A.p. U.s. History Chpt.7 Vocabs

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Thomas Jefferson

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Democratic-Republican who became the third president of the U.S.

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Louisiana Purchase

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Jefferson sent ministers to France to offer up to $10 million for both New Orleans and a strip of land extending from that port eastward to Florida,however Napoleon ministers offered to sell New Orleans and also the entire Louisiana Territory for $15 million.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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He was the French military and political leader.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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He led a rebellion against French rule on the Island of Santo Domingo.

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Strict interpretation, of constitution

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To review the constitution and determine what it means.

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Lewis and Clark expedition

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Jefferson persuaded Congress to fund a scientific expedition of the trans Mississippi west to be led by Captain Merriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark.

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John Marshall

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Appoint chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Adams and is also Jefferson's cousin.

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Judicial Review

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Interpretation of the constitution Supreme Court exercise the power to decide whether an act of Congress or of the president was or was not allowed by the constitution.

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Marbury v. Madison

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Jefferson ordered Secretary of state James Madison not to deliver the commissions to those Federalists Judges appointed in Adams's last days.William Marbury sued for his commissions.Marshall declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 to be unconstitutional.

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Aaron Burr

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Former vice president to Jefferson,who threatened to break up the union and who also is responsible for Hamilton's death.

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"Quids"

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"Old Republic"

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Barbary pirates

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Barbary states on the North African coast who was the first major challenge to Jefferson's foreign policy.

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Neutrality

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To avoid choosing sides.

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Impressment

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To force into.

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Chesapeake-Leopard affair

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In 1807, the British warship Leopard fired on the U.S. warship Chesapeake.

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Embargo Act (1809)

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Jefferson persuaded the Republican majority in Congress to pass the Embargo Act in 1807 which prohibited American merchant ships from sailing to any foreign port.

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James Madison

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Became the U.S fourth president.

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Nonintercourse Act (1809)

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provided that Americans could new trade with all nations except Britain and France.

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Macon's Bill No.2 (1810)

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It restored trade with France and Britain, but if either Britain or France formally agreed to respect U.S. neutral rights at sea then the U.S. would prohibit trade with that nation's foe.

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Tecumseh ; Prophet

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Shawnee twin brothers who attempted to unite all of the tribes east of the Mississippi River.

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William Henry Harrison

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He was the governor of the Indiana Territory, who destroyed the Shawnee headquarters and put an end to Tecumseh's efforts to form an Indian confederacy.

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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1807,Harrison destroyed the Shawnee headquarters and put an end to Tecumseh's efforts to form an Indian confederacy.

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War Hawks

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1810,young Republicans to Congress known as war-hawks because of their eagerness for war with Britain.

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Henry Clay

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Led the war-hawk Congressmen in arguing that war with Britain would be the only way to defined American honor,gain Canada, and destroy Native American resistance on the frontier.(Kentucky).

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John C. Calhoun

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Led the war-hawk Congressmen in arguing that war with Britain would be the only way to defined American honor,gain Canada, and destroy Native American resistance on the frontier.(South Carolina).

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War of 1812

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The British delays in meeting U.S. demands over neutral rights and with political pressure from the war-hawk Congress persuaded Madison to seek a declaration of war against British.

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"Old Ironides"

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Nickname for the U.S.warship Constitution.

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Battle of Lake Erie

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The most important naval battle of the war fought in 1813.

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Oliver Hazard Perry

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Was a 28-year old American naval captain who won the Battle of Lake Erie and declared "we have met the enemy and they are ours".

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Thomas Macdonough

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In 1814 he was an American naval captain who defeated a British fleet on Lake Champlain.

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Battle of the Thames

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General William Henry Harrison's military victory took place in which Tecumseh was killed.

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Battle of Lake Champlain

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A British fleet was defeated in 1814 by naval captain Thomas Macdonough and force to retreat.

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Francis Scott Key, "The Star-Spangled Banner"

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In 1814 the British attempted to take Baltimore, but fort McHenry held out.This is where Francis Key said these words " The Star-Spangled Banner".

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Andrew Jackson

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Commanded the U.S. troops in the South, in which Jackson's army ended the power of an important British ally, the Creek Nation, in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

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Creek Nation

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Native American tribes who allied with the British.

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Battle of New Orleans

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Fought on January 5,1815, two weeks after a treaty ending the war had been signed in Ghent, Belgium.

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Treaty of Ghent (1814)

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American peace commissioners traveled to Ghent,Belgium to discuss terms of peace with British diplomats to end the war.

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Hartford Convention (1814)

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A special convention held in Connecticut to discuss New England seceding from the union.