Launching a New Nation Key Terms and People

The first president of the United States

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• John Jay

Outsider; someone from another country

• alien

• speculator

• tariff

• faction

• precedent

Organized political group

• campaign

• faction

• sedition

• bond

• impressment

The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; was sent to Britain by Washington in order to repair problems that were arising from British impressment

• Thomas Jefferson

• Anthony Wayne

• John Jay

• Alexander Hamilton

• Henry Knox

Certificate issued by a government for a certain amount of money that the government promises to pay back with interest

• speculator

• tariff

• bond

• precedent

• sedition

Stirring up of rebellion against a government

• alien

• unconstitutional

• impressment

• sedition

• inauguration

Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury; warned that the “spirit of faction” might work like a spark to bring mob rule and chaos

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Jay

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Edmund Randolph

To cancel a federal law; to deprive of legal force

• nullify

• neutral

• impressment

• sedition

• states' rights

Example to be followed by others in the future

• faction

• bond

• inauguration

• nullify

• precedent

Revolutionary War hero who led American forces against the Native Americans and won a major victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers

• John Wayne

• Anthony Wayne

• James Madison

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton