1. Chapters 7 and 8 Unit IV Flashcards

2. Act passed by Congress in 1798 that authorized the President to imprison or deport suspected aliens during wartime. Alien Act #1 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

3. Conference of state delegates at Annapolis, Maryland, that issued a call in September 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes. Annapolis Convention #2 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

4. Opponents of the Constitution in the debate over its ratification. Anti-Federalists #3 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

5. Written document setting up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the United States. Articles of the Confederation #4 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

6. A bill authored by Thomas Jefferson establishing religious freedom in Virginia. Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom #5 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

7. A written summary of inalienable rights and liberties. Bill of Rights #6 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

8. The written document providing for a new central government of the United States. Constitution #7 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

9. Convention of delegates from the colonies that first met to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts. Constitutional Convention #8 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

10. The regular or professional army authorized by the Second Continental Congress and commanded by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Continental Army #9 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

11. Supporters of the Constitution who favored its ratification. Federalists #10 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

12. Plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House. Great Compromise #11 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

13. Passed in 1790, this law regulated trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and declared public treaties between the U.S. and Indian nations the only means of obtaining Indian lands. Intercourse Act #12 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

14. Treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships. Jay’s Treaty #13 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

15. A power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress and state legislatures. Judicial review #14 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

16. Act of Congress that implemented the judiciary clause of the Constitution by establishing the Supreme Court and a system of lower federal courts. Judiciary Act of 1789 #15 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

17. Act passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation that created the grid system of surveys by which all subsequent public land was made available for sale. Land Ordinance of 1785 #16 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

18. British colonists who opposed independence from Britain. Loyalists #17 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

19. Proposal of the New Jersey delegation for a strengthened national government in which all states would have an equal representation in a unicameral legislature. New Jersey Plan #18 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

20. Legislation that prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as co-equal states. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 #19 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

21. British colonists who favored independence from Britain. Patriots #20 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

22. Undeclared naval war of 1797 to 1800 between the United States and France. Quasi-War #21 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

23. An act passed by Congress in 1798 that provided fines for anyone convicted writing, publishing, or speaking out against the government or its officers. Sedition Act #22 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

24. Favoring the rights of individual states over rights claimed by the national government. States’ rights #23 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

25. The right to vote in a political election. Suffrage #24 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

26. A derisive term applied to Loyalists in America who supported the king and Parliament just before and during the American Revolution. Tories #25 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

27. Treaty of 1795 in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the United States. Treaty of Greenville #26 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

28. Proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population. Virginia Plan #27 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

29. Armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in western Pennsylvania who attempted to prevent the collection of the excise tax on whiskey. Whiskey Rebellion #28 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

30. Diplomatic incidents in 1798 in which Americans were outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats. XYZ Affair #29 SHOWNEXT MARK FOR REVIEW Review

31. Reference Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out of many: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. REVIEWEND