MAJOR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS FACED BY THE LEADERS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC CLASS NOTES AND DISCUSSION RED= PROBLEM YELLOW= SOLUTION

NATIONAL SECURITY WHISKEY REBELLION- FARMERS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA STAGED A REBELLION AGAINST A GOVERNMENT TAX ON WHISKEY AND THE GRAIN IT WAS MADE WITH (IT DECREASED THE PROFITS ON THE GRAIN). WASHINGTON SENT OUT FEDERAL TROOPS TO PUT DOWN THE UPRISING AND THE REBELS FLED AWAY.

NATIONAL SECURITY XYZ AFFAIR- THE FRENCH WERE SEIZING AMERICAN SHIPS TO PREVENT AMERICANS FROM TRADING WITH THE BRITISH. THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WERE AT WAR. X,Y,Z REFERRED TO THE FRENCH AGENTS THAT ASSSURED THAT AMERICAN NEGOTIATORS COULD MEET WITH THE FRENCH PRIME MINISTER. THEY WANTED AMERICA TO PAY THE FRENCH $10 MILLION AND AND ANOTHER $150,000 TO THE MINISTER BUT AMERICA REFUSED TO BE BRIBED. AMERICA ALLOWED THE FRENCH TO SEIZE SHIPS BUT BEGAN TO SET ASIDE MONEY TO STRENGTHEN THE U.S. MILITARY

CREATING A STABLE ECONOMIC SYSTEM THE UNITED STATES HAD SUBSTANTIAL DEBT FROM FIGHTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND NEEDED TO CREATE A LEGITIMATE CURRENCY TO FOSTER (HELP) TRADE RELATIONS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S SOLUTION WAS TO CREATE A NATIONAL BANK AND IT WAS EVENTUALLY IMPLEMENTED.

SETTING UP THE COURT SYSTEM FEDERAL JUDICIARY ACT OF 1789- A LAW THAT DESIGNED THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURT SYSTEM. MARBURY VS. MADISON (1803)- SET UP THE PRECEDENT OF JUDICIAL REVIEW AND GAVE THE SUPREME COURT THE POWER TO DECLARE LAWS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

DEFINING THE AUTHORITY OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTING A PRESIDENTIAL CABINET- THE CONSTITUTION DID NOT MENTION IT, AND WASHINGTON’S CABINET SET PRECIDENTS FOR FUTURE PRESIDENTS. ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS- LAWS TARGETED IMMIGRANTS (ALIENS). THEY HAD TO WAIT LONGER TO BECOME CITIZENS AND WERE KICKED OUT IF THEY SAID OR WROTE ANYTHING NEGATIVE/HARMFUL ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT (SEDITION). STATES RIGHTS- A THEORY THAT SAID THAT STATES COULD FIGHT FEDERAL LAWS (NULLIFY) THEY DID NOT LIKE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COULD NOT VIOLATE STATE’S RIGHTS. JEFFERSON’S LOUISIANA PURCHASE- IN 1803JEFFERSON PAID FRANCE $15 MILLION FOR THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY BUT THERE IS NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT GIVES THE PRESIDENT THAT KIND OF POWER.