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21 Cards in this Set
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John Marshall |
John Adams's Secretary of State asked to serve as Chief Justice of the US first one to exercise judicial review (Supreme Court rules over other branches) |
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Marbury vs. Madison |
Marbury's case in which Justice Marshall had for the first time exercised the right of the Supreme Court to review and rule on acts of the other branches of government |
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judicial review |
the right of the Supreme Court to review and rule on acts of the other branches of government |
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Louisiana Purchase |
the expansion of the US that doubled the size organized by Thomas Jefferson, purchased from France |
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Napoleon Bonaparte |
the leader of France who had plans for empires in Europe and the Americas |
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Toussaint L'Overture |
former slave and leader of a revolt that took place in the Dominican Republic and Haiti against French rule |
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Lewis and Clark |
two men paid to explore the lands west of the Mississippi River Jefferson sent them reached the Rocky Mountains |
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Barbary pirates |
Mediterranean sailors that demanded tributes from European governments and terrorized Mediterranean Sea |
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Stephen Decatur |
25 year old US Navy captain that burned and captured the Philadelphia (US ship stolen by the Barbary pirates) to keep them from using it |
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Neutral Rights |
the right to sail seas and not take sides in a war |
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Impressment |
catering US sailors to fight for the British Navy |
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Embargo Act |
act passed in 1807 that prohibited trade with Great Britain |
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Chesapeake |
American sailing vessel intercepted by the British US Captain refused to surrender British opened fire, killing 3 and injuring 18, sank the ship led to the Embargo Act |
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Nonintercourse Act |
act passed in 1809 that prohibited trade only with Britain and France and their colonial possessions
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Tecumseh |
powerful Shawnee chief who built a confederacy among Native American nations in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan foe of the Americans, sided with Britain |
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The Prophet |
Tecumseh's brother who urged Native Americans everywhere to return to the customs of their ancestors |
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William Henry Harrison |
US General of the Battle of Tippecanoe who won the battle and killed Tecumseh |
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War Hawk |
a group of young Republicans elected to Congress that pressured the president to declare war on Britain
Henry Clay and John Calhoun |
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War of 1812 |
War between the US and Britain and their Native American allies, lasted nearly 3 years |
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Privateer |
armed private ships used in the War of 1812
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Francis Scott Key |
young attorney that wrote national anthem |
