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Chapter 9 Vocabulary
US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 6 memebers |
| cabinet | advisers that the President appoints to advise him with many issues and problems |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | 1794 an American army defeated 2,000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the Northwest Territory |
| Treaty of Greenville | 1795 agreement in which 12 Native American tribes surrendered much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US government |
| Whiskey Rebellion | 1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey, which was valuable to the livelihood of back-country farmers |
| French Revolution | 1789 the French launched a movement for liberty and equality |
| nuetral | not siding with one country or another |
| Jay's Treaty | the agreement that ended dispute over American shipping during the French Revolution |
| Pinckney's Treaty | a 1795 treaty with Spain that allowed American's to use the Mississippi River and to store goods in New Orleans; made the 31st parallel the southern US border |
| foreign policy | relations with the governments of other countries |
| political party | a group of people that try to promote its ideas and influence government |
| XYZ Affair | a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US deplomats |
| state's rights | theory that said that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law |
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