Across
- 1. favoring one side of an issue
- 3. tax on imports to encourage people to buy products
- 6. powers, powers that were suggested but not directly stated in the Constitution
- 8. of Rights, 10 amendments; protect individual liberties; freedom of speech; press; or religion; provide fair and speedy trial for those accused of crimes
- 9. people who take risks with money in order to make larger profit
- 15. debt, total amount of money the nation’s government has borrowed
- 17. and Sedition Acts, series of laws passed during the presidency of John Adams that sought to restrict public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies
- 18. Pinckney, person who was sent by George Washington to settle differences with Spain
- 20. meetings held by Federalists and Republicans
- 22. Randolph, attorney general; part of the cabinet
- 24. Knox, secretary of war; part of the cabinet
- 25. Timbers, battle over Northwest territory that crushed Native Americans’ hopes of keeping the land
Down
- 2. the act of seizing for public use; recruitment by force
- 4. Freneau, published the National Gazette to turn opinion against the Federalists
- 5. Whiskey Rebellion, Hamilton’s taxes led to rebellion in western Pennsylvania; changed way government handled protesters; large mob of farmers attacked officers; forced Washington to convey important message
- 7. traditions established by George Washington as first president
- 8. paper notes promising to repay money in certain length of time
- 10. Jefferson, secretary of state; part of cabinet; had rivalry w/ Hamilton
- 11. rights, limiting federal government to those powers clearly assigned to by Constitution and reserving states all other powers not expressly forbidden to them
- 12. Jay, chief justice in Supreme Court, Judiciary Act of 1789
- 13. compromise, Hamilton worked out a compromise with Southern leaders; voted plan to pay off debts; in return he support locating permanent capital in South
- 14. Washington, U.S. First President
- 16. Bank, idea that Hamilton proposed; would be a place for federal government to deposit money raised from taxes & provide loans to government and to businesses
- 19. Genet, person who was sent from the French to the U.S. to recruit American volunteers to attack British ships
- 21. Hamilton, secretary of treasury; part of cabinet; had rivalry w/ Jefferson
- 23. Affair, three agents who demanded bribe and loan for France from the U.S.