Chs Apush Chapter 11

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Chesapeake Affair

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Conflict Between Britain and the United States that precipitated the 1807 embargo. The conflict developed when a British ship, in search of deserters, fired on the American Chesapeake off the coast of Virginia.

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Revolution of 1800

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Electoral victory of Democratic Republicans over the Federalists, who lost their Congressional majority and the presidency. The peaceful transfer of power btween rival parties solidified faith in the American's political system.

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Judiciary Act of 1801

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Pased by the departing Federalist Congress, it created 16 new federal judgeships ensuring a Federalist hold on the judciary.

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Patronage

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A system prevalent during the Gilded Age, in which political parties granted jobs and favors to party regulars who delivered votes on election day. Patronage was both an essential wellspring of support for both parties and a source of conflicr within the Republican party.

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Midnight Judges

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Federal justices appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency. Their positions were revoked when the newly elected Republican Congress repealed the Judiciary Act.

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Marbury vs, Madison

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Supreme Court that established the principle of "judicial renew" the idea that the supreme court had the final authority to determine constitutionality

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Tripolitan War

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Four year conflict between the American NAvy and the North Africannation over piracy in the Mediterranean. Jefferson, a staunch noniterventionalist, reluctantly deployed American forces, eventually securing a peace treaty w/ Tripoli.

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Hatian Revolution

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War incited by slave uprising in Frnch controlled Saint Dominique, resulted in the creation of the first independent black republic in the Americas.

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Louisiana Purchase

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Acquisition of the Lpuisiana territory from France. It more than doubles the teritory of the United States, opening vast tracts for settlement.

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Corps of Discovery

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Team od adventurers, led by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, sent by Thomas JEfferson to explore the new Louisiana Territory and find a water route to the pacific. Louis and Clack brought detailed accounts of the West's flora, fauna and native populations, and their voyage demonstrated the viability of the overland travel to the West.

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Orders and Council

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Edicts issued by the British Crown closing the French owned European ports to the foreign shipping. The French responded by ordering the siezure of all vessels entering British ports, thereby cutting off American merchants from trade with both parties.

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Impressment

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Act of drafting an individual into the military serice, employed by the British navy against American seamen in the times of war agaisnt France, 1793-1815. It was a contnual source od conflict between Britian and the United States in the early national period.

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Embargo Act

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Enacted in the response to Britain and French mistreatment of the American merchants, the Act banned the Export of all goods from the United States to any foreign port. The embarog places great strains on the American economy while only marginally affecting it's European targets. and was therefore repealed in 1809

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Non-Intercourse Act

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Passed alongside the repeal of the Embargo Act, it reopened trade with all but Britian and France . The act coninued Jefferon's policy of economic coercion, still with little effect

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Macon's Bill No. 2

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Aimed at resuming peacful trade with Britain and France, the act stipulated that if either Britain or France repealed it's trade restrictions, the United States would reinstate the embargo against the nonrepealing nation. When Napolean Offered to life hsi restrictions on British ports, the U. S. was forced to declare and embargo on Britain, thereby psuhing the two nations closer toward war.

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War Hawks

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Decocratic- Republican Congressmen who pressed James Madison to declare war on Britain. Largely drawn from the South and West, they resented British constraints on American trade and accused the British of supporting Indian attacks against American settlement on the frontier

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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Resulted in the defeat of the Shawnee chief Tenskwata, "the Prophet" at the hands of Wiliam Harrison in the Indiana wilderness. After the battle, the Prophets brother, Tecumseh, forged an allian

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Thomas Jefferson

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Ameican president from 1801-1809. He was an author of the declaration of Independence and was a owner of slaves.

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Albert Gallatin

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Member if the Democratic-Repulbican party and in office from 1801-1814. He served as the fourth Secretary of the Treasury under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

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John Marshall

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Was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was in office from 1801-1835. He started in office under Thomas Jefferson. Know for making the Supreme Court as a branch of government.

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Samuel Chase

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Was the only Supreme Court Justice to ever be impeached. Over his term in office his view changed over time, which eventually led to his impeachment.

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Napolean Bonaparte

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A French military leader who rose to power toward sthe end of the French Revolution. He was the one who sold the Louisana Territory to the United States.

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Robert R. Livingston

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Was an American Lawyer and politition that was part of the the Foundering Fathers of the United States. He was known as the "Chancellor" and he helped nagotion the Louisana Purchase

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Toussaint Louverture

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Known as "Black Napolean" He helped lead the Hatian Revolution, which helped slaves become a free-independent state in Haiti

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Meriwether Lewis

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Was an American Explorer who was most know for his adventure into the Louisiana Territory w/ William Clark. His mission was to find a water route all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

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William Clark

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An American Army Officer who's objective was to survey the newly bought Louisiana Teritory. Accompanied by Meriwether Lewis on his journey.

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Sacagawea

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A Lemhi Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition. She acted as a interpreter and guide. She helped with the explortion of the new land.

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Aaron Burr

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Known mostly for the great duel between himself and Alexander Hamilton. He was never tried on trial for the murder of Hamilton. Burr was never convicted but it ended his political career.

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The Prophet

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A political leader and brother of Tecumseh. He was part of the Shawnee tribe. He was agaisnt the spread of the white man, but his moement wass defeated in the War of 1812.

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Tecumseh

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Was a Shawnee leader that was agasint the Americans. He join forces with the British during 1812, but was eventually defeated by American Forces