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The American Journey
"DMS" The American Journey Ch. 8
terms | definitions |
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precedent | traditions – something takes place once and then happens again and again regularly |
cabinet | a group of people, leaders or heads of departments who work together |
national debt | the amount of money that a nation’s government owes |
bonds | paper notes promising to repay the money in a certain length of time |
speculators | people who will risk giving their own money and lending it to others in order to make more money |
unconstitutional | against the law of the constitution (not following the rules that were written) |
tariff | a tax on imports (add more cost to items purchased outside of America) |
neutrality | not taking sides in a conflict |
impressment | where the British captured American merchant ships and forced their crews into the British navy |
partisan | in favor of one side of an issue (for one view and against another) |
implied powers | powers that were not specifically forbidden (not allowed) in the Constitution |
caucus | meetings held by the Federalists and Republicans to prepare for the election by choosing possible leaders (for the office of president) from their party. |
aliens | immigrants (people who leave their own country to move to and live in another country) living in the country who were not citizens (and not necessarily loyal to American beliefs) |
sedition | activities that cause the government to become weak |
nullify | legally overturn (cancel, make void) |
state's rights | limiting the federal government to those powers clearly assigned to it by the Constitution and reserving to the states all other powers not specifically forbidden to them |