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Ch.#9
Ch.9 BN
Question | Answer |
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inaugurated | sworn in |
Federal Judiciary Act | 1789, this act gave the supreme court six members: chief justice and five associative justices |
cabinet | heads of the depatments that help the president lead the nation and are chosen by the president to assist in issues and problems he may face |
tariff | a tax on imported goods |
Battle of Fallen Timbers | an americanarmy defeated 2,000 Native americans in a clash over control of the Northwest territory |
Treaty of Greenville | in 1795, twelve tribes signed in aggreement to surrender much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US |
Whiskey rebellion | summer of 1794, a group of farmers in western Pennsyvannia staged a rebellion against tax |
French Rebellion | in 1789, a financial crisis led french people to rebel against the government and demanded liberty and equality |
neutral | not siding with one country or the other |
Jay's Treaty | hoped to persuade the British to give up forts on the Northwest frontier, the british agreed to pay for the damages for Us vessels they had seized, opened the the profitable british west indies |
Pickney's Treaty | Spain gave Americans the right to travel freely on the Mississippi river and gave the right to store goods at port New Orleans |
foreign policy | relations with the government of other countries |
political party | a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government |
XYZ Affair | a 1797 incident in which french officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats |
Alein and Sedition Acts | 1798, these acts targeted aleins. one act increased the waiting period for becoming a US citizen from 5 to 14 years. others gave the president the power to arrest disloyal aleins or order them out of the country during wartime |
states' right | states had rights that the federal government could not violate. |