| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cabinet | a group of advisors to the president |
| Bill of Rights | written by James Madison; contained 10 constitutional amendments that protected the rights of the American people |
| Tariff of 1789 | required importers to pay a percentage of the value of their cargo when they landed in the United States and shippers had to pay a tax based on how much their ships carried |
| Whiskey Rebellion | [1791] tax on the manufacture of whiskey makes Western farmers angry and they terrorized tax collectors, stopped cort proceedings, robbed the mail, and destroyed the whiskey making stills of those tho paid taxes |
| PIckney's Treaty | [1795] granted the United States the right to navigate the Mississippi and to deposit goods at the ports of New Orleans |
| Treaty of Greenville | [1795] treaty between Native Americans and America; natives agreed to give up part of southern Ohio and Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment of $10,000 from the federal gov't |
| XYZ Affair | bribes from France in order to consider talking to America about the seizing ships issue |
| Quasi-War | after trying to negotiate with France, [1798] Congress suspended trade with France and directed the navy to capture armed French ships |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | [1798] alien acts- people living in America without citizenship had to live in America for 14 consecutive years to become citizens; sedition- made it a federal crime to utter or print anything 'false', scandalous, and malicious against the federal gov't or anyone in office. |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | [1798-1799] Republican controlled legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky passed resolutions criticizing the Alien and Sedition Acts, arguing that since states created the Constitution they could declare federal laws unconstitutional |
| Midnight Judges | created by the Judiciary Act of 1801; 16 federalist judges appointed by President Adams himself before his last day in office |
| Louisiana Purchase | [1803] Napoleon sold Louisiana because of going to war with Great Britain for $11.25 million to the United States |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition | the expedition to trace the Missouri River and find a route to the Pacific Ocean; Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; |
| Essex Junto | small group of Massachusetts Federalist that drafted a plan to take New England out of the union; helped by Vice President Burr, and Hamilton thought he was a dangerous man, so Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel but Hamilton refused to fire, and was killed |
| Embargo Act | America's attempt to stop trade with other countries, leading to economic stuggles |
| Non-intercourse Act | to stop Britain from seizing American ships; forbade trade with France and Britain while authoritizing 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 dro its restricitions on trade, the US would stop importing goods from the other nation |
| Hartford Convention | Federalists met in Hartford, Connecticut to discuss what they could do independently of the United States to stop the war |
| Battle of New Orleans | [1815] 7,500 British men and Andrew Jackson; Americans won, ended the Federalist party |
| Treaty of Ghent | [1814] ended the war of 1812 |
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