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Ch.7 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act that established federal district courts in each state and three circuit courts to hear appeals from districts, with the Supreme Court serving as the highest appellate court in the federal system. | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| The first ten amendments to the constitution, officially ratified by 1791. The amendments safeguarded fundamental legal procedures such as trail by jury. | Bill of Rights |
| Alexander Hamilton's 1790 report recommending that the federal government should assume all state debts and fund the national debt- that is, offer interest on it rather than repaying it- at full value. Hamilton's goal was to make the new country debt-free | Report on the Public credit |
| A bank chartered in 1790 and jointly owned by a private stockholders and the national government. | Bank of the United States |
| A proposal by treasury secretary Alex Hamil in 1791 calling for federal government to urge expansion of American manufacturing while imposing taxes on foreign imports | Report on Manufactures |
| A proclamation issued by President George Wash in 1793, allowing US citizens to trade with all belligerents in the war between France and Great Britain | Proclamation of Neutrality |
| A revolution in France (1789-1799) that was initially welcomed by most americans because it began abolishing feudalism and est. a constitutional monarchy, but eventually came to be to radical | French Revolution |
| A 1794 uprising by farmers in western Penn in response to enforcement of an unpopular excise tax on whiskey | Whiskey Rebellion |
| A 1795 treaty between the US and Brit. negotiated by John Jay. Accepted Brit. right to stop neutral ships and required US to provide money for pre- war debts to Brit Merchants | Jay's Treaty |
| An uprising against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue (1791–1804) involving liberated slaves from the island and armies from three European countries. Became the independent black republic of Haiti, in which former slaves were citizens. | Haitian Revolution |
| A 1797 incident in which American negotiators in France were rebuffed for refusing to pay a substantial bribe. The incident led the United States into an undeclared war that curtailed American trade with the French West Indies. | XYZ affair |
| passed in 1798 that limited rights and threatened the fledgling party system. lengthened the resident requirement for citizenship, author. the deportation of foreigners, prohibited the publication of insults or malicious attacks on the president or Con. | Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts |
| Resolutions by the Virginia and Kentucky state legislatures in 1798 condemning the Alien and Sedition Acts. The resolutions tested the idea that state legislatures could judge the legitimacy of federal laws. | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
| A 1795 treaty between the United States and various Indian tribes in Ohio. American negotiators acknowledged Indian ownership of the land, and, in return for various payments, the Western Confederacy ceded most of Ohio to the United States. | Treaty of Greenville |
| case that established the principle of judicial review in finding that parts of the Judiciary Act of 1789 were in conflict with the Constitution. | Marbury v. Madison (1803), |
| The 1803 purchase of French territory west of the Mississippi River that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and nearly doubled the size of the United States. | Louisiana Purchase |
| An act of Congress that prohibited U.S. ships from traveling to foreign ports in an attempt to deter Britain and France from halting U.S. ships at sea. The embargo caused grave hardships for Americans engaged in overseas commerce. | Embargo Act of 1807 |
| An attack on Shawnee Indians and their allies at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in 1811 by American forces headed by William Henry Harrison, Indiana’s territorial governor. | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| The treaty signed on Christmas Eve 1814 that ended the War of 1812. It retained the prewar borders of the United States. | Treaty of Ghent |
| A Supreme Court case that denied the right of states to tax the Second Bank of the United States, thereby asserting the dominance of national over state statutes. | McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) |
| An 1819 treaty in which John Quincy Adams persuaded Spain to cede the Florida territory to the United States. In return, the American government accepted Spain’s claim to Texas and agreed to a compromise western boundary for the state of Louisiana. | Adams-Onís Treaty |
| The 1823 declaration by President James Monroe that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any further colonization or interference by European powers. In exchange, Monroe pledged that the United States would not become involved in European struggles. | Monroe Doctrine |
| One of the lead federalists | John Adams |
| Chief of Miami Indians, resisted American imposition on Indian land, brother is Chief Pottawamma, part of great council of the 16 fires | Little Turtle |
| Federalist Judge and Jefferson's cousin, supreme court justice for 34 years and chief Justice, established Judicial Review | John Marshall |
| Battle of Tippecanoe, fought against Americans for land | Tecumseh |
| GREAT COMPRIMISER | Henry Clay |
| Moving west because of less land in west | Yeoman Farmers |
| Big Federalist, got killed by Aaron Burr | Alexander Hamilton |
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