| A | B |
| first vice president | John Adams |
| first secretary treasurer | Alexander Hamilton |
| an outsider or someone from another country | Alien |
| crisis with france | XYZ Affair |
| A federal court system was established by this act of Congress | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| a person who buys things hoping the price will rise and that he or she will make a profit | speculator |
| a general who defeated Native American tribes in the Battle of Fallen Timbers | General Anthony Wayne |
| first secretary of war | Henry Knox |
| tax on imports | tariff |
| tax protest | Whiskey Rebellion |
| author of the Virginia Resolution and ally of Jefferson | James Madison |
| forced into the British navy | impressment |
| Federalist leader | Alexander Hamilton |
| Democratic-Republican leader | Thomas Jefferson |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | Created a federal court system |
| first ten amendments; protects rights of citizens | Bill of Rights |
| Created the idea of states rights | Virginina & Kentucky Resolutions |
| limited immigration | Alien Act |
| first chief justice of the Supreme Court | John Jay |
| first president | George Washington |