Chapter 8 Vocabulary

an outsider or someone from another country

• alien

• sedition

• tariff

• faction

activity designed to overthrow a government

• faction

• bond

• sedition

• inauguration

to deprive of legal force

• nullify

• faction

• precedent

• states' rights

the idea that the union binding “these United States” is an agreement between the states and that they therefore can overrule federal law

• faction

• precedent

• inauguration

• states' rights

seizing the sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy

• neutral

• sedition

• impressment

• precedent

not favoring either side in a dispute

• neutral

• sedition

• bond

• tariff

an organized political group

• precedent

• faction

• sedition

• inauguration

tax on imported goods

• bond

• sedition

• precedent

• tariff

ceremony in which the President takes the oath of office

• faction

• sedition

• precedent

• inauguration

contrary to what is permitted by the Constitution

• precedent

• faction

• unconstitutional

• bond