| A | B |
|---|
| X, Y, and Z | French agents; demanded payment for not attacking American ships |
| Charles de Tallyrand | Refused to see American represenatives - trying to avoid war |
| XYZ Afair | happened because the French were attacking American ships |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | came about because Americans were suspicious of foreign people coming to America |
| Meant to Protect the nation's security | Alien and Sedition Acts |
| sedition | activities aimed at weakening established government |
| aliens | immigrants lining in the country; not citizens |
| Alien Act | President could deport citizens he felt were dangerous |
| The Sedition Act | made it a crime to speak, write or publish "false, scandalour and malicious" criticisms of the government |
| Election of 1796 | Adams: President; Jefferson: Vice President |
| President and Vice President | From opposite/opposing political parties in 1796 |
| Hamiton prefered | loose construction; believed in "implied powers" from elastic clause |
| Jefferson | strict construction |
| The Democratic-Republicans | Thomas Jefferson's party |
| The Federalists | Alexander Hamilton's party |
| Meeting where political parties choose canidates | caucuses |
| Deciding political issues along strict part lines | partisan politics |
| Washington set the cours | Mr. President; two terms; neutrality |
| Impressment | British ships attacked American vessles, forced sailors to work on British ships |
| Jay's Treaty | most Americans thought it was dishonoralbe; didn't end impressment |
| Removed British from Ameircan soil | Jay's Treaty |
| Proclamation of Neutrality | Washington's: forbade citizens from fighting in the war between France and England; kept their ships out of American ports |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Washington and 1300 troops stop angry farmers |
| Showed the power of the Federal government | Whiskey Rebellion |
| Whisky making farmers | angry over Whiskey Tax |
| Ohio Valley | American's broke treaties to farm there |
| Land that belonged to Native Americans by Treaty | The Ohio River Valley |
| Hamilton's way of building an industrial nation | protective tariffs |
| Washington D.C. | Compromise to win Southern support for Hamilton's financial plan |
| speculators | bought bonds at low prices would profit when government paid them off |
| The Judiciary Act of 1789 | established federal and state court system; Federal courts could overturn state decisions |
| Slavery issue in Kansas and Nebraska decided by | popular sovereignty |
| Stephen Douglass replaces 36 30' with | the kansas Nebraska Act |
| Senator Wilmot introduces the | Wilmot Proviso in 1846 |
| Wilmot Proviso disalowed slavery in territories gained from | Mexico |
| Wilmot Proviso was proposed | during the War against Mexico |
| 1857-58 | The Lecompton constitution established |
| Proslavery minded people who rallied the constitution convention at Lecompton | Attempted to swing the would-be state into slavery state |
| Birth place of the Civil War | at the creation of the Lecompton Constitution |
| Fugitive Salve Act of 1850 | written to apease the South |
| abolitionists | Fugitive Slave Act punished by $1,000 fines or prison time |
| California admitted as a free state | The Compromise of 1850 |
| Slave Hunters/Federal Agents | People who would search for runaways to return them to slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | A slave who ran away and became a guide for the underground railroad |
| took some 300 slaves to freedom in Canada | Harriet Tubman |
| Levi Coffin | The president of the Underground Railroad |
| A Quaker | Levi Coffin |
| Wants the transcontinential railroad built from Illinois | Stephen Douglass |
| Senate Representation divided 15 Free to 15 Slave | the Union at the time of the Compromise of 1850 |
| New Mexico | No restrictions (Comp. of 1850) |
| New Mexico/Texas Boarder | in favor of New Mexico (Comp of 1850) |
| Slave Trade ended in D.C. | existing slavery could continue (Comp. 1850) |
| California admitted as free state | Comp. of 1850 |
| Dividing Comp of 1850 into parts | Congressmen could voted against parts they disliked |
| Opened up Kansas - Nebraska Territory | Compromise of 1850 |
