| A | B |
|---|
| New York | captial of the U.S. Washington took his oath of office here |
| cabinet | a group of advisors to the President |
| Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of State |
| Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of Treasurer |
| Henry Knox | Secretary of Defense |
| Edmund Randolph | Attonrey General |
| Supreme Court | Judiciary Act of 1789 set this up |
| John Jay | first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 1st Bill of Rights | Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press and Assembly |
| 2nd Bill of Rights | Right to Bear Arms |
| 3rd Bill of Rights | Quartering Troops |
| 4th Bill of Rights | Searches and Seizes |
| 5th Bill of Rights | Rights of an Accused Person |
| 6th Bill of Rights | Right to a Speedy and Fair Trial |
| 7th Bill of Rights | Civil Suits |
| 8th Bill of Rights | Bail and Punishment |
| 9th Bill of Rights | Powers Reserved to the People |
| 10th Bill of Rights | Power Reserved to the States |
| tariffs | taxes on imports |
| protective tariffs | taxes on imports to protect American products from foreign competition |
| Alexander Hamilton | believed in a strong central government |
| Alexander Hamilton's Program | pay off the national debt |
| Alexander Hamilton's Program | establish an excise tax on American whiskey |
| Alexander Hamilton's Program | Assuming the states' debts from the Revoluntary War |
| Alexander Hamilton's Program | Creation of a National Bank |
| excise tax | a tax on products made and sold in the United States |
| The Assumption Bill | states' debts incurred during the American Revoluntary War would be paid by the Federal Government |
| implied powers | a power that was not directly stated in the Constitution, but is suggested |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Western farmers refused to pay for the excise tax |
| neutrality | staying neutral - not picking sides - staying out of war |
| Citizen Genet | French Minister to U.S. - he secretly hired Americans to be pirates and to invade British ships |
| Pierre L'Enfant | created the design for the nation's capital city |
| Benjamin Banneker | surveyed the land for the nation's new capital city |
| non-partisan | not divided by politics or cause |
| Republicans | Jefferson and Madison |
| Federalists | Alexander Hamilton |
| Election of 1796 - Republicans | Thomas Jefferson as Pres. & AAron Burr as VP |
| Election of 1796 - Federalists | John Adams as Pres & Thomas Pinckney as VP |
| XYZ Affair | French tried to bribe the Americans - U.S. broke off negotiations |
| Alien Act | required all immigrants to register with the federal government & deported aliens who were dangerous to the U.S. |
| Sedition Act | the attempt to muzzle the Republican press by making it a crime to speak or publish anything that is false/malicious against the Federal Government |
| nullification | a state had a right to refuse to obey the Federal Government if it exced its powers |
