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was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.

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s a court order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task.

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also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.

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was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.

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signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.

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signed on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.

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were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

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was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.

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a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

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was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing.

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is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States

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is an uprising in France against the monarchy from 1789 to 1799 which resulted in the establishment of France as a republic.

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was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

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an advocate or supporter of federalism.

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A law passed by the British government in 1765 that required the payment of a tax to Britain on a great variety of papers and documents, including newspapers, that were produced in the American colonies.

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was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

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An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.

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undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

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s a 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution.

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is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

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was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

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a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after ...

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known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.

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a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.

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was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.

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the federal principle or system of government.

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imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal.

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a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility.

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the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.

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The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787; all states were invited to send delegates. The convention, meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

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good sense and sound judgment in practical matters

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an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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A law passed in 1787 to regulate the settlement of the Northwest Territory, which eventually was divided into several states of the Middle West.

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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.

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were a series of commercial restrictions adopted by American colonists to protest British revenue policies prior to the American Revolution.

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in the period preceding and during the American Revolution) a member of a class of American militiamen who volunteered to be ready for service at a minute's notice.

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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

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a person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.

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The purchase by the United States from France of the huge Louisiana Territory in 1803.

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The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land

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were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

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a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor.

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refers to the act of taking men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice.

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(in the US) a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government

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a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea

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a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.

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the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship

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(of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers

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the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.

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a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Anti federal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government.