Washington & Government
These first ten amendments were added to protect individual liberties and ease fears about a powerful national government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Hamilton supported placing these on imported goods to raise revenue and encourage American manufacturing.
What are tariffs?
Washington issued this declaration to keep the United States out of the war between Britain and France.
What is the Proclamation of Neutrality?
Adams signed these controversial laws that increased federal power over immigrants and government critics.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Jefferson portrayed himself as a champion of this group rather than wealthy political elites.
Who is the common man?
This 1789 law established the federal court system.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
Hamilton proposed creating this institution to hold government money and strengthen the nation's financial system.
What is the National Bank?
This French diplomat tried to recruit Americans to support France despite Washington's policy of neutrality.
Who is Citizen Edmond Genêt?
This term means a state declares a federal law invalid or unconstitutional within that state.
What is nullification?
Jefferson's administration purchased this enormous territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Washington established this group of department heads to advise the president.
What is the Cabinet?
This tax on products such as distilled whiskey angered many western farmers.
What is an excise tax?
American diplomats were asked for bribes by French agents known by these three letters.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Virginia and Kentucky responded to the Alien and Sedition Acts with these documents.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
These two explorers led the famous expedition through the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Washington established this presidential tradition that continued until Franklin Roosevelt.
What is the two-term tradition?
Angry farmers in western Pennsylvania resisted the whiskey tax in this 1790s uprising.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Washington believed the young United States should avoid these long-term commitments to other nations.
What are permanent foreign alliances?
This First Lady urged her husband to “remember the ladies” and is associated with early advocacy for women's rights.
Who is Abigail Adams?
Jefferson questioned whether the Constitution actually gave the president this power when he made the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the power to purchase/acquire new territory?
In his Farewell Address, Washington warned Americans about these two major dangers to the young nation.
What are political parties/factions and permanent foreign alliances or entanglements?
Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated this important principle about the new federal government.
What is the federal government's power to enforce its laws?
The Citizen Genêt Affair tested Washington's determination to maintain this foreign-policy position.
What is American neutrality?
The XYZ Affair increased tensions between the United States and this European country during Adams's presidency.
What is France?
Jefferson's 1807 policy attempted to pressure Britain and France by stopping American trade but badly hurt the U.S. economy.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?