A | B |
Western Penn farmers rebelled against the tax on whiskey | Whiskey Rebellion |
national bank to collect taxes, regulate trade, & provide for the common defense established in 1791 | Bank of the United States |
required importers to pay a percentage of the value of their cargo when they landed it in the US | Tariff of 1789 |
Jefferson believed strength of US is its independent farmers & owning land enabled people to be independent | agrarianism |
powers not explicitly listed in the Constitution but are necessary for the government to do its job | implied powers |
powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution | enumerated powers |
people willing to take a risk in hopes of a future financial gain | speculators |
paper notes promising to repay money after a certain length of time with interest | bonds |
a group of advisors to the president | cabinet |
American merchants would not be discriminated against when they traded with Britain & US can trade with British Caribbean colonies | most-favored nation |
people living in the country who were not citizens | aliens |
incitement to rebellion | sedition |
federal government did something unconstitutional, the state could interpose between the federal government and people to stop it | interpostion |
State governments had the right to void Federal laws deemed unconstitutional | nullification |
Britain had the right to seize cargoes bound for French ports & British gave US most-favored nation status(American merchants treated fairly when trading with Britain), and America could trade with British controlled Caribbean colonies | Jay's Treaty |
granted the US the right to navigate the Mississippi and deposit goods at port of New Orleans | Pinckney's Treaty |
Law passed by Adams Adminisration that allowed the President to expel any foreigner deemed a threat to US security | Alien Act |
Law passed by Adams Administration that would jail anyone who wrote or said anything harmful about the President or the government | Sedition Act |
power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional | judicial review |
British practice of taking American sailors off of American ships caliming they were British deserters-legal kidnapping | impressment |
government ban on trade with other countries | embargo |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that made the Court a poweful and independent branch | John Marshall |
commissioned by President Jefferson for an expedition to trace the Missouri River and find a route to the Pacific Ocean in the Louisiana Territory | Meriwether Lewis & William Clark |
helped as an interpreter for Lewis and Clark during their expedition | Sacagawea |
mapped most of the upper Mississippi and charted a mountain in Colorado | Zebulon Pike |
members of Congress during Madison's presidency who pressed for war with Britain | War Hawks |
feelings of strong patriotism | nationalism |
forbade trade with France and Britain while authorizing the president to reopen trade with which ever one of them dropped it's trade restrictions first | Non-intercourse Act |
Shawnee Indian chief who tried to unite Eastern Indian tribes to fight American settlers coming into their land | Techumseh |
defeated Native Americans in the Battle of Tippecanoe and was the first Whig president(elected in 1840) | William Henry Harrison |
secretly arranged for the construction of a fleet of ships on the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio that beat the British | Oliver Perry |
called for several constitutional amendments to increase the region's political power | Hartford Convention |
ended the War of 1812 on December 24, 1814-restored prewar boundaries and no territory was exchanged, increased US prestige overseas and increased national unity | Treaty of Ghent |
Washington's letter to the American people when leaving office | Washington's Farewell Address |
land purchase(for $11.25 million) from the French(Napoleon Bonaparte needed money for war) that more than doubled the size of the US | Louisiana Purchase |