Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress 1789-1791
 
   


FIRST FEDERAL CONGRESS EXHIBIT TEACHER'S GUIDE


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Lesson Plans

Vocabulary

Unfamiliar vocabulary can make documents difficult. The following is a list of terms which could be addressed before student reading.

Unit 1

  • enabling legislation
  • expressed versus implied powers
  • revenue raising
  • debt management
  • executive departments
  • judiciary jurisdiction
  • rule of law
  • sectionalism
  • First Continental Congress
  • Confederation Congress
  • Federal Convention
  • First Federal Congress
  • 18th century use of s and f

Unit 2

  • magistrate
  • Articles of Confederation
  • colours
  • quorum
  • Pierre L'Enfant
  • federal decor
  • antifederal junto
  • rank Antifederalist
  • Federalist
  • election advertisement
  • verdure

Unit 3

  • speaker of the house
  • decorum
  • points of order
  • division of the house
  • appoint committees
  • adjourn
  • transgress
  • call to order
  • censure
  • amend
  • the question
  • petitions
  • memorials
  • enactment of bills
  • committee of the whole House
  • impartial

Unit 4

  • Imperial Presidency
  • federal government
  • agenda
  • protocol
  • republican versus monarchical
  • favorite son candidate
  • expediency
  • trappings of monarchy
  • Chief magistrate

Unit 5

  • executive departments
  • implication/ implied powers
  • antifederalists
  • virtual monarch
  • judiciary
  • Constitutional interpretation
  • lunacy
  • impeach
  • legislative constructions
  • implicit and explicit powers
  • enumeration of powers
  • expediency versus expressly given powers
  • praetorium
  • power of a motion
  • tide waiter
  • vociferous
  • Chief Clerk in Department of Foreign Affairs
  • ministers and consuls
  • memorials
  • Home Department
  • quasi-executive and quasi-legislative
  • comptroller
  • Bachanalian

Unit 6

  • federal precedent
  • Judiciary Act 1789
  • Unit 6 continued
  • drafting subcommittee
  • jurisdiction
  • chief justice
  • 5 associate justices
  • quorum = 4
  • district court / district judge
  • scire facias, habeas corpus, writs
  • in chancery
  • disclosure on oath
  • dissection
  • constituents
  • original jurisdiction versus appellate jurisdiction
  • Admiralty Courts / maritime

Unit 7

  • federal versus national government
  • inherent rights
  • enumeration of rights
  • carrying, producing, manufacturing, slave = different economies
  • impost
  • constituents = district versus whole nation

Unit 8

  • Confederation Congress
  • requisition
  • commercial treaty nations
  • protectionist impost
  • memorial
  • smuggling
  • appropriation
  • pension
  • warrants

Unit 9

  • Advice and Consent
  • Councils and Committees
  • consul
  • Barbary state (Algiers)
  • hostage
  • rescind
  • Creek Nations

Unit 10

  • destiny
  • Northwest Ordinance
  • Machiavellian maxim

Unit 11

  • petition
  • statute of limitation
  • tabled
  • copyright
  • reinstate
  • allegations
  • approbation of the public
  • assiduity
  • memorials
  • indemnification
  • commitment (to committee)
  • emporium

Unit 13

  • foreign and domestic debt
  • public credit
  • creditors
  • assumption of debt
  • excise
  • debt certificates
  • public securities
  • violation of contracts
  • absorption of revenue
  • subscriptions

Unit 14

  • agrarian
  • gambling systems of finance
  • concomitant measure
  • anodyne
  • federal district
  • excise
  • federally chartered bank
  • printed circular letter
  • duties
  • excisemen

 

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