Vocab Part 4 Flashcards
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3rd President of the United States. He favored limited central government. He was chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; approved of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and promoted ideals of republicanism. Sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore this territory.
Thomas Jefferson
1803, the U.S. spends $15 million to buy a large amount of land from the west of the Mississippi from France; doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand.
War Hawks
A Shawnee chief of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He took arms against American settlers moving into the Middle West, and supported the British in the War of 1812, in which he was killed.
Tecumseh
Americans v. Shawnee Indians. led by governor William Henry Harrison, the Americans defeated the Shawnee’s and Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory.
Battle of Tippecanoe
A public official of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835. His interpretations of the Constitution in cases such as Marbury versus Madison served to strengthen the power of the Court and the power of the federal government generally.
John Marshall
the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional.
Judicial Review
Supreme Court Case ruled by John Marshall; William Marbury sued for his commision as a judge because he had been promised a job by Adams but refused by Jefferson; ruling: Marshall claims that Supreme Court cannot rule on the case and ruled earlier Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional; established judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
when delegates from New England and states protested against war and proposed new laws and Constitutional Amendments to restore power in New England and threatened seccession if demands not met; these federalists were portrayed as disloyal afterwards because to much was happening in the nation for them to demand such changes; important to federalsist because it was one of the last acts of the party before it was no longer a party.
Hartford Convention
When Pasha of Tripoli declared war on America because Jefferson refused to pay tribute to protect American ships it was known as the Barbary War (1801-1805); there was a second Barbary war in 1815; this forced Jefferson rethink his idea of keeping a “mosquito fleet”
Barbary Pirates
British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service
Impressment
1807 - The American ship Chesapeake refused to allow the British on the Leopard to board to look for deserters. In response, the Leopard fired on the Chesapeake. As a result of the incident, the U.S. expelled all British ships from its waters until Britain issued an apology. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south. The act was seen as one of many precursors to war.
Embargo Act
4th President; Secretary of State; lead nation through War of 1812. Strict constructionist, 4th president, father of the Constitution.
James Madison
Law passed by Congress in 1809 reopening trade with all nations except France and Britain and authorizing the president to reopen trade with them if they lifted restrictions on American shipping.
Nonintercourse Act
opened trade with britain and france, said if either nation repealed its restrictions on neutral shipping the US would halt trade with the other, didn’t work.
Macon’s Bill No. 2
War between US and Britain; America declared war in 1812 because of trade restrictions, impressments, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, and humiliation of American honor.
War of 1812
United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
Oliver Hazard Perry
The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers.
Andrew Jackson
Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S.
Battle of New Orleans
(1814) Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border.
Treaty of Ghent
An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States, 1804-1806 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were commissioned by Jefferson to map and explore the Louisiana Purchase region. Beginning at St. Louis, Missouri, the expedition travelled up the Missouri River to the Great Divide, and then down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. It produced extensive maps of the area and recorded many scientific discoveries, greatly facilitating later settlement of the region and travel to the Pacific coast.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Francis Scott Key saw Fort McHenry hold out during the night against a British attack. He wrote the poem “Star Spangled Banner” about the experience of seeing the U.S. flag still flying above the fort in the morning, and the poem was later set to the tune of an old English bar song.
Francis Scott Key “The Star Spangled Banner”
A name for President Monroe’s two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. Since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party and no partisan conflicts.
Era of Good Feelings