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Chapter 9 RS
Question | Answer |
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to get sworn into office | Inaugurate |
Act passed by congress to create a court system | federal Judiciary Act |
Heads of the departments that help the president | cabinet |
tax on imported foreign goods | tariff |
A battle between Anthony Wayne's troops (American) and a force of about 2,000 Native americans. The Native Americans were defeated. | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
A treaty signed in1795 by 12 native american tribes, surrendering much of present day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S. | Treaty of Greenville |
A group of farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled in 1794 against taxes. | Whiskey Rebellion |
Revolution started in 1789 caused by a financial crisis. Inspired by the American Revolution. | French Revolution |
Not siding with one country or the other. | neutral |
British agreed to pay damages for U.S. vessels they had seized. Did'nt open up the profitable British West Indies trade to Americans, so was unpopular. | Jay's Treaty |
A treaty with Spain in 1795 that gave Americans the right to travel freely on the Mississippi River, and gave them the right to store goods at the port of New Orleans without paying customs duties. | Pinckney's Treaty |
relations with governments of other countries. | foreign policy |
a group of people that try to promote it's ideas and influence the government, and backs canidates for office. | political party |
John Adams wanted to have a talk with the French ministers of foreign affairs. 3 french agents (XYZ) said the minister would hold talks if the Americans loaned the french $10m and with a bribe of $250k. Americans refused. | XYZ affair |
Acts paseed in 1798 that targeted aliens (immigrants who weren't citizens yet). | Alien and Sedition Acts |
Theory that states had rights that the federal government could not violate. | States' rights |