The Washington Administration
These were the first three executive departments.
What are State, Treasury, and War?
The Democratic-Republicans believed we had a moral obligation to support this country in their late 18th century war.
What is France?
This is a certificate issued by the government for a certain amount that the government promises to pay back with interest.
What is a bond?
As Vice President to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson was a member of this opposing party.
What is Democratic-Republican?
This means not favoring either side of a dispute.
What is neutral?
This is the term given to the period of the French Revolution in which aristocrats were executed by the thousands.
What is the Reign of Terror?
These were the leaders of the Miami and Shawnee Natives, who defeated the United States at the Battle of Wabash.
Who are Little Turtle and Blue Jacket?
What is a speculator?
He was a leading Democratic-Republican who penned the Virginia Resolution in protest of the Sedition Act of 1798.
Who is James Madison?
This is another word for someone from another country.
What is an alien?
These were Washington's two warnings to the American people during his farewell address.
What are to refrain from forming political parties and to stay out of European affairs?
Native Americans gave up significant land in what is now Ohio in this treaty with the United States.
What is the Treaty of Greenville of 1795?
Of the 3 parts to Hamilton's financial plan, this was blocked by southern members of Congress.
What is a high tariff?
The Alien Act of 1798 lengthened the time period an immigrant must live in the US before applying for citizenship to this many years.
What is 14?
This is an example to be followed by others in the future.
What is a precedent?
The federal court system was established by this act of Congress.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
This treaty forced the British out of the Northwest Territory and required them to pay the US back for cargo seized, by failed to guarantee free trade rights going forward.
What is Jay's Treaty?
In order to establish American credit, part of Hamilton's financial plan included this.
What is assuming states' debts?
The Sedition Act of 1798 made this illegal.
What is criticizing the government?
This is an organized political group.
What is a faction?
He was named first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is John Jay?
This general defeated Native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and secured much of the Northwest Territory for American settlement.
Who is Anthony Wayne?
Federalists believed that the power of Congress to establish a national bank was constitutional under this clause.
What is the necessary and proper clause (aka the "elastic" clause)?
This idea, presented by the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, suggests that states can ignore a federal law that they consider unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
This is the practice of seizing sailors on American ships and forcing them to serve in the British navy.
What is impressment?