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| a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams, defended the redcoats | ||
| He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | ||
| United States statesman and leader of the Federalists | ||
| was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary of War. | ||
| United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829) | ||
| French government representative asking for assistance for the French Revolution. Sparked support for the French Revolution and led to the creation of the Democratic-Republican party | ||
| American general during the American Revolution (1745-1796) | ||
| French representative at the Congress of Vienna and limited the demands of other countries upon the French. | ||
| Republican representative jailed for criticizing Adams | ||
| Strict constructionist, 4th president, father of the Constitution, leads nation through War of 1812 | ||
| Chief of the Miami who led a Native American alliance that raided U.S. settlements in the Northwest Territory. He was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Greenville. Later, he became an advocate for peace | ||
| it meant that the federal government would pay off its debts at face value with interest | ||
| way of interpreting the Constitution that allows the federal government to take only those actions the Constitution specifically says it can take | ||
| the act of taking possession of or power over something | ||
| powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution | ||
| a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition | ||
| pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform | ||
| a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) | ||
| The idea advanced by Rousseau, Locke, and Jefferson, that government is created by voluntary agreement among the people involved and that revolution is justified if government breaks the compact by exceeding its authority. | ||
| the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | ||
| a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) | ||
| term for the political party out of power | ||
| British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service | ||
| persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | ||
| Hamilton's plan to solve Revolutionary debt, Assumption highly controversial, pushed his plan through Congress, based on loose interpretation of Constitution | ||
| a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution) | ||
| an uprising of the people that led to the end of the French monarchy and the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | ||
| Was made up by John Jay. It said that Britain was to pay for Americans ships that were seized in 1793. It said that Americans had to pay British merchants debts owed from before the revolution and Britain had agreed to remove their troops from the Ohio Valley | ||
| Agreement which freed America from its alliance with France, forgave French $20 million in damages and resulted in Adams' losing a second term as president | ||
| document which proclaimed official neutrality in the war between England and France | ||
| a protest caused by tax on liquor; it tested the will of the government, Washington's quick response showed the government's strength and mercy | ||
| The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. | ||
| supporters of the constitution | ||
| The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. | ||
| 1795 - Treaty between the U.S. and Spain which gave the U.S. the right to transport goods on the Mississippi river and to store goods in the Spanish port of New Orleans. | ||
| acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government | ||
| The U.S. Army defeated the Native Americans under Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket and ended Native American hopes of keeping their land that lay north of the Ohio River | ||
| Referred to as Washington's Farewell Address. Its main points included: assuming leadership in the Western Hemisphere, developing its own trade, and not entering into permanent alliances with foreign nations, especially with Europe. | ||
| jefferson and madison, democratic republicans, after alien and sedition acts of federalists, said that states could nullify federal laws | ||
| Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong state governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank | ||
| prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court," and such inferior courts as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision, though, for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide. | ||
| This treaty between the Americans and the Native Americans. In exchange for some goods, the Indians gave the United States territory in Ohio. Anthony Wayne was the American representative. | ||
| An insult to the American delegation when they were supposed to be meeting French foreign minister, Talleyrand, but instead they were sent 3 officials Adams called "X,Y, and Z" that demanded $250,000 as a bribe to see Talleyrand. | ||
| An alliance of eight Indian nations who terrorized Americans and were given firearms by the British |
