| Term | Definition |
|---|
| electoral college | Group selected from each states to cast votes in president elections. The number of each states electors if equal to the number of its representatives and senators in Congress. The electors are expected to vote for the canidate chosen by popular cote in their states |
| precedent | an action or decision that later serves as an example |
| George Washington | 1st president and reolutionary war hero. Great leader and won anonomosly |
| Martha Washington | George Washingtons mom who had to entertain guests and attend social events. Ran president household |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | legislation passed by congress that created the federal court system |
| National debt | total amount of maney owed by a country to its lenders |
| bonds | Certificates that represent maney the government has borrowed from private citizens |
| speculaters | investorswho buy items at low prices in hopes that their calue will rise |
| protective tariffs | a tax on imported goods that raises the price of imports so people willbuy domestic goods |
| loose construction | way of interpreting the the constitution that allows the federal government to take actione that the constitution does not specifically forbid it from taking |
| strict construction | way of interpreting the constitution that allows the federal government to take onlu those actions the constitution specifically says it can take |
| Alexander Hamilton | 1st secretary of treasury, his 1st challenge was paying off national debt believed in sociaty based on industry and believed in loose constriction of the Constitution |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1st secretary of state, opposite of Hamilton believed in an agrarian society and believed in strick construction of the government |
| Bank of the United States | established in February 1791 helped offer stability and played an important role in improving the US economy |
| privateers | Private ships authorized by a nation to attack its enemies |
| right of deposit | right to transfer goods at a destination without having to pay fees for cargo |
| French revolution | French rebellion begun in 1789 in which french people overthrew the monarchy and made their country a republic |
| neutrality proclamation | statement made by president George Washinton that the US wouldnot side with any nation at was in Europe following the French Revolution |
| Edmond Genet | France's representative in the US who traveled along the country looking for people to support France in there revolution. He found 4 privateers and was sent home because Washington didn't want him to ruin the American neutrality. |
| John Jay | the 1st chief justice of the supreme court who was sent to Britian to make a comprimise over British siezing american ships trading in the French west indies |
| Jays treaty | Signed november 1794 stated the the british would stop attacking small american ships (not big) and would pay for damages of siezed ships and british would abandon there ships in the frontier. Said americans had to pay off Pre revolutionary war debts as well |
| thomas pinckney | a us ambassador who went to spain to discuss spain closing off the New Orleans port to US |
| Pinckneys Treaty | signed October 1795 changed floridas borders and also reopened New Orleans port to American merchants |
| Little Turtle | Lead American Indian Confederation in war against Americans also Chief of the Miami Tribe |
| Anthony Wayne | A general sent by Washinton to take charge of the army and fight against the American Indian Confederation |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | Battle between the US and the American Indian Confederation resisting whit settlement in Northwest territory; led to Treaty of Greenville US Wins!!! |
| Treaty of Greenville | agrement between american indian confederation leaders and the US in the southeastern part of the Northwest territory and guranteed that citizens would have safe travel through the region |
| Whiskey rebellion | protests by small farmers in Pennsylvania against new taxes on whiskey and other alcohol |
| political parties | Groups of people who organize to help elect government officials and influence government policies |
| Federalist parties | political party created in the 1790's that wanted to strengthen the federal government and promote industry and trade |
| Democratic-republican parties | political party founded in the 1790s that sought to preserve the power of the state governments and promote agriculture |
| XYZ affairs | incident in which french agents attempted to get a bribe and loans from US diplomatsin exchange for an agreement that French privateers would no longer attack American ships; it led to an undeclared naval war between the 2 countries |
| Alien and Sedition acts | Laws passed by a federalist-dominated Congress aimed at protecting the government from treasonous ideas, actions, and prople; used against members of the Democratic- Republican Party |
| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | republican documents that argued the alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional |
| Twelfth amendment | Constitutional amendment that created a separatebellot for the president and vice president |
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