chapter 8 Flashcards
- First secretary of the treasury
alexander hamilton
- First attorney general
Edmund Randolph
- Second president, appointed many federal judges at the end of his term.
john Adams
- First president of the US
George washington
- French citizen, tried to gain American support for France
edmond charles genet
- First secretary of war
Henry Knox
- First chief justice of the Supreme Court, negotiated a treaty with Britain
john Jay
8.First secretary of state, third president
Thomas Jefferson
- Vice president under Jefferson, tied for most electoral votes in 1800
aaron Burr
- Chief justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Adams
john Marshall
- The formal ceremony beginning a president’s term is called the _____.
inauguration
- Levy tariffs and excise taxes, establish a national bank, and repay money borrowed during the war were part of ___________________for the United States.
Hamilton’s financial plan
- The _____ was led by western Pennsylvania farmers who were upset over an excise tax.
the whiskey rebellion
- Washington issued the Proclamation of _____ to stay out of the French Revolution.
proclamation of neutrality
- Forcing captured American sailors to serve on British naval ships was known as _____.
impressment
- Factions, political alliances with nations, and debt were things that ____________cautioned the nation to avoid in his Farewell Address?
washington’s farewell
- The United States almost went to war with _____ because of the XYZ Affair.
france
- The _____ Act extended the time that an immigrant had to live in America before he could gain citizenship to fourteen years. .
naturalization
- The _____ Act declared that any person who said, wrote, or published anything false or malicious against the government could be fined and imprisoned.
sedition acts
- The states’ act of declaring void a federal law is called _____.
nullification
- Republicans argued that the _________________was a violation of their first amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
sedition act
- Washington established a group of advisers called the________________.
the cabinet
- A tax on imported goods is a
tariff
- A tax paid on the manufacture or sale of certain goods and services within a country is an ________________ tax.
excise tax
- A tax paid on the manufacture or sale of certain goods and services within a country is an ________________ tax.
excise tax
- The________________________bank would hold tax revenue for the federal government in one place.
the national bank
- Hamilton’s political party was the _________________________ Party.
federalists
- Jefferson’s political party was the _________________________Party.
anti-federalists
- The US government defeated the Indians and their allies in Ohio at the
battle of fallen Timbers
- The episode between the French agents and the American representatives in France was known as the_________________________ Affair
the xyz
- In 1798 the Federalst-controlled Congress passed four laws known as the ________________ ______Acts which they said would help protect the country during the threat of war.
the allien and Sedition Acts
- The_______________________Resolutions claimed that the states, as a group, had the right to decide whether the national government exceeded its powers.
Virginia-kentucky
- The federal judges Adams appointed late in the night before he left office were called
- In the case ___________________the Supreme Court established the principle that the Supreme Court can declare a law passed by Congress as unconstitutional.
maybury v Maddison
- The right of the Supreme Court to declare a law passed by Congress as unconstitutional is called
judicial review
- Identify two challenges the United States faced as Washington took office.
little money for certain things, weak army and navy
- What compromise was reached in order for Hamilton’s financial plan to be adopted?
south would have to absorbs norths debts
jefferson opposed hamilton’s financial plan because southern states had already paid most of their debts and he felt the national bank would help northerners and not southerns
two ways john marshall changed the supreme court was having justices hold private conferences to discuss cases and by claiming the power of judicial review
jefferson opposed hamilton’s financial plan because southern states had already paid most of their debts and he felt the national bank would help northerners and not southerns
two ways john marshall changed the supreme court was having justices hold private conferences to discuss cases and by claiming the power of judicial review
