Chapters 7 and 8

Unit IV Flashcards

Act passed by Congress in 1798 that authorized the President to imprison

or deport suspected aliens during wartime.

Alien Act

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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.

Annapolis Convention

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Opponents of the Constitution in the debate over its ratification.

Anti-Federalists

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Written document setting up the loose confederation of states that

comprised the first national government of the United States.

Articles of the Confederation

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A bill authored by Thomas Jefferson establishing religious freedom in

Virginia.

Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

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A written summary of inalienable rights and liberties.

Bill of Rights

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The written document providing for a new central government of the

United States.

Constitution

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Convention of delegates from the colonies that first met to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts.

Constitutional Convention

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The regular or professional army authorized by the Second Continental Congress and

commanded by General George Washington during the Revolutionary

War.

Continental Army

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Supporters of the Constitution who favored its ratification.

Federalists

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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.

Great Compromise

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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.

Intercourse Act

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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.

Jay’s Treaty#14

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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.

Judicial review

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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.

Judiciary Act of 1789

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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.

Land Ordinance of 1785

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British colonists who opposed independence from Britain.

Loyalists

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Proposal of the New Jersey delegation for a strengthened

national government in which all states would have an equal

representation in a unicameral legislature.

New Jersey Plan

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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.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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British colonists who favored independence from Britain.

Patriots

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Undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800 between the United States

and France.

Quasi-War

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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.

Sedition Act#23

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Favoring the rights of individual states over rights claimed by the

national government.

States’ rights

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The right to vote in a political election.

Suffrage

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A derisive term applied to Loyalists in America who supported the king

and Parliament just before and during the American Revolution.

Tories

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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.

Treaty of Greenville

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Proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states

would be represented according to population.

Virginia Plan

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Armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in western Pennsylvania who

attempted to prevent the collection of the excise tax on whiskey.

Whiskey Rebellion

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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.

XYZ Affair

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Reference

Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out ofmany: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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