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| meeting of delegates from Virgina and Maryland at Washington's home at Mt. Vernon in March 1785. It preceded the Annapolis Convention and draft of the Constitution |
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| meeting at Annapolis of 12 delegates from 5 states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Deleware, and Virgina)that called for a constitutional convention. |
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| guarantees that no part of the government becomes too powerful |
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| plan traced the broad outlines of what would become the US Constitition: a national government consisting of three brances with checks and balances to prevent the abuse of power |
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| called for 2 houses of Congress, both elected with population. Smaller states opposed giving all of the power to the larger states. This plan called for equal representation |
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| was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution |
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| was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives |
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| was the first of three great political compromisesa made in the United States by the Northern and Southern states, occurring every thirty years, in an attempt to keep the Union together and prevent civil war. |
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| is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office |
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| was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816 |
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| are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution |
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| ten amendments to the United States Constitution |
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| tax on imports and outports; indirect tax |
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| Proclamation of Neutrality |
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| was an announcement issued by Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain |
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| was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war |
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| established friendship between the United States and Spain. It also defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. |
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| was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory |
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| Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to pay off the national debt. |
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| land look more like squares |
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| Democratic Republican Party |
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| was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
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| Washington's Farewell Address |
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| was written to "The People of the United States"[1] near the end of his second term as President of the United States and before his retirement |
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| was a 1798 diplomatic episode during the administration of John Adams that Americans interpreted as an insult from France. |
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| lawsdesigned to control the activities of foreigners in the United States during a time of war. |
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| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
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| were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional |
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| Proved to others that the United States succeeded in being independent |
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