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Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To swear (someone) into office | Inaugurate |
| It helped set up a court system, giving the Supreme Court six members (a chief justice/judge and five associate justices). | Federal Judiciary Act |
| A group of department heads who assist the president with issues and problems he faces. | Cabinet |
| A tax on imported goods, serving to raise money for the government and encourage the growth of the country's industry. | Tariff |
| Native Americans were defeated on August 20, 1794 by an American army led by General Anthony Wayne over control of Northwest Territory. | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| A treaty signed in 1795 by twelve Native American tribes ceding much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. government. | Treaty of Greenville |
| Organized by a group of west Pennsylvania farmers in 1794, it protested the government's tax on whiskey. | Whiskey Rebellion |
| A financial crisis in 1789 led French people to rebel against their government, demanding liberty and equality. Thousands of French citizens were massacred and the French king (Louis XVI) was executed. | French Revolution |
| Not siding with one country or the other. | Neutral |
| Under this treaty, the British agreed to pay damages for U.S. vessels they had seized during the French Revolution. However, because it had failed to open the British West Indies for trade with America, it was unpopular. | Jay's Treaty |
| A 1795 treaty with Spain that gave Americans the right to travel freely on the Mississippi River, store goods at New Orleans. It also set the 31st parallel as the northern boundary of Florida and southern boundary of the U.S. | Pinckney's Treaty |
| Relations with the governments of other countries. | Foreign policy |
| A group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government. | Political party |
| In 1797, French agents demanded a bribe of $250,000 and a loan of $10,000,000 from American diplomats in order to talk with France's minister of foreign affairs. | XYZ Affair |
| The Federalist Congress passed these in 1798 targeting immigrants who were not yet citizens. They increased the waiting period for becoming a U.S. citizen from 5 to 14 years, allowed the president to arrest or deport (during war) disloyal aliens. Saying | Alien and Sedition Acts |
| Theory stating that states had rights the federal government couldn't violate. | States' rights |
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