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Ch 9 vocab ss
Ch 9 vocab
Question | Answer |
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"sworn in" | inaugurate |
It gave supreme Court six members:a chief justice, or judge, and fice associate justices. | Federal Judiciary Act |
a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers | cabinet |
tax on imported goods | tariff |
In 1794, an American army defeated 2000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the Northwest Territory. | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
12 tribes signed it in 1795...They agreed to cede much of present day Ohio and Indiana to U.S. gov. | Treaty of Greenville |
1794 protest against gov. taxes on whiskey, which was valuable to the livelihood of backcountry farmers. | Whiskey Rebellion |
In 1789, a financial crisis led the French people to rebel against their government. The french demanded liberty and equality. | French Revolution |
not siding with one country or the other | neutral |
Treaty where British agreed to pay damages for U.S. vessels they had seized | Jay's Treaty |
Treaty where Americans had the right to travel freely on the Mississippi R. It also gave them the right to store goods at port of New Orleans without paying custom duties. | Pinckney's Treaty |
relations with the governments of other countries | foreign policy |
a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government | political party |
1797 incident where french officials demanded a bribe from american diplomats. | XYZ Affair |
acts that targeted aliens-immigrants who were not yet citizens | Alien and Sedition Acts |
"states had rights that the federal government could not violate" | state' rights |