| A | B |
|---|
| George Washington | America's first president |
| Mount Vernon | Washington's plantation |
| Martha Washington | America's first First Lady |
| New York City | America's first capital city |
| Philadelphia | America's second capital city |
| Mr. President | How you should address the president (at least until there is a female president) |
| Parson Weems | author of the false story about Washington and the cherry tree |
| Wooden teeth | Washington had false teeth, but not this kind |
| Cabinet | The president's closest advisors |
| Henry Knox | Washington's Secretary of War |
| Thomas Jefferson | Washington's Secretary of State |
| Alexander Hamilton | Washington's Secretary of the Treasury |
| Bank of the United States | created by Alexander Hamilton to handle the government's money |
| Implied Powers | powers hinted at by the Constitution are legal |
| Strict Construction | only powers listed in the Constitution are legal |
| Protective Tariff | Hamilton taxed imports to protect fledgling US industry |
| Washington, DC | third US capital |
| Excise Tax | a tax assessed on the producer |
| Whiskey Tax | first federal tax in US history |
| Moon Shining | illegally making liquor |
| John Jay | first chief justice of the US Supreme Court |
| Jeffersonians | political party founded by Jefferson in opposition to Hamilton and the Federalists |
| Whiskey Rebellion | tax revolt against the Whiskey Tax in frontier Pennsylvania |
| Washington's Farewell Address | Washington warns against political parties and foreign alliances |
| Harmar's Defeat | Josiah Harmar's US army defeated by chief Little Turtle |
| St. Clair's Defeat | worst defeat ever suffered by the US by Native Americans |
| battle of Fallen Timbers | Anthony Wayne defeats Little Turtle 1794 |
| French Revolution | France overthrows the King and Queen, eventually beheads them |
| Edmond Genet | Frenchman who demanded that the US send military aid to France |
| Federalists | US political party that favored Great Britain |
| Jeffersonians | US political party that favored France |
| Jay's Treaty | Treaty between US and Great Britain, British troops leave US soil |
| Pinckney Treaty | Spain agrees to let US use Mississippi River and New Orleans |
