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Ch.9 Vocab.SA
Question | Answer |
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to swear in or induct into office in a formal ceremony. | inaugurate |
it helped create a court system and gave the Supreme Court six members. | Federal Judiciary Act |
a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers. | cabinet |
a tax on imported goods. | tariff |
in 1794, an American army defeated 2,000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the Northwest Territory. | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
a 1795 agreement in which 12 Native American tribes surrendered much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. government. | Treaty of Greenville |
a 1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey, which was valuable to the livelihood of backcountry farmers. | Whiskey Rebellion |
in 1789, a financial crisis led the French people to rebel against their government demanding liberty and equality. | French Revolution |
not siding with one country or the other. | neutral |
the British agreed to pay damages for U.S. vessels they had seized; it ended the dispute over American shipping. | Jay's Treaty |
in 1795 it gave Americans the right to travel freely on the Mississippi River and store goods at the port of New Orleans and made the 31st parallel the southern U.S. border. | Pickney's Treaty |
relations with the governments of other countries. | foreign policy |
is a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government. | political party |
Adam's full report; a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats. | XYZ Affair |
in 1798 it targeted aliens-immigrants who were not yet citizens and reduced their political power by enacting four laws. | Alien and Sedition Acts |
states had rights that the federal government could not violate; theory that said that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed and unconstitutional law. | states' rights |