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New Republic history
New US. Republic history vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inaugurate | to swear in or induct into office in a formal ceremony |
| Federal Judiciary Act | it helped created a court system and gave the Supreme Court six members |
| cabinet | a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisors |
| tarrif | a tax placed on imported goods |
| national bank | a bank owned and administered by the government that is formally authorized to issue notes that serve as money |
| strict construction | interpretation of the constitutions as how people thought the founding fathers wanted our nantion to run |
| loose construction | interpretation of the constitution that it was meant to change with tecnology and time |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | an American army defeated 2,000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the northwest Territory |
| Treaty of Greenville | a 1795 agreement in which 12 Native American tribes surrendered much of present day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. government |
| Whiskey Rebellion | a 1794 protest against the government's tax on Whiskey , which was valuable to the livehood of backcountry farmers |
| French Revolution | in 1789 the French launched a movement for liberty and equality |
| neutral | not siding with one country or the other |
| Jay's Treaty | the agreement that ended the dispute over American shipping during the French Revolution |
| Pinckney's Treaty | a 1795 treaty with Spain that allowed Americans to use the Mississippi River and to store goods in New Orleans; made the 31st parallel the southern U.S. border |
| precedent | an act, desion, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequient desions |
| foreign policy | relations with the government of other countries |
| political party | a group of people sharing similar ideas about how the country should run |
| XYZ affair | a 1797 affair incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomat |
| Alien & Sedition Act | a series of four laws enacted in 1789 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States |
| state's rights | theory that said that states had the fight to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law |
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