regents review – early presidents hw: review book pages 205- 207 #1-17 practice regents thursday
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Regents Review – Early Presidents
HW: Review Book pages 205-207 #1-17
Practice Regents Thursday
Review Packet
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Washington
OPrecedents set: cabinet, two terms in office
OFarewell Address: neutrality, stay out of foreign affairs (no foreign entanglements)
Adams
OAlien Acts – more difficult to become a citizen and easier to arrest and deport non-citizens who were a danger to national security.
OSedition – easier to arrest someone for criticizing the government.
JeffersonO Political parties – developed through custom
and tradition (unwritten constitution).O Federalists (Hamilton) and Democratic-
Republicans (Jefferson)O Louisiana Purchase – doubled the size of the
US. Required loose interpretation of the Constitution (elastic clause). Acquire the Mississippi River.
MadisonO War of 1812 – Causes – impressment, War
Hawks wanted to acquire Canada and British giving arms to the Indians and encouraging them to attack settlers on the frontier.
O Treaty of Paris – gained nothingO National Anthem, White House, Future
President (Jackson)
Monroe O “Era of Good Feelings” – New spirit
of pride and national unity after the War of 1812.
O Monroe Doctrine – written by John Quincy Adams. No further colonization of the Western Hemisphere. Any attempt to do so would be an act of war. US will stay out of European affairs.
O John Marshall – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Strengthened the power of the Federal government (McCulloch v. Maryland)
John Quincy Adams
OSecretary of State – Wrote the Monroe Doctrine, negotiated the purchase of Florida. Better Secretary of State than President.
OFlorida – Adams-Onis Agreement – purchased from Spain.
JacksonO Spoils system – nepotism, gave jobs
to his friends.O Pet banks – state banks owned by
his friends that Jackson deposited money into. He broke the National Bank.
O Trail of Tears – move Cherokees west of the Mississippi. Cherokees sue in court and win. Jackson moves them anyway. ¼ die along the way.