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Judiciary Act
Article III of the Constitution( The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court) established a Supreme Court -
Bank of the United States
chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress -
Whiskey Rebelion
a tax protest, farmers who sold their grain in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
political statements; the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Election of 1800
exposed one of the flaws in the original constitution (members of the electoral college could only vote for president) -
Marbury v. Madison
establishes judicial review -
War of 1812
war between Great Britain and the United States
GB burned the white house -
Treaty of Ghent
signed to end the War of 1812 -
Missouri Compromise
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Mexican American War
Mexican government refused to recognize the Rio Grande as a border -
Mexican Cession
The southwestern part of the United States that used to be mexico