US Cultures Chapter 6
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- Judiciary Act of 1789
- Created the Supreme Court w/ a Chief Justice and 5 associate justices
- War Hawks
- Congressmen from the South and West that wanted to go to war with Britian
- Aaron Burr
- ran with Thomas Jefferson
- Lewis & Clark
- explored the Louisiana Territory
- Sedition Act
- allowed government to put people in jail for making negative comments about the government
- Little Turtle
- leader of the Miami Confederation - urged allies to make peace with General Wayne
- Embargo
- Ban on exporting goods
- XYZ Affair
- caused strong anti-French feelings int eh US
- Thomas Pinckney
- helped secure a treaty with Spain and gave the US shipping rights on the US
- Armistice
- end of fighting
- Virginia & Kentucky Resolution
- claimed that states have the right to consider any act of Congress as unconstitutional
- Federalists
- political party of John Adams
- Nullification
- Void
- Impressment
- Taking Americans at sea and drafting them into the British army
- Sectionalism
- attitude that the country was being divided into sections
- Neutrality
- Not taking sides.. what the US did during the war between France and Britian
- Chief Tecumseh
- Tried to organize a confederation (army) of Native Americans