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ch.9 vocab hm
ch.9 vocab hm
Question | Answer |
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sworn in to a position | inaugurate |
1789-provided for lower less powerful federal courts and gave supreme court six members | Federal Judiciary Act |
The president has the power to appoint the heads of the departments , who were to assist the president with the many issues and problems he had to face | cabinet |
a tax on imported goods(raised money for the gov. and encouraged the growth of American Industry | tariff |
1794- 2000 native americans gather at british fort miami and are met with an american who wins in a clash over the northwest territory | Battle of Fallen Timbers |
1795- twelve tribes agreed to sign the treaty which meant they surrendered or cede much of present day Ohio and Indiana to the US government | Treaty of Greenville |
1794-a group of farmers staged a rebellion by tarring a tax collector and stealing his horse and threatening an attack on pittsburgh,and the government put them down and showed control | Whiskey Rebellion |
1789- a financial crisis that led the french people to rebel against their government | French Revolution |
not siding with one country or the other | neutral |
British agreed to pay damages for US vessels they had seized(unpopular) | Jay's Treaty |
1795- a treaty with Spain that gave Americans the right to travel freely on the mississippi river, the right to store goods at the port of new orleans without paying customs duties,and spain accepted the 31 parellel as the northern boundary of florida | Pickney's Treaty |
relations with the governments of other countries | foreign policy |
a group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government. | political party |
Agents x y and z offered to help the Americans get a time to talk with the French and a minister but for a hefty price which was refused to pay | XYZ Affair |
1798- targeted aliens/ immigrants who were not yet citizens and allowed people to become citizens in 14 years and the president to arrest disloyal aliens and send some out of the country during wartime. it outlawed sedition. | Alien and Sedition Acts |
rights that the states had that the federal government could not violate. | states' rights |