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group of officials who head government departments and advise the President

• Cabinet
• two-party system
• excise tax
• Neutrality

a system of government in which two parties compete for power, and provide checks on each other through opposing view points

• two-party system
• excise tax
• Neutrality
• Jay's Treaty (1794)

a tax on the production or sale of a good

• excise tax
• Neutrality
• Jay's Treaty (1794)
• XYZ Affair (1797)

A position of not taking sides in a conflict

• Neutrality
• Jay's Treaty (1794)
• XYZ Affair (1797)
• Alien and Section Acts

French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

• XYZ Affair (1797)
• Alien and Section Acts
• Nullification
• Judiciary Act of 1801

a series of 4 laws designed to limit political power of immigrants

• Alien and Section Acts
• Nullification
• Judiciary Act of 1801
• Marbury v. Madison

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

• Nullification
• Judiciary Act of 1801
• Marbury v. Madison
• Louisiana Purchase

establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review (ability to review decisions of other courts and of other branches)

• Marbury v. Madison
• Louisiana Purchase
• Blockade
• Embargo

1803 expansion of territory from France, by Jefferson (3rd President), which doubled the size of the US.

• Louisiana Purchase
• Blockade
• Embargo
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)

an official ban on trade with a specific country

• Embargo
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• Judiciary Act of 1789
• Cabinet