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Chapter 10 key terms
key terms for Chapter 10
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10/15/2015

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John Adams
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George Washington's vice president; succeeded Washington as president
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Alexander Hamilton
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first Secretary of Treasury; proposed Bank of the United States;
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Talleyrand
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crafty French foreign minister who refused to meet with American envoys in Paris in 1797 (XYZ Affair)
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loose construction
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the belief that what the Constitution did not forbid it permitted; proposed by Hamilton
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implied powers
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powers not specifically mentioned in the Constitution; part of loose construction
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compact theory
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a theory popular among English political philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; as applied to America by Jeffersonians
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Bank of the United States
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proposed by Hamilton and modeled after the Bank of England; powerful private institution of which the government
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French Revolution
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At the beginning it was surprising peaceful and imposed constitutional shackles on Louis XVI, Americans considered it an extension of their revolution but turned bad
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Neutrality Proclamation
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issued by Washington in 1793, shortly after the outbreak of war between Britain and France; proclaimed the government's official neutrality and warned American citizens to be impartial toward both armed camps;
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Ninth Amendment
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written by Madison as an Amendment to the Constitution, it declares that specifying certain rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"
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Pinckney's Treaty
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treaty with Spain in which Spain granted the Americans free navigation of the Mississippi and the large disputed territory north of Florida (Spain feared American-British alliance because of Jay's Treaty)
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Farewell Address Washington
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strongly advised the avoidance of permanent alliances (like the Franco-American Treaty of 1778); his resignation contributed to establishing a two-term tradition for American president
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Jeffersonian Republicans
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believed in rule by the informed masses, friendliness toward extension of democracy, weak central government to preserve states' rights
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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created by the first Congress to create effective federal courts; organized the Supreme Court, with a chief justice and five associates, as well as federal district and circuit courts, and established the office of attorney general
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Thomas Jefferson
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first Secretary of State; proposed strict construction; lost election to succeed Washington, so he became John Adams's vice president; leader of Democratic-Republicans;
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John Jay
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first chief justice of the United States; created Jay's Treaty; Federalist, believed in aristocracy
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