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Chapter 8 Unit 4
Mr.Parks on 8-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Traditions | Precedents |
| Secretary of state | Jefferson |
| Secretary of treasury | Hamilton |
| Secretary of war | Knox |
| Attorney general | Randolph |
| A group of advisers to the president | Cabinet |
| With this act Congress made a federal court system with 13 didtrict courts and three circuit courts to serve the nation | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| Supreme court chief justice | Jay |
| 10 amendments were added to the Constitution and became known as the | Bill of Rights |
| Amount the government owed | National debt |
| Paper notes promising to repay the money in a certain length of time | Bonds |
| People who risk money inorder to make a larger profit | Speculators |
| A district would be laid out between Virginia and Maryland along the banks of the Potomac River | Washington D.C. |
| Not agreeing or consistent with the Constitution | Unconstitution |
| Tax on imports | Tariff |
| Rebellion where farmers didn't want to pay taxes on whiskey | Whiskey Rebellion |
| U.S. and Native Americans had a battle over territory north of the Ohio River | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| Treaty that Native Americans agreed to surrender most of the land in present day Ohio | Treaty of Greenville |
| Not taking a side | Neutrality |
| France sent a diplomat to the U.S. to recruit American volunteers to attack British ships | Genet |
| Prohibited American citizens from fighting in the war and barred French and British warships from American ports | Proclamation of Neutrality |
| Forcing people into service | Impressment |
| In this treaty British agreed to withdraw from American soil, to pay damages for ships they had seized, and to allow some American ships to trade with British colonies | Jay's Treaty |
| Gave American free navigation of the Mississippi River and the right to trade at New Orleans | Pinckney's Treaty |
| Favoring one side of an issue | Partisan |
| Supported ratification of the Constitution, supported the policies of the Washington administration, stood for strong federal government, and admired Britain | Federalist |
| Wanted limit power of government, supported France,and appealed to smaller armers and urban workers | Republicans |
| Powers not specifically mentioned in the Constitution | Implied Powers |
| A meeting held by a political party to choose their party's canidiate for president or decide policy | Caucus |
| Wanting to avoid war with France Adams sent a delegation to Paris to try to reslove the dispute France also sent someone but he refused to meet with the Americans | Talleyrand |
| Since the person sent to speak with the Americans refused to go he sent 3 agents who wanted a bribe and a loan for France. Adams was mad and he called X, Y, and Z. Prepared for war after this | XYZ Affair |
| Immigrants living in the country who were not citzens | Aliens |
| Activties aimed at weakening established government | Sedition |
| Federalists in Congress respond with strict laws to protect the nation's security | Alien and Sedition Acts |
| Clamied that the Alien and Sediction Acts could not be put into action because they violated the Constitution | The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
| Legally overturn | Nullify |
| Rights and powers indepentdent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution the belief that states' rights supersede federal rights and law | States' rights |
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