https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb en-us 2017-02-19 17:11:48 UTC 2017-02-20 02:11:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154808647 George Washington Established the Cabinet within the Executive Branch by appointing Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton Secretary of Treasury . When Samuel Otis, the Secretary of the Senate, held out a bible before Washington, he placed his right hand upon it. ]]> 2017-02-19 17:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154808647 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809319  The first 2 political parties are the Federalists lead by Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic Republicans lead by Thomas Jefferson.]]> 2017-02-19 17:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809319 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809605 The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.https://youtu.be/sXdBP8Nol8U?list=PLCH8uxPXHDPD5YQPvxX3qlGSFlHNZUhd6]]> 2017-02-19 17:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809605 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809799 The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France,]]> 2017-02-19 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154809799 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154810250  Vice President Thomas Jeffersondefeated President John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System]]> 2017-02-19 17:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154810250 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154810402 marbury vs madison 1803 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. ]]> 2017-02-19 17:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154810402 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154811345 The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies. But under Napoleon Bonaparte, France revived the aspirations to build an empire in North America so the territory was taken back in 1800.. The price was 15 million dollars.https://youtu.be/bYaTSImrDxc?list=PLCH8uxPXHDPD5YQPvxX3qlGSFlHNZUhd6]]> 2017-02-19 17:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154811345 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154811766 After succeeding Benjamin Franklin as American minister at Versailles, witnessing the first chapter of the French Revolution, and conducting foreign affairs as Secretary of State, Jefferson could not escape the immediate effects the French Revolution had on his career. Like most Americans, when the French rebelled against Louis, ]]> 2017-02-19 18:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154811766 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154812549 The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America https://youtu.be/9KYRepV9IQU?list=PLCH8uxPXHDPD5YQPvxX3qlGSFlHNZUhd6]]> 2017-02-19 18:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154812549 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154812758 President Monroe sent General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, to the Florida border in 1818 to stop the incursions. Liberally interpreting his vague instructions, Jackson's troops invaded Florida, captured a Spanish fort at St. Marks, took control of Pensacola, and deposed the Spanish governor.  Adams convinced Spain to sell Florida to the United States and to drop its claims to the Louisiana Territory and Oregon. In return, the United States agreed to relinquish its claims on Texas and assume responsibility for $5 million that the Spanish government owed American citizens]]> 2017-02-19 18:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154812758 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154844479 A plan to strengthen and unify the nation, the American System, also called the "American Way", was advanced by the Whig Party and a number of leading politicians including Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams.]]> 2017-02-20 01:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154844479 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154844576  The bill attempted to equalize the number of slave-holding states and free states in the country, allowing Missouri into the Union as a slave state ]]> 2017-02-20 01:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154844576 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845048 In 1812, James Madison became the first U.S. president to ask Congress to declare war. Find out why he wanted to wage war against Britain and how his constituents felt about it.]]> 2017-02-20 01:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845048 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845543 The main result of the war was two centuries of peace between the United States and Britain. All the causes of the war had disappeared with the end of the war between Britain and France and with the destruction of the power of Indians to block American expansion into the Northwest.]]> 2017-02-20 01:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845543 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845628 A Spoils System is defined as” a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party.” It contrasts with the merit system where individuals earn their job based on qualifications and not political activity.]]> 2017-02-20 01:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845628 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845792 The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. The crisis ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.]]> 2017-02-20 01:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845792 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845968 The Bank War was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, after his reelection convinced him that his opposition to the bank had won national support. The Second Bank had been established in 1816, as a successor to the First Bank of the United States, whose charter had been permitted to expire in 1811.]]> 2017-02-20 01:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154845968 maxxisgr8 https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154846136 The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.]]> 2017-02-20 02:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maxxisgr8/d5jsu8pmv3gb/wish/154846136