Foreign
Issues
Issues
This was the violent uprising against the French government that began in 1787.
What is the French Revolution?
This was the rebellion over high corn taxes by back country farmers that Washington put down.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
This is an example that becomes standard practice
What is a Precedent
These are the department heads that advise the president.
What is a Cabinet?
This is the violent seizure of ships, where the cargo is stolen, and the crew is forced into military service
What is impressment?
This was a series of four laws that Adams enacted which reduced the power of recent immigrants.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This is the protest against the government's tax on whiskey by back country farmers.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This means to be formally sworn into a political office.
What is to be Inaugurated?
This was the controversy in which French officials tried to bribe U.S. diplomats.
What was the XYZ Affair?
These are the two political parties that were created after Washington left office.
Who were the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
These were two members of Washington's Cabinet.
Who is Hamilton, Knox, Randolph, or Jefferson?
This is the political party that favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution, Hamilton and Adams were its most well-known leaders
Who were the Federalists?
This treaty resulted in Spain granting the U.S. shipping rights on the Mississippi River.
What was Pickney's Treaty?
This is the idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule.
What is nullification?
These are the two warnings Washington gave the American people during his Farewell Address.
What are to avoid political parties and foreign entanglements?
This is the political party that favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution, two of its most famous leaders were Jefferson and Madison.
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
This treaty ended British impressment of U.S. sailors, and also evacuated British forts that were supposed to be abandoned after the Treaty of Paris.
What was Jay's Treaty?
This was the battle where Native American forces surrendered to the American government, resulting in the U.S. getting much of the Northwest Territory?
What was the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
These are the financial policies Hamilton implemented.
What is creating a national bank, raising government revenues, and paying off war debts?
This is the treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded control of much of the Northwest Territory to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?