UNIT 3 CHAPTER 9 WORD CARDS 1 - 13

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Attorney general nations

top legal officer; today also the
head of the Department of
Justice

Cabinet group of executive

department heads that serve
as the presidents chief
advisors

To advise the government on

legal matters, Washington
picked Edmund Randolph as
attorney general.

The department head and the

attorney general made up
Washingtons cabinet.

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Inaugurate to formally
swear in or induct into office

Precedent an example that

becomes standard practice

Washington was inaugurated

as the first president of the
U.S. in the capital, New York
City in 1789.

As the nations first president,

Washington knew that his
every action would set a
precedent.

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Tariff tax on imported goods

Cede surrender, or give up

Tariffs serve two purposes:

raising money for the
government and encouraging
the growth of national
business.

Under the Treaty of Greenville,

Native Americans agreed to
cede much of present day
Ohio, as well as, numerous
ports and outposts in Illinois,
Michigan and Indiana to the
U.S. government.

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Neutral not siding with any

other country in a dispute

States Rights idea that the

states have certain rights that
the federal government cannot
overrule

In April 1793, Washington

declared that the U.S. would
remain neutral in the war
between Great Britain and
France.

This idea of states rights set

a precedence for future
conflicts in the nation between
the states and the national
government.

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Nullification idea that a

state could cancel federal law
within the state

Foreign policy relations

with the governments of other
nations

The Kentucky Resolution

insisted on the principle of
nullification against the Alien
and Sedition Acts.

Washingtons parting words on

foreign policy urged the
nations leaders to remain
neutral.

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Political Party group of

people that tries to promote its
ideas and influence

Aliens immigrants who are

not yet citizens

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government
These differences on foreign
and domestic policy led to the
nations first political parties.

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Sedition stirring up rebellion
against a government
Another act outlawed
sedition.

Other acts gave the president

the power to arrest suspicious
aliens or deport them in
wartime.