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18 Cards in this Set
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alien |
someone who is not a citizen of a nation where they live |
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alien and sedition |
laws that made it crime to criticize the US gov't, its officials, or its actions. probably unconditional |
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Barbary pirates |
north African corsairs who captured american ships and enslaved their crews |
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democratic republicans |
early political party which opposed Hamilton's federalists and believed in a small central government. it was led by Jefferson and Madison. |
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embargo |
a refusal to trade with another country. the one of 1807 failed to British into line with our desires. |
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impressment |
the british practice of kidnapping american sailors to serve in the royal navy during its wars with france |
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jay treaty |
unpopular treaty with england which did little to settle our disputes with them, but did get british troops out of the northwest territory |
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john jay |
negotiated a treaty with britain in the 1790's and chief justice of the supreme court |
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loose interpretation |
federalist beleif that the government may pass neccesary laws that are not forbidden under the constitution. they base this belief on the 'neccesary and proper' clause of the constitution |
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non-intercourse act |
law that would have opened US trade to all nations except Britain and France. it failed |
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patrick henry |
anti-federalist leader in virginia who refused to attend the philadelphia convention |
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pinckney's treaty |
agreement with spain which opened the missisippi river to american trade |
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privateers |
privately owned warships used to supplement a nation's naval strength |
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quasi war |
naval conflict stemming from the US, refusal t honor the Franco-American Alliance of 1778 |
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ratification |
the legal vote to put a law, treaty or government into action |
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right of deposit |
the ability to use a foreign port without paying excessive taxes |
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sedition |
to work actively against or to criticize a government. a crime. |
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shays rebellion |
uprising in 1786 by former patriot soldiers against the state government, that was foreclosing on their farms because they couldn't pay their taxes. |
