Regents Review – Early Presidents

HW: Review Book pages 205-207 #1-17

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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.