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ch.9 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inaugurate | to swear in or induct into office in a formal ceremony |
| Federal Judiciary Act | it helped create a court system and gave the supreme court members |
| Cabinet | a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers |
| Tariff | is a tax on imported goods |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | in 1794, an American army defeated 2,000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the Northwest territory |
| Treaty of Greenville | in 1795, agreement in which 12 Native American tribes surrendered much of present day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. government |
| Whiskey Rebellion | in 1794, protest against the government's tax on whiskey, which was valuable to the lielihood of back country farmers |
| Neutral | in siding with one country or the other |
| Jay Treaty | the British also agreed to pay damages for U.S. vessels they had seized |
| Pinckney Treaty | 1795, with the Spain gave Americans the right to travel freely on the Mississippi River. It also gave them the right to store goods at the port of New Orleans without paying customs duties |
| Foreign policy | relations with the governments of other countries |
| Political party | is a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government |
| XYZ Affair | a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bride from U.S. diplomats |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | a series of 4 laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the U.S. |
| States rights | theory that said that states had the right to judge when the federal governement had passed an unconstitutional law |
| French Revolution | in 1789, the French launched a meovement for liberty and equality |