Across
- 2. a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats
- 5. established a federal court system in which the states kept their own lands and courts, but the federal courts had the power to reverse state decisions
- 7. theory that said that the states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
- 8. selected as the nation's first vice president and second president in 1796
- 10. something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow
- 11. first president of the United States, supported Hamilton's economic changes
- 13. Washington's Secretary of War
- 14. a series of four laws enacted in 1798to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States
- 15. to legally overturn
Down
- 1. a tax on imported items designed to protect a country's industries from foreign competition
- 3. Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the Federalist Party
- 4. the act of seizing by force
- 6. a 1794 protest against the government's tax on whiskey, which was valuable to the livelihood of backcountry farmers
- 9. a group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisors
- 12. not siding with one country or the other