Chapter 6 test Flashcards
Judiciary Act of 1789
Created a federal court system
Congress also created three departments to assist the president
- State department to handle foreign affairs, 2. War Department to manage military affairs, 3. Treasury Department to oversee the nation’s finances
Capitalism
Economic system based on a free market and private ownership of property
To finance the Revolutionary War
The Continental Congress had sold government bonds
Alexander Hamilton proposed strengthening the nation’s finances by
Setting up a national bank with branches
Loose construction
Belief that the government can do anything that is not strictly forbidden by the Constitution
Hamilton’s financial programs were considered unfair at the time by
Western farmers
Whiskey Rebellion
Farmers protest of a federal tax
Impressment
Kidnapping of sailors from American ships
Treaty of Greenville
Gave Native American land to the United States following the confederations defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
Pinckney’s Treaty
Gave Americans the right of deposit at New Orleans and set the U.S. Southern Boundary at the 31st parallel
Important results of both Jay’s Treaty and Pinckney’s Treaty included
gaining economic advantages
Sectionalism
Regional loyalty that led to the growth of the two-party political system
Two Party System
Developed as a result of sectionalism and rivalry between Federalists and Republicans
The following were causes of tension between the United States and France in the 1790s
- The XYZ affair, 2. U.S. neutrality, 3. Jay’s Treaty