Transcript Unit I Flashcards

Unit IV Flashcards
Chapters 7 and 8
#1
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Alien Act
Act passed by Congress in 1798 that
authorized the President to imprison or
deport suspected aliens during wartime.
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Annapolis Convention
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Conference of state delegates at
Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in
September 1786 for a convention to meet
at Philadelphia to consider fundamental
changes.
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Anti-Federalists
Opponents of the Constitution in the
debate over its ratification.
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Articles of the Confederation
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Written document setting up the loose
confederation of states that comprised the
first national government of the United
States.
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Bill for Establishing
Religious Freedom
A bill authored by Thomas Jefferson
establishing religious freedom in Virginia.
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Bill of Rights
A written summary of inalienable rights
and liberties.
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Constitution
The written document providing for a
new central government of the United
States.
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Constitutional Convention
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Convention of delegates from the colonies
that first met to organize resistance to the
Intolerable Acts.
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Continental Army
The regular or professional army
authorized by the Second Continental
Congress and commanded by General
George Washington during the
Revolutionary War.
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Federalists
Supporters of the Constitution who
favored its ratification.
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Great Compromise
Plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional
Convention for creating a national bicameral
legislature in which all states would be equally
represented in the Senate and proportionally
represented in the House.
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Intercourse Act
Passed in 1790, this law regulated trade
and intercourse with the Indian tribes and
declared public treaties between the U.S.
and Indian nations the only means of
obtaining Indian lands.
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Jay’s Treaty
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Treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in
which the United States made major
concessions to avert a war over the British
seizure of American ships.
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Judicial review
A power implied in the Constitution that
gives federal courts the right to review
and determine the constitutionality of
acts passed by Congress and state
legislatures.
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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Act of Congress that implemented the
judiciary clause of the Constitution by
establishing the Supreme Court and a
system of lower federal courts.
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Act passed by Congress under the Articles
of Confederation that created the grid
system of surveys by which all subsequent
public land was made available for sale.
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Loyalists
British colonists who opposed
independence from Britain.
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New Jersey Plan
Proposal of the New Jersey delegation for
a strengthened national government in
which all states would have an equal
representation in a unicameral
legislature.
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Legislation that prohibited slavery in the
Northwest Territories and provided the
model for the incorporation of future
territories into the union as co-equal
states.
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Patriots
British colonists who favored
independence from Britain.
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Quasi-War
Undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800
between the United States and France.
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Sedition Act
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An act passed by Congress in 1798 that
provided fines for anyone convicted
writing, publishing, or speaking out
against the government or its officers.
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States’ rights
Favoring the rights of individual states
over rights claimed by the national
government.
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Suffrage
The right to vote in a political election.
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Tories
A derisive term applied to Loyalists in
America who supported the king and
Parliament just before and during the
American Revolution.
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Treaty of Greenville
Treaty of 1795 in which Native Americans
in the Old Northwest were forced to cede
most of the present state of Ohio to the
United States.
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Virginia Plan
Proposal calling for a national legislature
in which the states would be represented
according to population.
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Whiskey Rebellion
Armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in
western Pennsylvania who attempted to
prevent the collection of the excise tax on
whiskey.
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XYZ Affair
Diplomatic incidents in 1798 in which
Americans were outraged by the demand
of the French for a bribe as a condition for
negotiating with American diplomats.
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Reference
Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out of
many: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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