New Republic
HMS 8th grade Soc Studies. Chapter 9
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- Edmund Randolph
- attorney general
- Political Party
- Group of people that tries to promote its ideas & influence government
- Whiskey Rebellion
- 1794 Protest against government tax on whiskey valuable to livelihood of back country farmers
- Anthony Wayne
- beat the Native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
- French Revolution
- 1789 - French launched movement for liberty & equality
- John Jay
- first cheif Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Treaty of Greenville
- 1795 agreement - 12 Native American Tribes surrendered present day Ohio & Indiana to US Government
- Virginia Resolution
- Madison said a state could interpose, or place itself between the federal government and its citizens
- John Adams
- first vice president of the U.S.
- Cabinet
- Group of department heads serve as President chief advisor
- Alien & Sedition Acts
- Series of 4 laws enacted in 1798 to reduce political power of recent immigrants to the US
- Mount Vermont
- Washington home in Virginia
- Foreign Policy
- Relations with the government of other countries
- Kentucky Resolution
- Jefferson proposed nullification the idea that a state could nullify the federal law with in the state
- Henery Knox
- seceratary of war
- XYZ Affair
- 1797 - French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats
- Thomas Jefferson
- seceratary of state
- George Washington
- first president of the U.S.
- Hamilton's Financial Plan
- 1 - Pay off all war debts / 2 - Raise government revenues / 3- Create a national bank
- Jay's Treaty
- Agreement that ended dispute over American shipping during French Revolution
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- 1794 - American army defeated 2000 Native Amer. for control of NW Territory
- Inaugurate
- To swear in or conduct into office in a formal ceremony
- Tariff
- Tax on imported goods
- Pinckney's Treaty
- 1795 Treaty with Spain that allowed American's to use Mississippi River and to store goods in New Orleans; made 31st parallel the southern US border
- Federal Judiciary Act
- Helped create court system & gave Supreme Court 6 members
- States Rights
- Theory that said that states had right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
- Alexander Hamilton
- secerataryof treasury