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15502730742Judiciary Act of 1789Legislation passed by Congress that created the federal court system, each state would have 3 circuit courts and one federal court0
15502730743Bill of RightsA safeguard of personal rights: freedom of speech and religion,mandate legal procedures (trial by jury)1
15502730744Report on the Public CreditHamilton asked congress to redeem 55 million in confederation securities held by foreign and domestic inventors2
15502730745Bank of the United StatesChartered by Hamilton, would be owned by private stockholders and national government3
15502730746Report on ManufacturersUrged the expansion of American manufacturing (Hamilton did not support High Tariffs that would exclude other foreign products)4
15502730747Proclamation of Neutralityallowing US citizens to trade with all belligerents5
15502730748French Revolutionabolished feudalism and established a constitutional monarchy6
15502730749Jacobinsmembers of a revolutionary political club made during the French Revolution7
15502730750Whiskey Revolutiona protest to Hamilton's tax on spirits, tax had cut demand for the corn whiskey the farmers distilled and bartered for eastern manufacturers8
15502730751Jays Treatytreaty between the united states and the Britain, negotiated by John Jay,accepted Britain's right to stop neutral ships but allowed American citizens to submit claims for illegal seizures and required British to remove their troops for Indian agents from the Northwest Territory9
15502730752Haitian Revolutionconflict involving diverse Haitian participants and armies from three European Countries10
15502730753XYZ AffairFrench foreign minister talleyrand solicited a loan and bribe from from American diplomats to stop the seizures, Adams charged Talleyrands agents he dubbed at X Y and Z, had insulted Americas honor11
15502730754Naturalization ActLengthened residency requirement or American citizenship from 5 to 14 years12
15502730755Alien ActAuthorized deportation of foreigners13
15502730756Sedition Actprohibited the publication of insults or malicious attacks on the president or member of congress14
15502730757Virginia and Kentucky Resolutionsset for the states rights interpretation of the constitution, asserting that states had a "right to judge the legitimacy of national laws15
15502730758Treaty of GreenvilleAmerican negotiators acknowledged the Indian ownership of land and in return of various payments the Western Confederacy ceded most of Ohio16
15502730759Marbury vs Madison (1803)Marbury asserted that Madison had the right to appointment but that the court did not have the constitutional power to enforce it.17
15502730760Louisiana Purchase1803 purchase of French territory west of the Mississippi river that stretched from the golf of Mexico to Canada18
15502730761The Embargo Actprohibited American ships from leaving their home ports until France and Britain stopped restricting US trade19
15502730762Battle of TippecanoeAttack on Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in 1811 by American forces headed by William Henry Harrison, Indianas Territorial governor20
15502730763Treaty of Ghentretained the prewar borders of the US, signed on Christmas Eve21
15502730764McCulloch v Maryland (1819)Second Bank of America allowed the bank to set up state branches that competed with state chartered banks22
15502730765Adams-Onis treatypersuaded Spain to cede the Florida territory to the US23
15502730766Monroe Doctrinepledged that the US wouldn't interfere in the international concerns of European Nations24

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