| A | B |
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| inaugurate | sworn in as a public official |
| Federal Judiciary Act | gave the Supreme Court 6 members: a chief justice or judge, and 5 associate justices |
| cabinet | heads of departments who assist the president with the many issues and problems he has to face |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| George Washington | first president of the United States |
| John Adams | runner-up in the first presidential election and therefore became our first vice-president |
| precedent | an example that would become standard practice |
| judiciary | system of courts and judges |
| "Mr. President" | term used to address the President |
| John Jay | US first supreme court justice; New York lawyer and diplomat |
| Henry Knox | 1st secretary of war |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1st secretary of state and US minister to France |
| Alexander Hamilton | 1st secretary of treasury |
| Edmund Randolph | 1st attorney general |
| Hamilton's Financial Plan | pay off war debts, raise gov't revenues, create a national bank |
| currency | money |
| strict construction | narrow or strict interpretation of the Constitution |
| loose construction | a broad or flexible interpretation of the Constitution |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | 1794, an American army defeated 2000 Native Americans in a clash over control of the Northwest Territory |
| Treaty of Greenville | agreement in which 12 Native American tribes surrendered much of present day Ohio and Indiana to the US government |
| Whiskey Rebellion | protest against the government's tax on whiskey, which was valuable to the livelihood of backcountry farmers |
| French Revolution | French launched a movement for liberty and equality |
| neutral | not siding with one country or another |
| Jay's Treaty | agreement that ended dispute over American shipping during the French Revolution |
| Pinckney's Treaty | agreement with Spain that allowed Americans to sue the Mississippi River and to store goods in New Orleans; made the 31st parallel the southern US border |
| foreign policy | relations with the governments of other countries |
| political party | group of people that tries to promote its ideas and influence government and also backs candidates for office |
| XYZ Affair | an incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | a series of 4 laws to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the US |
| states' rights | theory that said that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law |
| Mount Vernon | George Washington's estate |
| Federalists | Hamilton and many Northern merchants and manufacturers |
| Democratic Republicans | Jefferson and Madison started this political party |
| First Presidential Elections in which political parties competed | in 1796 John Adams won the presidenc and Thomas Jefferson became the vice president |
| John Adams | 1st president to govern from Washington D.C. |
