Chapter 8 Vocabulary

this term refers to activity designed to overthrow the government

• Rebellion
• Sedition

• Civil Disobedience
• Insurrection

this term means a tax on foreign goods

• Sales tax
• Excise tax
• Import duty
• Tariff

this group emphasized agriculture, opposed the protective tariff, and favored a strict interpretation to the Constitution

• Federalist Party
• Whig Party
• Democratic-Republican Party
• Libertarian Party

this is the ability to not follow a federal law, it is the action taken to fulfill states’ rights

• Nullification
• Sovereignty
• Preemption
• Federalism

this person is an outsider or someone from another country

• alien

• immigrant
• native
• expat

this term refers to an action that is taken that sets an example for future generations to follow

• Tradition
• Precedent

• Heritage
• Influence

this term refers to the actions and rules that the United States participates in within its own borders and with its own people

• Domestic policy
• International relations
• Economic strategy
• Foreign policy

this term refers to something that goes against the constitution

• unconstitutional
• valid
• legal
• constitutional

this person was a member of Washington’s cabinet that favored small national government and would become the leader of the Republican Party

• Alexander Hamilton
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams

this term represents the ceremony in which an elected official is sworn into office

• coronation
• appointment
• inauguration
• nomination