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| a person trading in land, commodities, or stocks and bonds in the hope of profiting from changes in the market price; one who engages in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering large gains | ||
| formal withdrawal from an association, as in states withdrawing from the union | ||
| persons who develop and carry out new economic enterprises | ||
| a person who has served an apprenticeship in a trade and who works at it for another | ||
| a tax imposed on products imported from abroad | ||
| a tax imposed on products imported from abroad | ||
| a tax levied on goods and services manufactured, sold, or offered within the country | ||
| a legislative act proclaiming a person's guilt and stipulating punishment without a judicial trial | ||
| uprising; revolution | ||
| a privately owned and manned armed vessel commissioned by a government in time of war to fight the enemy, especially its commercial shipping | ||
| force into service, as with a seaman; to seize or take for public use or service | ||
| the voters and residents of a district, state, or country whom an elected official represents | ||
| an object greatly disliked or hated; a horror | ||
| using the methods or practices of a leader who uses the passions or prejudices of the people for his or her own interests; using the methods or practices of an unprincipled popular orator or agitator | ||
| a supporter of a political party or cause; actions motivated by support of a political party or cause | ||
| a small group of secret plotters | ||
| writing that contains damaging or malicious misrepresentation | ||
| profits or rewards arising from office, such as government service | ||
| body of beliefs | ||
| the incitement of discontent or rebellion against the government; action or language promoting such discontent or rebellion | ||
| Congress quieted popular apprehensions by establishing in each state a federal district court that operated according to local procedures-respected state traditions while offering wide access to federal justice | ||
| drafted by James Madison, who wrote the first 10 amendments which gave states' rights, ratified by December 1791 | ||
| contained recommendations that would at once strengthen the country's credit, enable it to defer paying its debt and entice. Wealthy investors to place their capital at its service | ||
| a Republican, so he greatly opposed Hamilton's proposals | ||
| intended to direct that money toward projects that would diverse the national economy through a federally chartered bank. Proposed bank would raise $10 million through a public stock offering | ||
| led by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. Supported by northern businessmen and large landowners. Believed in: loose interpretation of the Constitution, strong central government, pro-British, large peacetime military, aid business with protective tariffs, supported the National Bank | ||
| led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Supported by small farmers, skilled workers, plantation owners. Believed in: strict constrictions, weak central government, pro-French, small peacetime military, aid agriculture with low/no tariffs, opposed the National Bank | ||
| a civil insurrection, 1794. Hamilton recommended this tax on domestic produced whiskey. | ||
| Preserving peace with honor with Britain. Left Britain free not only to violate American neutrality but also to undermine profits by restricting U.S. trade with France. | ||
| 1798, made it illegal to publish or utter any statements about the government that were "false, scandalous and malicious" with the "intent to defame" or to bring Congress or the president into "contempt or disrepute." |
