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•Pass in 1789
•Created the United States federal court system
•Allowed government officials to take law suits directly to
the Supreme court
•Part of the this law was found un-constitutional by the
Marbury v. Madison court case
Judiciary Act of 1789
•Added to the Constitution to guarantee
the
States would support the new Constitution and the
Federal
Government
•Provided for individual rights as well as the reserve
power for the states
•There are 10 of these amendments
Bill of Rights
•Established a sound financial plan for the young country
•Created a tariff on imports to protect growing U.S. industries
•Stated the Federal government would pay war bonds at full
•Promised to pay for the soldiers war bonuses
•Created a tax on Whisky
•Assumed all the States revolutionary war debts
•Created the 1st National Bank of the United States
Hamilton’s Economic Plan
value
•Started an argument over Congressional power
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
between
•Argument was based on the interpretation of the “Necessary and
Proper Clause”
•Established the concept of Loose and Strict Interpretation of the
Constitution
•Another step towards the establishment of the two
system
1st National Bank
party
•Western Pennsylvanian farmers revolted against Hamilton’s tax
on this spirit
•Washington sent an army out to put down the rebellion, the
show of force cause the rebellion to disintegrate
•Was the first test of the new Federal government under the
Constitution
•Showed that the Federal government had the power
enforce laws
Whiskey Rebellion
to
•Thomas Jefferson was this party’s leader
•Backed policies that supported agrarian interests in the United
States
•Supported a foreign policy favorable to France
•Wanted to see a weak Federal government and strong
governments
•Followed a Strict Interpretation of the Constitution
Democratic-Republican Party
state
•Election of 1800
•Thomas Jefferson becomes president
•The 12th Amendment is added to the U.S. Constitution
•There was a peaceful transition of power, Federalists out---Democratic Republicans in
Revolution of 1800
•The invisible hand
•The government should not involve itself in the
•The economy operates best without interference
•The basis for true capitalism
Laissez-faire Economics
economy
•Alexander Hamilton was this party’s leader
•Backed policies that supported business and
industrial
interests in the United States
•Supported a foreign policy favorable to England
•Wanted to see a strong Federal government
and weak
state governments
•Followed a Loose Interpretation of the
Constitution
Federalist Party
•First court case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
•John Marshall was the Chief Justice
•Midnight Judges
•Found part of the Judiciary Act of 1789
unconstitutional
•Established the principal of Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison, (1803)
•2nd Chief of the U.S. Supreme Court
•During his tenure as Chief Justice his rulings tended to
strengthen the federal government at the expense of the
state governments
•Was instrumental in establishing the power of
the
Supreme Court and making sure it held
equal power
again the other two branches of government
John Marshall
•Land purchase from France during the Jefferson administration
•Doubled the size of the United States
•Gave the United States complete control of the
River
Mississippi
•Forced Thomas Jefferson to take a Loose Constructionist point
of view of the U.S. Constitution
Louisiana Purchase
•Originally passed to limit foreign influences on the United States
•Increased the number of years you had to live in the country to become
from 4 to 7
a citizen
•Gave the president the power to kick foreigners out of the country
•Made it illegal criticize the United States government or government
•Was used by the Federalists to silence the Democratic-Republicans
•Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote the Kentucky and
resolutions to challenge the Acts (Nullification)
Alien & Sedition Acts
Virginia
official
•Written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in
the Alien Sedition Acts
response
to
•Proposed that since the states ratified the U.S. Constitution,
reserved the right to interpret the Constitution
the states
•Stated that the states could declare a federal law null and void
thought it was unconstitutional
if they
•Laid the ground work for future challenges of federal power by
the states
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
•Convention in the New England states that protested the War of 1812
•Proposed that the U.S. Constitution be amended so that a declaration of
required approval of ALL states
war
•Suggested that if the War of 1812 did not end, the New England states
consider leaving (Seceding) from the Union
would
•War ended before the Conventions demand could be presented in Washington D.C.
•Made the Federalist appear unpatriotic and helped to hasten the collapse
Federalist parry
Hartford Convention (1814)
of the
•First proposed by the Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions
•States could declare a law unconstitutional
•Laid the ground work for future conflicts between the Federal
government and the state governments over
power
•Was the foundation for the claim that the southern states had a
RIGHT to leave the Union in 1860 (Civil War 1861-1864)
Nullification
•Beware of party strife (politics)
•Do not involve yourself in European affairs or you will
into European Wars (entangling alliances)
be pulled
•Beware of sectional differences
•The FIRST president’s advice to the country before her retired from
politics and returned to private life
Washington’s Farewell
Address
•Used to protect a country’s industries from foreign
competition
•Tended to make prices for consumers goods higher
•It is a tax on goods imported into a country
Tariff
•“We are all democrats, we are all republicans”
•An attempt by Jefferson to bridge the differences between
the Federalists and the Democratic- republicans after his
election in 1800
Thomas Jefferson’s 1st inaugural
address