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| Question | |
|---|---|
| Pinckney's Treaty | 1795 A agreement between the U.S. and Spain that changed Florida's borders and made it easier for American ships to use the port of the Neworleans. |
| Alien sedition Acts | 1798 laws passed by a federalist dominated congress aimed at protecting the government from treasonous ideas, actions,and people;used against members of the Democratic Republican party. |
| XYZ affair | 1797 Incident in which French agents attempted to get a bribe and loans from U.S. diplomatics in exchange for an agreement that Franch privateers would no longer attack American ships; it led to an undeclared have a war between th two countries. |
| Whiskey Rebellion | 1794 protest by small farmers in Pennsylvania against new taxes on Whiskey and other alcohal. |
| Privateers | Private ships allowed by a country to attack its enemies. |
| Protective tariff | This tax would raise the prices of foreigh products. |
| Speculators | Speculators are people who buy items at liw prices in the hope that the value will rise. |
| bonds | Certificates that represent money owed. |
| Neutrality proclamation | 1793 Statment made by president George Washington that the D.S. would not side with any of the nations at war in Europe following the French Revalutionary. |
| precedent | An action or decision that later serves as an example. |
| Jay's Treaty | 1794 Agreement negotiated by John Jay to work out promblems between Briton and the U.S. over the western frontier trade in the Caribbean, British seizure of U.S. ship,and debts owed to British, merchants. |
| Loose Construction | The Federal government can take any reasonable actions that the constitution does not specifically. |
| National debt | Total amount of money owed by a country to its lenders. |
| Political parties | groups of people who organize to help elect government policies. |
| Twelfth Amendment | 1804 Constitutional amendment that created a seperate ballot for president and vice presient. |
| Bank of the U.S. | National bank chatered by congress in 1791 to provide security for the U.S. economy. |
| Strict constrution | The federal goverment should do only what the constitution specifically says it can do. |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | Legislation passed by congress that created the federal court system. |
| Edmond Genet | France's new representative to the U.S., arrived. |
| John Jay | president Washington and Hamilton sent chief justice John Jay to London to work out a peaceful resolution. |
| U.S. Army | U.S. Troops win the Battle of fallen timbers. |
| Farewell Address | Geoge Wasington Farewell address he wrote about the nations economy, foreigh policy, political parties. |
| Treaty of Greenville | 1795 Agreement between American Indian confederation leaders and the U.S. goverment that gave the U.S. indians land in the southeastern part of the Northeast Terrotory and guaranteed that U.S. citizens could safely travel through the region. |
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