Important People or Groups
Key Terms
Setting Precedents
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100
First president of the U.S.
Who is George Washington?
100
A group of advisers to the president.
What is a Cabinet?
100
The chief officer of a nation or country.
What is a president?
100
Someone who proposed many things to the federal government. 33 years old
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
100
Plantation manager and soldier.
Who is George Washington?
200
National legislative body of the U.S.
What is Congress?
200
One paid directly to the government rather than being included in the price of good.
What is direct tax?
200
The lower legislative house of the United States Congress. Makes half of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
Tax on imports.
What is a tariff?
200
The branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from the 1790s.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
One paid by a manufacturer and passed on to those who buy the product.
What is excise tax?
300
Protects personal liberties, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and trial by jury.
What is The Bill of Rights?
300
Hamilton proposed this to the federal government in the 1790s. Place to deposit tax receipts.
What is a national bank?
300
Part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the country.
What is the Executive Branch?
400
Creator of the painting "The Inspection of the First U.S. Coins".
Who is John W. Dunsmore?
400
High tax on imports intended to protect domestic products from foreign competition rather than to yield revenue.
What is protective tariff?
400
Sets up the number of Supreme Court justices at six: one Chief Justice and 5 Associate justices.
What is Judiciary Act of 1789?
400
The governing body of a nation, state, or community.
What is a government?
400
A compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
What is tax?
500
Creator of the painting "The Washington Family".
Who is Edward Savage?
500
Low tax on imports intended to provide income for the government than protective income rather than protection of domestic products from foreign competition.
What is revenue tariff?
500
Power to approve, by a 2/3 vote. Makes half of Congress.
What is Senate?
500
A spirit distilled from malted grain. Also it was first to get an excise tax.
What is whiskey?
500
Britain taxed colonies. Colonies declared independence. They fought a war with the British.
What is the Revolutionary War?
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