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Chapter 6 A STRONG START FOR THE NATION

Chapter 6 A STRONG START FOR THE NATION. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World Section 3: The Nation Expands Section 4: The War of 1812. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established. Objectives:.

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Chapter 6 A STRONG START FOR THE NATION

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  1. Chapter 6A STRONG START FOR THE NATION Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World Section 3: The Nation Expands Section 4: The War of 1812

  2. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Objectives: • What key decisions did the first Congress make, and how did they affect the nation? • What were the arguments for and against Hamilton’s debt proposal? • Why did some Americans oppose a national bank? • What conflicts occurred on the frontier in the 1790s?

  3. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Key decisions • passed the Bill of Rights • set up the federal court system with the Judiciary Act • created State, War, and Treasury Departments

  4. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Hamilton’s debt proposal • Arguments for • strengthen the economy • restore the government’s credit • Arguments against • speculators would make a fortune • Patriot soldiers and early investors in the U.S. government would get nothing

  5. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Opposition to a national bank • southern planters feared control by northeastern merchants • strict constructionists believed it was illegal • some were suspicious of all banks

  6. Section 1: A Federal Government is Established Conflicts of the 1790s • the Whiskey Rebellion • the Battle of Fallen Timbers and other conflicts with American Indians in the Northwest Territory

  7. Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World Objectives: • How did Americans respond to political events in France? • How did political parties affect the election of 1796? • How did conflicts with France increase tensions between Republicans and Federalists?

  8. Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World American response to the French Revolution • some were pleased at the French following the American example • many shocked at violence and beheadings

  9. Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World Political parties in 1796 • made the election very contentious • Hamilton’s cheating resulted in the president and vice-president being from different parties

  10. Section 2: Dealing with a Dangerous World Conflicts with France • threats of war allowed passage of Alien and Sedition Acts • Federalists used Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest and punish Republicans • challenging the Acts meant challenging the federal government for Virginia and Kentucky

  11. Section 3: The Nation Expands Objectives: • How did judicial decisions affect the balance of power among the three branches of government? • Why did Thomas Jefferson want to purchase Louisiana, and why did Napoleon want to give it up? • What was the national and international significance of the Louisiana Purchase?

  12. Section 3: The Nation Expands Judicial decisions increased the power of the Supreme Court: • Marbury v. Madison established the court as final interpreter of the Constitution • position of loose constructionists expressed regarding the national bank

  13. Section 3: The Nation Expands Jefferson wanted to buy Louisiana: • to expand U.S. land • to appeal to Republican farmers

  14. Section 3: The Nation Expands Napoleon wanted to sell Louisiana: • to leave behind the slave revolts and disease of the Western Hemisphere • to get money to expand his war chest

  15. Section 3: The Nation Expands Significance of the Louisiana Purchase • added all or part of 13 states • opened the interior of the continent to settlement • helped transform the U.S. into a world nation • removed the French threat

  16. Section 4: The War of 1812 Objectives: • How did Tecumseh hope to hold American Indian lands? • Why did the United States declare war on Great Britain in 1812? • How did the War of 1812 affect the United States and Great Britain?

  17. Section 4: The War of 1812 Tecumseh hopes to protect American Indian lands: • by forming a military alliance • by recruiting British support • by urging American Indians not to sell their lands

  18. Section 4: The War of 1812 U.S. declares war on Great Britain in 1812 due to: • British impressments of U.S. sailors • British support of American Indian uprisings • general violations of neutrality • Republican fear that not resolving the crisis would return the Federalists to power

  19. Section 4: The War of 1812 Effects of War of 1812 • conquered territory restored • stronger U.S. control over Northwest Territory • peace alliance between U.S. and Great Britain • destruction of the Federalist Party

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