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7689327177Judiciary Act of 1789Legislation passed by Congress that created the federal court system, each state would have 3 circuit courts and one federal court0
7689371733Bill of RightsA safeguard of personal rights: freedom of speech and religion,mandate legal procedures (trial by jury)1
7689414325Report on the Public CreditHamilton asked congress to redeem 55 million in confederation securities held by foreign and domestic inventors2
7689435033Bank of the United StatesChartered by Hamilton, would be owned by private stockholders and national government3
7689467816Report on ManufacturersUrged the expansion of American manufacturing (Hamilton did not support High Tariffs that would exclude other foreign products)4
7689556174Proclamation of Neutralityallowing US citizens to trade with all belligerents5
7689583617French Revolutionabolished feudalism and established a constitutional monarchy6
7689599483Jacobinsmembers of a revolutionary political club made during the French Revolution7
7689687914Whiskey Revolutiona protest to Hamilton's tax on spirits, tax had cut demand for the corn whiskey the farmers distilled and bartered for eastern manufacturers8
7689737442Jays 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
7689823791Haitian Revolutionconflict involving diverse Haitian participants and armies from three European Countries10
7689958345XYZ 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
7690076594Naturalization ActLengthened residency requirement or American citizenship from 5 to 14 years12
7690104061Alien ActAuthorized deportation of foreigners13
7690113240Sedition Actprohibited the publication of insults or malicious attacks on the president or member of congress14
7690137691Virginia and Kentucky Resolutionsset for the states rights interpretation of the constitution, asserting that states had a "right to judge the legitimacy of national laws15
7690166145Treaty of GreenvilleAmerican negotiators acknowledged the Indian ownership of land and in return of various payments the Western Confederacy ceded most of Ohio16
7690223918Marbury 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
7690260328Louisiana Purchase1803 purchase of French territory west of the Mississippi river that stretched from the golf of Mexico to Canada18
7690313398The Embargo Actprohibited American ships from leaving their home ports until France and Britain stopped restricting US trade19
7690333761Battle of TippecanoeAttack on Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in 1811 by American forces headed by William Henry Harrison, Indianas Territorial governor20
7690395679Treaty of Ghentretained the prewar borders of the US, signed on Christmas Eve21
7690421937McCulloch v Maryland (1819)Second Bank of America allowed the bank to set up state branches that competed with state chartered banks22
7690493309Adams-Onis treatypersuaded Spain to cede the Florida territory to the US23
7690529164Monroe Doctrinepledged that the US wouldn't interfere in the international concerns of European Nations24

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