history test ch. 9 vocab
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- Federal Judiciary Act
- law passed by the first Congress that set up lower federal courts
- John Jay
- first chief justice of the U.S Supreme Court
- attorney general
- nation's top legal officer; today also the head of the Department of Justice
- cabinet
- group of executive department heads that serve as the president's chief advisors
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- 1794 battle between Native Americans and American forces over land
- Treaty of Greenville
- 1795 treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded control of much of Ohio and Indiana to U.S government
- Whiskey Rebellion
- 1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey by backcountry farmers
- French Revolution
- revolution overthrowing the government in France that began in 1787 and ended in violence and mass executions
- Jay's Treaty
- agreement that ended the dispute with Britain over American shipping during the French Revolution
- Pinckney's Treaty
- 1795 treaty with Spain allowing U.S. commercial use of the Mississippi River
- John Adams
- Second President of the United States
- XYZ Affair
- 1797 incident in which French Officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants
- States' rights
- idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule
- nullification
- idea that a state could cancel a federal law within the state
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
- resolutions passed by Kentucky and Virginia in 1798 giving the states the right to declare acts of Congress null and void