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| Federalist | is a person who supports a system of government where power is divided between a central national government and individual state governments. In favor of a stronger centralized government. |
| Anti-Federalists (Democratic Republican) | was a member of a late-18th-century political coalition that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and fought against the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution |
| Alexander Hamilton | was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1789 |
| Edmond-Charles Genêt | was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the United States led to a major political and international incident termed the "Citizen Genêt Affair." Because of his actions, President George Washington asked the French government to recall him |
| Whiskey Rebellion | was a 1791–1794 violent tax protest in the United States against a federal excise tax on distilled spirits |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | August 20, 1794, was a quick and decisive military fight where U.S. troops beat a group of Native American tribes in modern-day Ohio |
| General “Mad” Anthony Wayne | founding father, Revolutionary war General, known for his military exploits and fiery personality, victor of the Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| Treaty of Greenville | ended the Northwest Indian War of 1785–1795 in the Ohio Country of the old Northwest Territory (1787–1803), and limited Indian country to remaining lands of northwestern Ohio, and began the practice of annual payments of goods, supplies and food, following the land concessions. |
| Jay Treaty | was a 1794 agreement between the United States and Great Britain that averted war and resolved lingering tensions from the Revolutionary War. US to pay debts owed ot Great Britain |
| Pickney Treaty | , was a 1795 agreement between the United States and Spain that resolved major border disputes and boosted American trade. |
| John Adams | was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. |
| Impressment | is the forced recruitment and seizure of individuals into compulsory military or naval service through intimidation or physical coercion |
| XYZ Affair | political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, substitution of letters for 3 French diplomats that wanted 250,000 gold flourins to Foreign Minister Talleyrand in order to speak to Napolean. |
| Alien and sedition acts | Passed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans (citizenship from 5 to 14 years) and limited speech critical of the government (prison time) |
| Nullification crisis 1798 | constitutional theory argued by Madison and Jefferson in the Virginia and Kentucky resolves, argued that the states could declare unconstitutional federal laws void. |
