Citizen Genet affair|French Ambassador Genet sparked outrage by his attempts to raise money and a miltia from US citizens to fight in France's war against Britain and Spain; Washington demanded his removal as ambassador}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Citizen Genet affair|French Ambassador Genet sparked outrage by his attempts to raise money and a miltia from US citizens to fight in France's war against Britain and Spain; Washington demanded his removal as ambassador}}</ul></li> | ||
* Democratic-Republicans | * Democratic-Republicans | ||
* Federalists | * Federalists | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:French Revolution|the 1789 French Revolution, in part inspired by the American Revolution, divided Americans politically between those who supported the French Revolution and those who, if not siding with the British necessarily, opposed the increasingly radical nature of the French Revolution}}</ul></li> | |||
* impressment | * impressment | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:internal improvements|Whig program, originating in Alexander Hamilton's ideas, of promotive national unity and economic activity via federal investment in roads and canals (paid w/ tariffs and land sales) with economic and industrial protection via tariffs}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:internal improvements|Whig program, originating in Alexander Hamilton's ideas, of promotive national unity and economic activity via federal investment in roads and canals (paid w/ tariffs and land sales) with economic and industrial protection via tariffs}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jacobins|following the French Revolutionary movement, Americans who formed clubs to support the French Revolution called themselves the "Jacobins"; they called one another "citizen" and considered themselves heirs to American Revolutionary ideals }}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jay's Treaty|1794; settled dispute with British over the Canadian border and British military presence in the Northwest Territory and impressment of American sailors; among terms, the treaty encouraged American trade with Britain, to which Jeffersoians objected (they prefered relations with France), as well as the absence of compensation from Britain for lost slaves during the Revolutionary War, which southerners had insisted upon}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jay's Treaty|1794; settled dispute with British over the Canadian border and British military presence in the Northwest Territory and impressment of American sailors; among terms, the treaty encouraged American trade with Britain, to which Jeffersoians objected (they prefered relations with France), as well as the absence of compensation from Britain for lost slaves during the Revolutionary War, which southerners had insisted upon}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jeffersonians/ Jeffersonianism|adherents to Thomas Jefferson's vision of "American republicanism" based upon ; the philosophy was largely anti-commercialism (esp. banks, factories, merchants), anti-urban, and anti-(informal) aristocracy; Jeffersonianism supported universal whilte male suffrage and grass-roots democracy based on independent farmers}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Jeffersonians/ Jeffersonianism|adherents to Thomas Jefferson's vision of "American republicanism" based upon ; the philosophy was largely anti-commercialism (esp. banks, factories, merchants), anti-urban, and anti-(informal) aristocracy; Jeffersonianism supported universal whilte male suffrage and grass-roots democracy based on independent farmers}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Whiskey Rebellion|1794; western Pennsylvania farmers objected to the 1791 federal "whisky tax", and "excise" tax on "spirits" (alcohol), which was a big part of Hamilton's economic and fiscal program; protesters attacked tax collectors and federal officers sent to enforce the law; Washington ordered federal troops and state militia to put down the rebellion, an assertion of federal powers}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Whiskey Rebellion|1794; western Pennsylvania farmers objected to the 1791 federal "whisky tax", and "excise" tax on "spirits" (alcohol), which was a big part of Hamilton's economic and fiscal program; protesters attacked tax collectors and federal officers sent to enforce the law; Washington ordered federal troops and state militia to put down the rebellion, an assertion of federal powers}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Washington's Farewell Address}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Washington's Farewell Address}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Anglo-British wars|in 1792, the new French Republic attacked Austria and Netherlands, and in 1795 Prussia and Italy; by the Napoleon Bonaparte had taken control of the French Army and began his attempted conquest of all of Europe; the wars united the French, who felt threatened by and who in turn threatened the monarchs of Europe; the British opposed the French expansionism, especially through its superior Navy, and, eventually, on land during the Napoleonic Wars; Americans were politically divided in their sympathies for France or Britain, nominally between Jefferson (for France) v. Adams/Hamilton (for Britain)}}</ul></li> | |||
=== Judiciary/ Judicial terms === | === Judiciary/ Judicial terms === | ||