Vocabulary 1

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  1. 1. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States
  2. 3. A Plan for a representative house which tried to protect the smaller states by giving each state a single representative in the house.
  3. 6. A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787, brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
  4. 8. Supporting stronger local governments and little to no international trade and industry.
  5. 9. A document that was written by Thomas Jefferson, sent to King George III, declaring independence from the British monarchy.
  6. 10. An international Affair in which a confrontation between the United States and Republican France led to an undeclared war between the two countries.
  7. 13. The branch of government that carries out the laws.
  8. 16. An Indian tribal leader who filled in the gap in leaders after other chiefs and generals had died or retired. He led attacks on US settlers.
  9. 21. The part of the government which interprets the laws.
  10. 23. Father of the constitution and 4th president of the US.
  11. 25. The explorers listed with finding a waterway to the pacific ocean in the Louisiana purchase.
  12. 26. An agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. Determining that there would be two houses: the house of representatives and the senate. One based on population and one based on equal representation.
  13. 27. A type of governmental system where representatives, voted by the people, would make decisions on behalf of their voters.
  14. 28. An ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
  15. 29. A war fought by the United States and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its own indigenous allies in British North America,
  16. 30. The first ‘constitution’ of the United States, It did not give the federal government the power to raise an army or tax which made the US vulnerable.
  17. 31. An ordinance that laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold.
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  1. 2. Unconstitutional acts which tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government.
  2. 4. A political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape.
  3. 5. A purchase of 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
  4. 7. The first president of the United States, universally elected without competition.
  5. 11. For a strong central government and international industry.
  6. 12. A population counting compromise which listed a slave as 3/5ths of a person.
  7. 14. Southerner Anti-federalist who wrote the constitution.
  8. 15. A mode of government which combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system,
  9. 17. A machine which was able to automatically remove the seeds from cotton, making the process much more efficient.
  10. 18. The Branch that makes the laws.
  11. 19. A system that is supposed to balance the powers of each branch of the United States government.
  12. 20. A violet tax protest which was against the newly enacted whiskey tax.
  13. 22. The first ten amendments of the Constitution, meant to protect the rights of the people.
  14. 24. A northerner Federalist who believed that an elite and educated government was needed, and that the US should be an international industrial center.