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Chapters 10 and 11
Launching the New Ship of State
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| census | an officiual count of population |
| public debt | debt if a governent or nation to individal creditors, aka national debt |
| cabinet | the body of offical advisers to the head of government in the US, it consists of the heads of major execuative departments |
| circuit court | a court that hears cases in several designated locations rather than a single place |
| fiscal | concerning public finances-expenditures and revenues |
| assumption | the taking on of obligations not orginally one's own |
| excise | a tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products |
| stock | the shares of captial ownership gained from investing in a corpoartate enterprise |
| medium of exchange | any item, paper or otherwise used as money |
| despotism | arbitrary or tyrannical rule |
| impress | to force poeple or property into public service without choice |
| assimilation | the erging of diverse cultures or poeples into one |
| witch hunt | an investigation carried on with much publicaity, supposedly to uncover dangerous actuvuty but actually intended to weaken the political oppostion |
| compact | an agreeement or covenant between states to perform some legal act |
| nullification | in american politics, the assertion that a state ay legally invaliudate a federal act deemed inconsisistent with its rights or soveriegnty |
| funding at par | Hamilton's policy of paying off all federal bonds at face value in order to strengthen the national credit |
| Bill of Rights | the name given to the first ten admendments of the constitution. Intended to weaken the federal government by protecting the natural rights of the people |
| Hamilton's financial polices | intended to fund the national debt and to have the federal government assume the depts owed by the states |
| Whiskey Rebellion | showed that the new federal government would use forse if necessary to uphold its authority |
| Kentucky Resolutions | agrued that the states that the right to nullify the unconstitutional federal laws |
| Federalists | believed there should be a strong central government controleld by the wealthy and well educated |
| electoral college | the offical body designated to choose the President under the new constitution which is 1789 unanumously elected George Washington |
| Secretary of Treasury | the cabinet office in Washington's administration headed by a brilliant young West Indian immigratn who distrusted people- Alexander Hamilton |
| political parties | political organizations not envisioned in the Constitution and considered dangerous to national unity by most of the Founding Fathers |
| French Revolution | political and social upheaval supported by most Americans during its moderate beginnings in 1789, bu the cause of biutter divisions after it took a radical turn in 1792 |
| Franco American Aliiance | agreement signed between two antibritish countries in 1778 that increasingly plagued American foreign policy in the 1790s |
| Miami Confederation | Aliiance of eight Indian nations led by Little Turtle that inflicted major defeats on American forces |
| Jay's Treaty | Document signed in 1794 whose terms favoring Britain outraded Jeffersonian Republicans |
| Compact Theory | the political theory on which Jefferson and Madison based their antifederalist sesulations declaring that the thirteen soveriegn states had created the Constition if states found the law unconstitional, they could ignore it |
| XYZ Affair | France's attempt at a bribe. cause the undeclared war between france and america |
| Maor Precedents Made by Washington | Two Term Presidency Cabinet Neutrality |
| Pinckney's Treaty | made with spain. access to the mississippi river, right to deposit- leave goods in New Orleans until ready for transport |
| "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" is a slogan that became popular after what maor incident | XYZ Affair |
| Why was Aaron Burr tried for treason | tried to break off part of the west from the union. Didn't get evicted because there was not enough evidence |
| Chesapeake/Leopard Affair | attack on american ships by the british. Outrage by the american people, inspired nationalism |
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