Social Studies
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- republic
- A goverment in which the power to govern comes from the people,not a king
- impressment
- Kidnapping Amer. Sailors at seaand forcing them to work on British ships
- Daniel Shays/ Shays Rebellion
- protested taxes in Western Mass. Rebellion pointed out how powerless the federal gov't was
- Articles of confederation
- the document (1777) that governed the U.S. during the revolution and after (1787)
- Spain
- Spain controlled New Orleans on the Mississippi. amer. farmers need this part to ship from goods
- amend
- change
- Northwest Ordiance
- law passed by congress ( Articles of Confed.) created Ohio, Indiana,ILLINOIS,Michigan,Wisconsin,Minnesota. No slavery
- Cabinet
- A group of advisors to the president
- HT Veron
- G Washington's platation (home) in VA on the Potomac River
- Whiskey Rebellion
- In western PA farmers thoght task was unfair because corn whiskey (taxed) was the only product they could make without it spoiling. Gov't sent 13,000 troops to score the angry farmer gov't win
- John Adams
- 2nd president wa a Federalist from Boston. Had been VP for George Washington kept the new U.S. out of war.(bet.eng vs France)
- Bill of Rights
- The first ten amendments to the Consitution
- rafity
- to formally approve
- Political party
- A group of people who hold certain beliefs about how the goverment should be run
- Citizen Genet
- a Frenchman who tried to get amer. to favor the french in their war G.B.
- Representative Democracy
- Gov't where the people elect representives to the federal gov't
- George Washington
- Fisrt President of U.S.A. chose for this position by delagates to the Const. Convention
- Consitution
- A set of laws governing a state or nation
- Thomas Jefferson
- Sec'y of State ''small'' states should have the most power. We should have small family farms with only some manufacturing leader of democratic Rebublic Party
- The Federalist Papers
- Written by A.Hamilton J.Jay, and J, Madison to convince people how good the new const. was
- Alexander Hamilton
- Sec'y of treasury thought gov't should be "big'' Large cities with manufacturing Leader of Federalist Party
- French Revolution
- Started in 1789.Amer. unhappy because it became so violent. We were upset over such lawlessness but happy the french now had a demorcracy. Reign of Terror is the very violet time
- Bills of Rights
- added to states const. that told the right of state citizens
- Northwest Territory
- Located North of the Ohio River, East of the Mississippi River, West of Pennsylvania, South of Canada, Great Lakes
- Constutional Convention
- took place in Philadelphia,PA in the summer of 1787. Origanally wanted to change the A and C. Then
- neautral
- not talking sides