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7th Grade - Ch. 8 - Establishment of the New Government

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British practice of seizing American sailors and forcing them to serve the British
The _______ War was an undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the US and France. Americans captured 90 French vessels and the US lost only 1 ship.
2nd president
State's act of declaring void any federal law within its boundaries.
The Midnight _______ were 58 judges appointed by John Adams to full time positions late in the night before he left office.
The Virginia ____ Kentucky Resolutions were written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts. Claimed that the states have the right to interpose themselves between the national government and the people if the national government overreaches its powers.
A group of advisers to the president
Thomas Jefferson's Party
In 1798, the Federalists in Congress passed these four laws, claiming that the laws would help protect the country during the threat of war. They also intended the acts to harm the Republican Party and keep it from gaining power
Ran for Vice President in the Election of 1796
Treaty between the US and Britain where the US agreed to limit trade with France, Britain's enemy, and to pay British citizens what American's owed them. The British agreed to abandon their forts in the NW, pay the US for ships seized, and open some ports in the British West Indies to American trade.
A tax paid on the manufacture or sale of certain goods and services within a country
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A proclamation issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, urging Americans to be "impartial" toward all foreign foes and to cease actions that would involve the US in foreign wars
_____ Marshall is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams
The formal ceremony starting a President's term.
In western Pennsylvania during the summer of 1794, angry farmers attacked a federal marshal who tried to arrest a whiskey distiller for not paying the excise tax. George Washington, after inaction by the PA governor, stepped in with the militia to put down the rebellion.
A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats.
Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws
Court case that established judicial review
"Citizen Genet"; French ambassador who tested the Proclamation of Neutrality
The Federalist _____ is Alexander Hamilton's party.
The National ______ was proposed by Hamilton to hold tax revenue in one place and to handle the nation's financial dealings.
_______ of 1800 was a conference between the US and France which ended the naval hostilities of the quasi war.
The Pickney _____ was a treaty made with Spain in 1795 that gave the US the right of deposit at New Orleans and made the 31st parallel of latitude the southern boundary of the US.