| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Cabinet | a group of advisers to the president. |
| Bill of Rights | 10 constitution amendments that went into affect in 1791. |
| Tariff of 1789 | required importers to pay a percentage of the value of their cargo when they landed it in the United States. |
| Whiskey Rebellion | The new tax on whiskey enraged western farmers because whiskey was used as a medium of exchange and the easiest way to move their grain to Eastern markets. The rebellion errupted in 1794 when farmers terrorized tax collectors, stopped court proceedings, robbed the mail, and destroyed the whiskey making mills of those who paid the taxes. |
| Pickney's Treaty | granted the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi and to deposit goods at the port of New Orleans. |
| Treaty of Greenville | Native Americans agreed to give up present day southern Ohio and Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment of $10,000 from the government. |
| XYZ affair | John Adams referred to the French agents as X, Y, Z. |
| Quasi-War | In 1789 Congress suspended trade with France and directed the navy to capture armed French ships. |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | first three laws were directed at aliens--people living in the country that were not citizens; first law required the immagrants to wait 14 years before becoming citizens; 2nd two gave the president the power to deport without trial any alien deemed dangerous; fourth law prevented sedition. |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Republican controlled legislatures of VA and KY passed resolutions written by Jefferson and Madison critizing the alien and sedition acts. |
| Midnight Judges | the Judiciary act of 1801 created 16 new federal judges that were supposedly signed appointments until midnight. |
| Louisiana Purchase | On April 30, 1803 the United States brought Louisiana from France for $11.25 million. |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition | found a path through the Rocky Mountains and eventually traced the Columbian River to the pacific ocean; increased the American knowledge of the Louisiana territory. |
| Essex Junto | small group of Federalist drafted a plan to take New England out of the Union. |
| Embargo Act | halted all trade between the United States and Europe. |
| Non-intercourse Act | forbade trade with France and Britain while authorizing the President to reopen trade with whichever country removed its 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 the US would stop transporting goods from the other nation. |
| Hartford Convention | called for several constitutional amendments to increase the region's political power. |
| Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson used cotton bales that protected them from the 7500 British men who landed near New Orleans. |
| Treaty of Ghent | ended the War of 1812 and ensured pre-war boundries but did not mention neutral rights on impressment and no territory changed hands. |
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