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| 1216977367 | census | an official count of population; in the United States, the federal census occurs every ten years | 1 | |
| 1216977368 | public debt | the debt of a government or nation to individual creditors, also called the national debt | 2 | |
| 1216977369 | cabinet | the body of official advisers to the head of a government; in the United States, it consists of the heads of the major executive departments | 3 | |
| 1216977370 | circuit court | a court that hears cases in several designated locations rather than a single place | 4 | |
| 1216977371 | fiscal | concerning public finances---expenditures and revenues | 5 | |
| 1216977372 | excise | a tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products | 6 | |
| 1216977373 | stock | the shares of capital ownership gained from investing in a corporate enterprise; the term also refers to the certificates representing such shares | 7 | |
| 1216977374 | medium of exchange | any item, paper or otherwise, used as money | 8 | |
| 1216977375 | despotism | arbitrary or tyrannical rule | 9 | |
| 1216977376 | impress | to force people or property into public service without choice; conscript | 10 | |
| 1216977377 | assimilation | the merging of diverse cultures or peoples into one | 11 | |
| 1216977378 | witch-hunt | an invertigation arried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition | 12 | |
| 1216977379 | compact | an agreement or covenant between states to perform some legal act | 13 | |
| 1216977380 | Vice President | The constitutional office into which John Adams was sworn on April 30, 1789 | 14 | |
| 1216977381 | Secretary of the Treasury | The cabinet office in Washington's administration headed by a brilliant young West Indian immigrant who distrusted the people | 15 | |
| 1216977382 | Funding at Par | Alexander Hamilton's policy of paying off all federal bonds at face value in order to strengthen the national credit | 16 | |
| 1216977383 | Assumption | Hamilton's policy of having the federal government pay the financial obligations of the states; the appropriation or taking on of obligations not originally ones own | 17 | |
| 1216977384 | Bill of Rights | First ten amendments of the US Constitution | 18 | |
| 1216977385 | Political Parties | Political organizations not envisioned in the Constitution and considered dangerous to national unity by most of the Founding Fathers | 19 | |
| 1216977386 | French Revolution | Political and social upheaval supported by most Americans during its moderate beginnings in 1789, but the cause of bitter divisions after it took a radical turn in 1792 | 20 | |
| 1216977387 | Franco-American Alliance | Agreement signed between two anti-British countries in 1778 that increasingly plagued American foreign policy in the 1790s | 21 | |
| 1216977388 | Miami Confederacy | Alliance of eight Indian nations led by Little Turtle that inflicted major defeats on American forces in the early 1790s | 22 | |
| 1216977389 | Jay's Treaty | Document signed in 1794 whose terms favoring Britain outraged Jeffersonian Republicans | 23 | |
| 1216977390 | France | The nation with which the United States fought an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800 | 24 | |
| 1216977391 | Compact Theory | The political theory on which Jefferson and Madison based their antifederalist resolutions declaring that the thirteen sovereign states had created the Constitution | 25 | |
| 1216977392 | Nullification | The doctrine, proclaimed in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, that a state can block a federal law it considers unconstitutional | 26 | |
| 1216977393 | Britain | The nation to which most Hamiltonian Federalists were sentimentally attached and which they favored in foreign policy | 27 | |
| 1216977394 | Whiskey Rebellion | A protest by poor western farmers that was firmly suppressed by Washington and Hamilton's army | 28 | |
| 1216977395 | Supreme Court | Body organized by the Judiciary Act of 1789 and first headed by John Jay | 29 | |
| 1216977396 | Alexander Hamilton | Brilliant administrator and financial wizard whose career was plagued by doubts about his character and belief in popular government | 30 | |
| 1216977397 | Republicans | Political party that believed in the common people, no government aid for business, and a pro-French foreign policy | 31 | |
| 1216977398 | Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 | President Washington's statement of the basic principles of American foreign policy in his administration | 32 | |
| 1216977399 | James Madison | Skillful politician-scholar who drafted the Bill of Rights and moved it through the First Congress | 33 | |
| 1216977400 | Bank of the United States | Institution established by Hamilton to create a stable currency and bitterly opposed by states' rights advocates | 34 | |
| 1216977401 | Funding and Assumption | Hamilton's aggressive financial policies of paying off all federal bonds and taking on all state debts | 35 | |
| 1216977402 | Alien and Sedition Acts | Harsh and probably unconstitutional laws aimed at radical immigrants and Jeffersonian writers | 36 | |
| 1216977403 | Treaty of Greenville | Agreement between the United States and Miami Indians that ceded much of Ohio and Indiana while recognizing a limited sovereignty for the Miamis | 37 | |
| 1216977404 | Farewell Address | Message telling America that it should avoid unnecessary foreign entanglements; a reflection of the foreign policy of its author | 38 | |
| 1216977405 | XYZ | Secret code names for three French agents who attempted to extract bribes from American diplomats in 1797 | 39 | |
| 1216977406 | Thomas Jefferson | Washington's secretary of state and the organizer of a political party opposed to Hamilton's policies | 40 | |
| 1216977407 | Federalists | Political party that believed in a strong government run by the wealthy, government aid to business, and a pro-British foreign policy | 41 | |
| 1216977408 | Electoral College | the official body designated to choose the President under the new Constitution, which in 1789 unanimously elected George Washington | 42 | |
| 1216977409 | Census of 1790 | effort that counted 4 million Americans | 43 |
