Full Vocabulary from chapter 8 of the "Out of Many" AP United States History textbook
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| 1791044893 | Shay's rebellion | an armed movement of debt-ridden farmers in western Massachusetts in the winter of 1786-1787, the rebellion created a crisis atmosphere | 0 | |
| 1791044894 | nationalists | group of leaders in the 1780s who spearheaded the drive to replace the Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government | 1 | |
| 1791044895 | annapolis convention | conference of state delegates at Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in September 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes | 2 | |
| 1791044896 | virginia plan | proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population | 3 | |
| 1791044897 | new jersey plan | proposal of the New Jersey delegation for a strengthened national government in which all states would have an equal representation in a unicameral legislature | 4 | |
| 1791044898 | great compromise (CT) | plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature | 5 | |
| 1791044899 | federalists | supporters of the Constitution who favored its ratification | 6 | |
| 1791044900 | anti federalists | opponents of the Constitution in the debate over its ratification | 7 | |
| 1791044901 | judiciary act of 1789 | act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the Supreme Court and a system of lower federal courts | 8 | |
| 1791044902 | judicial review | a power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress and state legislatures | 9 | |
| 1791044903 | tariff of 1789 | apart from a few selected industries, this first tariff passed by Congress was intended to raise revenue and not protect American manufacturers from foreign competition | 10 | |
| 1791044904 | intercourse act | basic law passed by Congress in 1790 which stated that the United States would regulate trade and interaction with Indian tribes | 11 | |
| 1791044905 | treaty of greenville | treaty of 1795 in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the United States | 12 | |
| 1791044906 | jay's treaty | treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships | 13 | |
| 1791044907 | federalism | the sharing of powers between the national government and the states | 14 | |
| 1791044908 | republicans | party headed by Thomas Jefferson that formed in opposition to the financial and diplomatic policies of the Federalist Party; favored limiting the powers of the national government and placing the interests over those of financial and commercial groups | 15 | |
| 1791044909 | xyz affair | diplomatic incident in 1798 in which Americans were outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats | 16 | |
| 1791044910 | quasi war | undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800 between the United States and France | 17 | |
| 1791044911 | alien and sedition acts | collective name given to four acts passed by Congress in 1798 that curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreign residents in the United States | 18 | |
| 1791044912 | states' rights | favoring the rights of individual states over rights claimed by the national government | 19 | |
| 1791044913 | suffrage | the right to vote in a political election | 20 | |
| 1791044914 | Thomas Jefferson | secretary of state | 21 | |
| 1791044915 | Alexander Hamilton | treasury | 22 | |
| 1791044916 | Henry Knox | war department | 23 | |
| 1791044917 | Edmund Randolph | attorney general | 24 | |
| 1791044918 | John Marshal | chief justice | 25 | |
| 1791341586 | Spain | -Wished to stop americans from expanding west -Wanted to reinstate their influence in North America -Had control of the Mississippi River until Pinckney's Treaty which gave the US the right of deposit. | 26 | |
| 1793711539 | Whiskey Rebellion | -farmers protest the excise tax on the distillation of whiskey -Mingo Creek militia | 27 | |
| 1793711540 | Pinckney's Treaty | -gives US the right of deposit -big ships leave goods for smaller ships to take up the mississippi. -Spain tried to tax US every time they used the river→ treaty gets rid of tax | 28 | |
| 1793711541 | Farewell Address | -American disinterest in the affairs of Europe -"peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" | 29 | |
| 1793768353 | Griswold | (likes slavery) uses his cane to attack Lyon in Massachusetts when arguing over slavery | 30 | |
| 1793768354 | Lyon | (dislikes slavery) was attacked with a cane by Griswold in Massachusetts when arguing over slavery. | 31 | |
| 1793768355 | Nullification | -legal theory that said Congress can't pass Alien and Sedition Acts --allows states to ignore the A & S Acts -written secretly | 32 | |
| 1793768356 | Revolution of 1800 | -first time in history to resolve problem w/o shots fired -took gov't and gave opposing party a chance to govern people better | 33 | |
| 1793768357 | Articles of Confederation | -first form of government -doesn't give the gov. a lot of power (confederation) -negative connotation of democracy-Greeks | 34 | |
| 1793791726 | Annapolis | -convention to consider changing the articles -ended up throwing them out | 35 | |
| 1793791727 | James Madison | found flaws in past Democracies such as Greece | 36 |
