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Bank of the United States

The third part of Hamilton’s financial program that was to serve as the nation’s main financial agent, as a private corporation that would hold public funds, issue banknotes that would serve as currency, and make loans to the government when necessary.

Impressment

The hated practice of the British kidnapping sailors to serve in their navy.

Jay’s Treaty

A greatly controversial agreement negotiated in 1794 in which the British abandoned outposts on the western frontier in return for the United States guaranteeing favored treatment to British imported goods. In effect, this treaty canceled the American-French alliance and recognized British economic and naval supremacy as unavoidable facts of life.

Federalists

Supporters of the Washington administration who favored Hamilton’s economic program and close ties with Britain.

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794

A rebellion that broke out when Backcountry farmers sought to block collection of the new tax on distilled spirits.

Republicans

Followers of Madison and Jefferson who were sympathetic to France and had faith in democratic self-government.

Democratic-Republican societies

Groups made by supporters of the French Revolution and critics of the Washington administration in 1793 and 1794, who typically believed that all men are naturally free, and possess equal rights, and that all legitimate government originates in the voluntary social compact of the people. They disappeared by the end of 1795

Judith Sargent Murray

One of the era’s most accomplished American women who wrote essays for the Massachusetts Magazine under the pen name “The Gleaner.” In her essay “On the Equality of the Sexes,” written in 1779 and published in 1790, Murray insisted that women had as much right as men to exercise all their talents and should be allowed equal educational opportunities to enable them to do so.