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4. proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
6. warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
8. Father of the constitution
9. someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government
12. fought between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy
13. a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War
14. three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
16. uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions
18. farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the new nation, and George Washington, with a looming crisis
19. someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided between a single central government and several regional one
20. taxes, dues, or fees placed on foreign goods

1. gives the Supreme Court and federal courts the authority to interpret the Constitution.
2. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
3. treaty that brought an official end to the Mexican-American War
5. the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 180
7. the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
10. issued a proclamation of neutrality in the wake of war breaking out between France and a group of European allies that included Great Britain.
11. the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise.
15. someone who valued freedom and equality
17. "Give me liberty or give me death"