Unit 6 Vocabulary

Author of Federalist Papers

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

Four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 that were said to protect the United States, but intended by the Federalists to crush opposition to war

• Federalist Party

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Judiciary Act of 1789

A party that wanted a strong federal government and supported industry and trade

• Republican Party

• National Debt

• Political Terms

• Federalist Party

A rebellion of French people against their king in 1789

• French Revolution

• Precedent

• National Debt

• American Revolution

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

The kidnapping of sailors, soldiers, and ships and forcing them to serve in a foreign military

• Impressment

• Precedent

• Neutrality

• Isolationism

A treaty that settled the disputes that had arisen between the United States and Great Britain in the early 1790's

• Judiciary Act

• Treaty of Paris

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Jay's Treaty

America's first Vice-President and second President.

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

The power of the courts to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional

• Judiciary Review

• Precedent

• National debt

• Federalist Party

Act passed by Congress that created three levels of the federal courts and defined their power and relationship to the state courts

• Alien and Sedition Act

• Federal Act

• Judiciary Act of 1789

• Coercive Act