Question | Answer |
XYZ affair | diplomatic incident in 1708 in which americans were outraged by the demand of the french for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with american diplomats |
Quasi-War | an undeclared war b/t U.S. and France |
Alien and Sedition Acts | three acts passed by congress that made it harder for new immigrants to vote and made it a crime to criticize the president or congress |
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions | resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson & James Madison that criticized the alien and sedition acts and asserted the rights of states to declare federal law null and void within state |
Republicanism | a complex, changing body of ideas, values, and assumptions that developed in the US around Jefferson's and Madison's political campaigns for presidency |
Tariff | a tax on imports into any nation |
Midnight Judges | a name the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans gave to those judges appointed by the outgoing Federalists president Adams at the end of his term |
Marbury vs. Madison | supreme court decision of 1803 that created the precedent of judicial review by ruling part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 as unconstitutional |
Judicial Review | power implied in the constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by congress and state legislatures |
Wall of separation b/t church and state | a phrase coined by Jefferson to make clear his belief that the first amendment to the constitution guaranteed that governments shouldn't interfere w/ work of churches, and church shouldn't interfere w/ or expect support from the gov. |
Religious establishment | name given to the state church or to the creation of an established church that might play a role in and expect support and loyalty from all citizens |
Diest | one who has a religious orientation that rejects divine revelation and hold that the working of nature alone reveal God's design for the universe |
Second Great Awakening | a serious of religious revivals in the first half of the 1800s characterized by great emotionalism in large public meetings |