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Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the territories gained through the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery set out from St. Louis and explored 8,000 miles along the Missouri and Columbia Rivers and reached the Pacific. The expedition returned in 1806.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
Four Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798. The Naturalization Act increased the waiting period for citizenship. The Alien Act gave the president the power to arrest and deport aliens. The Alien Enemy Act allowed the government to arrest and deport citizens of countries at war with the United States. The Sedition Act stifled opposition to the government and promised to punish those who would “defame [the government and members of the government], or bring either into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against either the hatred of the...
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Louisiana Purchase
In 1800, Spain secretly ceded the Louisiana Territory—the area stretching from Canada to the Gulf Coast and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—to France, which then closed the port of New Orleans to American farmers. Americans in the West, left without a port from which to export their goods, were incensed. President Thomas Jefferson feared that the establishment of a French colonial empire in North America would block American expansion. He sent negotiators to France, with instructions to purchase New Orleans and as much of...
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Macon’s Bill No. 2
Macon’s Bill No. 2 replaced the Non-Intercourse Act and reopened trade with Britain and France, but it provided that if either country agreed to respect American shipping, the US would cut off trade with the other.
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Waltham-Lowell System in effect
Francis Cabot Lowell opened the first factory in the United States able to convert raw cotton into cloth using power machinery.
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Fries’ Rebellion
In 1798, President John Adams signed a bill to levy the first direct federal tax on private property. John Fries of Pennsylvania used the popular discontent over the tax to encourage armed resistance to federal tax assessors and collectors. When government officers came to measure houses to calculate the “window tax,” armed companies of citizens imprisoned them. General William McPherson was put in command of federal troops to enforce the revenue laws, and Fries was arrested and charged with high treason. On May 21, 1800, Adams pardoned...
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Jefferson’s resignation as secretary of state
Concerned over Alexander Hamilton’s ideas about government and Washington’s proclamation of neutrality in the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson resigned from his position as secretary of state.
Glossary Term – Organization
Second Bank of the United States
The second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816, five years after the demise of the first Bank of the United States. The bank and its president, Nicholas Biddle, came under fire from Andrew Jackson and his supporters in the presidential campaign of 1832, antagonism that continued with Jackson’s election and the Bank War. The bank’s charter expired in 1836, and it was re-chartered as the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania.
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Federalist Party
The Federalist Party evolved from the core of Federalists, like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, who wrote and defended the US Constitution in 1787–1788. The new political party advocated a strong central government and supported a liberal construction of the Constitution. John Adams, elected in 1796, served as the only Federalist Party president, and the party held little power after 1801.