Founding Presidents Vocab

a prior event or decision that serves as an example for events

• impressment

• precedent

• nationalism

• proclamation of neutrality

a letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States

• XYZ Affair

• Alien and Sedition act

• Farewell Address

• Proclamation of neutrality

a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793, that declared the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain

• farewell address

• proclamation of neutrality

• judicial review

• two-term tradition

a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War

• cabinet

• nationalism

• precedent

• XYZ Affair

eliminated a Supreme Court seat and relieved justices of circuit court responsibilities

• Judiciary Act of 1801

• Attorney General

• Judicial review

• unconstitutional

the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.

• political parties

• Tecumseh

• Louisiana Purchase

• continental divide

laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the president to deport "aliens," and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime

• Alien and sedition acts

• Attorney General

• unconstitutional

• impressment

the act of forcing men into military or naval service

• Secretary of war

• precedent

• impressment

• nationalism

both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (the first and third presidents) decided not to serve a third term, establishing the two-term tradition. In the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, Franklin D.

• two-term tradition

• political parties

• farewell adress

• precedent

identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

• proclamation of neutrality

• unconstitutional

• cabinet

• nationalism