Vocabulary

Question 1

Inauguration

Answer 1

Ceremony in which the President officially takes the Oath of Office.

Question 2

National Debt

Answer 2

The total sum of money that the government owes to others.

Question 3

French Revolution

Answer 3

A 1789 rebellion in France that end the French Monarchy for a time.

Question 4

Faction

Answer 4

Opposing group within a party

Question 5

states’ rights

Answer 5

The heights of states to limit power of government.

Question 6

Laissez faire

Answer 6

Idea that government should play as small role as possible in eco affairs

Question 7

Precedent

Answer 7

Act or decision that sets an an example for others to follow

Question 8

Cabinet

Answer 8

Group of officials who head government departments and advise thee president

Question 9

Judiciary act

Answer 9

Law that created the structure of the supreme court and set up a system of district courts and circuit courts for the government

Question 10

Bank of the United States

Answer 10

Bank set up in 1791 to hold government deposits and to issue paper money to pay government bills

Question 11

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 11

A 1794 protest over a tax on all liquor made and sold in the United States

Question 12

foreign policy

Answer 12

Actions That a nation takes in relation to each other

Question 13

Neutrality proclomation

Answer 13

A 1793 statement by Washington that thee Us would not support France or Britain in the war

Question 14

Democratic Republican

Answer 14

People who supported Jefferson

Question 15

Sedition

Answer 15

Stirring up a rebellion against the government

Question 16

Alien and Sedition acts

Answer 16

!798, A law that states the president can expel foreigners

Question 17

nullification

Answer 17

Idea that a state has the right to nullify a federal law

Question 18

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Answer 18

Declaration passed in 1799 that claimed each state has the right to decide if a federal law is constitutional

Question 19

free market

Answer 19

Economic system in which the government has little regulation

Question 20

Marbury vs Madison

Answer 20

1803 court case which supreme court led that it had the power to decide whether laws were constitutional

Question 21

Judicial Reveiw

Answer 21

Power of supreme court to decide whether the acts of a president are constitutional

Question 22

Pinckney treaty

Answer 22

1995 agreement with Spain that led the Americans shipped goods to the Mississippi river

Question 23

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 23

Vast territory between the Mississippi river and rocky mountains, Owned by France, Then bought by America for 15 million

Question 24

Continental divide

Answer 24

Mountain range that separates river systems flowing to opposite sides of continents