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Alien and Sedition Acts definition. A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies.

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Alien and Sedition Acts definition. A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies.

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In Marbury v. Madison (1803) the Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution. William Marbury had been appointed a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia in the final hours of the Adams administration.

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

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Adams, John definition. A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers.

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The XYZ Affair 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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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the WhiskeyInsurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington

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Washington, George definition. The first president of the United States, and the commanding general of the victorious American army in the Revolutionary War

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The Federalist Party was the first American political party. It existed from the early 1790s to 1816; its remnants lasted into the 1820s. ... Federalist policies called for a national bank, tariffs, and good relations with Great Britain as expressed in the Jay Treaty negotiated in 1794.