Unit 6: Early Republic 2

pay off all war debts, raise government revenues, create a national bank

• Great Compromise

• Hamilton's Financial Plan

• Jefferson's Financial Plan

• Impressment

forcing people into service, as in the navy

• impressment

• precedent

• XYZ Affair

• nullify

incident in 1797 when French officials demanded a bribe from US diplomats

• impressment

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• XYZ Affair

• nullify

gave president authority to deport individuals whom he considered a threat to the US

• Alien Act

• Sedition Act

• XYZ Affair

• nullify

made it a crime to write, print, utter, or publish criticism of the president

• Alien Act

• Sedition Act

• XYZ Affair

• nullify

argued that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional and to be "void and of no force"

• nullify

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

• Marbury v Madison

• XYZ Affair

1803 purchase of the territory from France that doubled the size of the US

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

• Adam Onis Treaty

• Louisiana Purchase

• XYZ Affair

forbade American trading ships from leaving the US, meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral US vessels

• National Bank

• Massachusetts Port Act

• Embargo Act of 1807

• Importation Act

an official ban on trade activity with a particular country

• nullify

• precedent

• alien

• embargo

a person living in a country who is not a citizen of that country

• nullify

• precedent

• alien

• embargo