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ch.9 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inaugurate | to swear in or induct into office in a formal ceremony |
| Federal Judiciary Act | it helped create a court system and gave the Supreme Court six members |
| Cabinet | a group of department heads who serve as the president’s chief advisers |
| Tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Battle of the 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 |
| 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 store goods in New Orleans |
| Foreign Policy | relations with the governments of other countries |
| Political Party | a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence the government |
| XYZ Affair | a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | a series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States |
| States’ Rights | theory that said states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law |
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