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Date Posted: 09:18:45 05/20/01 Sun
Author: lynette
Subject: some of my sections (without ones i don't know)

WI=West Indies, NA=Native Americans, Yankees DO NOT EQUAL baseball team

XYZ Affair -1797- 3 american delegates sent to france, approached by 3 French asking for $32 million loan and $250,000 bribe to talk with Talleyrand.
Undeclared War With France - 1798 to 1800 - sea confined around WI, US captured over 80 armed French vessels, several hundred Yankees died.
Alien & Sedition Acts - 1798 laws set to reduce Jeffersonians, raised residence requirements fronm 5 to 14 years, stopped opendoor hospitality & speedy assimilation, gave PRES right to deport dangerous foreigners in peacetiem & deport or imprison during wartime, never enforced, contrary to Constitution spirit & to American tradition.
VA & KY Resolutions - written by Monroe & Jefferson, adopted in 1798, states created federal gov't so they could judge whether contract was broken or exceeded Constitutional powers in which case nullification was necessary.
Convention of 1800 - treaty b/w French & Americans, French divorced marriage of convenience, America paid for damage claims of US shippers.
Interchangeable Parts - invented by Eli Whitney, first used for rifle about 1798, widely adopted by 1850, basis of modern-mass production.
John Marshall - Chief Justice of Supreme Court, VA Federalist, magnified authority of court in decision of 1801, promoted "judicial review" where Supreme Court had last word on question of Constitutionality.
Midnight Judges - created by Adams's Judiciary Act of 1801, Federalist judges, most replaced.
Robert Owen - established communal society in IL in 1825, Scottish manufacturer, attracted visionaries & radicals & theorists & scoundrels
New Harmony - society created by Robert Owen, peaceful colony.
American System - Henry Clay's plan of 1824 - - - a)protective tariff, b)money funded roads & canals, c)food and raw materials to East & North, 4)manufactured goods to South & West
Tariff of Abominations - pushed duties high as 45& on certain items, new tax on raw materials, hated by Southerners & NE'ers, passed by NE to defend protective measures.

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[> Re: some of my sections (without ones i don't know) -- bob, 17:05:01 03/06/02 Wed

how does the interchangeables parts work?
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