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AP US History Chapter 10 Identification/Matching

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Electoral College
The official body designated to choose the President under the new Constitution, which in 1789 unanimously elected George Washington
Vice President
The constitutional office into which John Adams was sworn on April 30, 1789
Secretary of Treasury
The cabin office in Washington;s administration heaves by a brilliant young West Indian immigrant who distrusted the people
Funding at Par
Alexander Hamilton's policy of paying off all federal bonds at face value in order to strengthen the national credit
Assumption
Hamilton's policy of having the federal government pay the financial obligations of the states
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
Political Parties
Political organizations not envisioned in the Constitution and considered dangerous to national unity by most of the Founding Fathers
French Revolution
Political and social upheaval supported by most Americans during its moderate beginnings the 1789, but the cause of bitter divisions after it took a radical turn in 1792
French-American Alliance
Agreement signed between two anti-British countries in 1779 that increasingly plagued American foreign policy in the 1790's
Miami Confederacy
Alliance of eight Indian nations led by Little Turtle that inflicted major defeats on American forces in the early 1790s
Jay's Treaty
Document signed in 1794 whose terms favoring Britain outraged Jeffersonian Republicans
France
The nation with which the United States fought undeclared war from 1798 to 1800
Compact Theory
The political theory on which Jefferson and Madison based their antifederalist resolutions declaring that the thirteen sovereign states had created the Constitution
Nullification
The doctrine, proclaimed in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, that a state can block a federal law it considers unconstitutional
Great Britain
The nation to which most Hamiltonian Federalists were sentimentally attached and which they favored in foreign policy
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