| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cabinet | a group of advisers to the president |
| Bill of Rights | one of the most important acts of the Congress. and during the ratifiction of the Constitution the Federalits promised this to convince some states to agree. they were 10 amendments at the time (now more) and they were referred to as _____________ |
| Tariff of 1789 | required importers to pay a % of the value of their cargo when they landed it in the U.S. Shippers also had to pay tonnage (a tax based on how much their ships carried) |
| Whiskey Rebellion | the new tax on whiskey (which was used as a medium of exchange) and it enraged the Western farmers. Farmers terrrorized tax collectors, stopped court proceding, robbed the mail and destroyed the whiskey making stills of those who paid the tax |
| Pickney's Treaty | granted the U.S. the right to navigate the Mississippi and to deposit goods at the port of New Orleans and it won broad acceptance |
| Treaty of Greenville | native americans signed this and agreed to give up part of what is today southern Ohio and Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment of $10,000 from the federal government |
| Quasi-War | an undeclared war at sea between the Americans and the French |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | four laws that the Federalists pushed through the Congress: first three were aimed at the aliens (people living in the country who were not citizens) the first law required immigrants to wait 14 years before coming a citizen, thus weakening Republican support. the next two laws gave the president the power to deport without trial and alien deemed dangerous to the US. the fourth law was aimed at preventing sedition or incitement to rebellion and this law made it a federal crime to utter or print anything "false, scandalous, and malicious" against the federal gov't |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | passed resolution secretly written by Jefferson and Madison, critizing the Alien and Sedition Acts. both resolutions argued that since the states had created the Constitution, they should declare federal law unconstitutional. the VA resolutions introduced the theory of interposition and argued that the federal gov't did something unconstitutional, the state could stop illegal action. The KY resolutions advanced nullificatoon and if the federal gov't passed an unconstitutional law the states had the right to nullify the law or declare it invalid |
| Midnight Judges | the judges that signed appointments at mignight on Adams last day of office |
| Louisiana Purchase | when the US bought LA from France for 11.25 million and it agreed to take on French debts owed to American citizens |
| Lewis and Clark Expeditions | Jefferson asked Congress to fund a secret expedition to trace the Missouri River and to find a route to the Pacific. After the Congress aprroved Jefferson asked William & Meriwether to lead it. this expedtion was called the "the Corps of Discovrey" |
| Essex Junto | a small group of Federalists who drafted a plan to take new England out of the Union |
| Embargo Act | Jefferson asked the Congress to pass this in 1807 which halted all trade between the United States and Europe. |
| Non-intercourse Act | forbade trade with the france and Britain while authorizing the president to reopen trade with whichever country removed its trade restrictions first |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 | reopened trade with both Britain and France but it stated that if either nation agreed to drop its restrictions on trade that the US would stop importing goods from the other nation |
| Hartford Convention | The British offencive increased New England's opposition to the war and in December the Federalists met in Hartford to discuss what they would do independently of the US and it called for several constituitional amendmants to increase the region's political power |
| The Battle of New Orleans | 7500 of British men landed in New Orleans and General Andrew Jackson improvised a defence using large cotton bales from nearby field and the American won. and this made General Jackson a national hero and helped destroy the Federalist party |
| Treaty of Ghent | ended the War of 1812. it restored the prewar boundaries but did little else. it didnt metion neutral rights or impressment and not territory changed hands |
| XYZ Affair | when president John Adams informed the Congress of the incident (The French asked for 25000 just to initiate talks and also sought an American loan of 12 million $s) he referred to the French agents as these letters and inspiriing the newspapers to refer to the incident as ________ |
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