Unit 7: Federalist Era Review

Which of the following was discussed in Washington's farewell address?

• Abolishing slavery

• Recognizing states' rights

• Avoiding foreign alliances

• Encouraging the formation of political parties

Prohibited Americans from fighting in a war with Britain or France

• Jay's Treaty

• Proclamation of Neutrality

• Washington's Doctrine

• Doctrine of Peace

Treaty with Spain in which Spain granted the Americans free navigation of the Mississippi River and the large disputed territory north of Florida.

• Jay's Treaty

• Pinckney's Treaty

• Treaty of Ghent

• Kentucky Resolution

Favored a strong federal government that was supported by implied powers of the Constitution

• Federalists

• Democratic-Republicans

Stated that the Alien & Sedition Acts violated the Constitution

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

• Connecticut and New Hampshire Resolutions

• North and South Carolina Resolutions

• New York and New Jersey Resolutions

Established a federal court system

• Judiciary Act of 1789

• Judicial Review

• Marbury v. Madison

• Department of Internal Affairs

Jefferson & Madison believed in...

• strict reading of the Constitution

• loose reading of the Constitution

• implied powers for the government

• congress could make laws that were "necessary and proper" to carry out its powers

Had bold plans for the federal government assuming states' wartime debts, paying off bonds at full value, creating a national bank, and implementing tariffs.

• Hamilton

• Franklin

• Madison

• Washington

Encouraged a growing hatred of the French

• XYZ Affair

• Proclamation of Neutrality

• impressment of American soldiers

• Alien & Sedition Acts

This led to the formation of the first two political parties in the U.S.

• conflict over the distribution of power between the federal and state governments

• conflict over the control of trade

• conflict over the spread of slavery into new territories

• conflict over the newly added lands from France and Spain