| A | B |
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| George Washington | 1st president of US |
| John Adams | 2nd president of US |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of US |
| Cabinet | the official advisors of the president |
| Precedent | example that becomes standard practice |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Sedition | saying or writing anything false or harmful against the government |
| State’s Rights | theory that states had the right to judge a federal law unconstitutional |
| Impressment | the act of seizing by force |
| Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 | Set up a federal court system and gave the Supreme Court 6 members |
| First chief of justice of the supreme court | John Jay |
| Secretary of state under Washington | Thomas Jefferson |
| Secretary of war | Henry Knox |
| Why did the political parties form | they disagreed on how the government should be run |
| Hamilton’s Financial Plans | pay off all war debts and create a national bank and raise government revenues |
| The Whiskey Rebellion | protest by Pennsylvanian farmers against the Whiskey Tax and it showed that the national government was strong enough to enforce its laws |
| The precedents that Washington set | serve 2 year terms as president and meet with his cabinet and being called Mr President and limited involvement in legislation |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts | it violated Amendment one by not allowing the freedom of speech and press |
| John Adams | the president when the Alien and Sedition Acts were created |
| What did Washington say in his Farwell Address | avoid political parties and make no permanent alliances |
| The XYZ affair | when French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats in order for them to talk to the French minister |
| Alexander Hamilton | he was shot by Aaron Burr in a duel |
| Who was responsible for the Lousiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson |
| From which country did the US buy the Louisiana Purchase and for how much | France for 15 million |
| Why was Napoleon willing to sell the Louisiana Territory | He needed money to fight wars in Europe |
| The Louisiana Territory | to get control of the port of New Orleans and add new territory to the nation and to remove France as a threat to North American |
| Why was the president troubled about the Louisiana Purchase | Because Jefferson was a strict constructionalist and that the Constitution said nothing about the president having power to buy land |
| What did the Louisiana Purchase do for the size of the United States | doubled the size |
| The location of the Louisiana Territory | in the middle of the US from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains |
| Lewis and Clark | explored the Louisiana Territory |
| What did Jefferson want to do to the government when he entered office | he did away with many Federalist programs and decreased the power of the national government |
| Judicial review | gives the Supreme Court the power to declare laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional |
| Marbury vs. Madison | established the principle of judicial review |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of Supreme Court that ruled on the Marbury vs Madison case |
| The Embargo Act of 1807 | US ships couldn’t sail to foreign ports and closed American ports to British ships and this led to a disaster in the US because trade was almost completely stopped |
