Washington Leads a New Nation
An honest leader, a hero of the Revolution, and the first U.S. president
Who is George Washington
The national bank
What is Bank of the United States t
Private ships hired by a country to attack its enemies
Who are privateers
Groups that help elect people and shape politics
What are political parties
Federalist president first elected in 1796 who lost the 1800 presidential election
Who is John Adams
A group of delegates, or electors, who represent the people’s vote in choosing the president
What is the Electoral College
The money owed by the United States
What is national debt
A formal statement that the United States would not take sides with any European countries who were at war
What is Neutrality Proclamation
A political group that wanted a strong federal government and supported industry and trade
What is the Federalist Party
2 men chosen by Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore the lands of the Louisiana Purchase
Who are Lewis and Clark
George Washington’s wife and the First Lady
Who is Martha Washington
The certificates that represent money
What are Bonds
A rebellion of the French people against their king that led to the creation of a republican government
What is the French Revolution
A political group that wanted to limit the federal government’s powers
What is the Democratic-Republican Party
Shoshone who helped the expedition by naming plants and gathering edible fruits and vegetables for the group
Who is Sacagawea
An action or a decision that later serves as an example
What is a precedent
The first secretary of state who thought that repaying the full value of all bonds would cheat bondholders who had sold their bonds at low prices
Who is Thomas Jefferson
An uprising in which some farmers refused to pay the whiskey tax
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
A French demand for a $250,000 bribe and a $12 million loan in exchange for a treaty
What is the XYZ Affair
The purchase of Land from France for $15 million, which roughly doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase
An act that created three levels of federal courts and defined their powers and relationships to the state courts
What is the Judiciary act of 1789
The first secretary of the U.S. Treasury who wanted to pay the nation’s foreign debt immediately and gradually repay the full value of all bonds
Who is Alexander Hamilton
An agreement that gave the United States right of entry to American Indian lands
What is Treaty of Greenville
Laws meant to crush opposition to war that deprived people of the freedom to say and write what they believed
What is the Alien Sedition Act
A case that established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison