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16 Cards in this Set
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Impressment
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forcing people to serve in the aarmy or navy
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embargo
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banning of trade against Britian
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Continental Divide
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in Rocky Mountians, change in directional flow of streams and rivers
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Northwest Passage
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all-water route beleived to exsist across North America
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Louisianna Purchase
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doubled the size of the U.S., deal made by Jefferson, west of Mississippi River
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Louis and Clark Expedition
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Meriwether Louis and William Clark started in St.Louis on May 1804
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Judical Reveiw
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supreme court has right to declare act of congress unconstitutional
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Battle of New Orleans
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began January 8th when British marched in fog to American defenses in fog, But... fog lifted & Americans fired on British
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James Madison
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4th President; faced difficulties continuing trade war with increasing pressure of war hawks
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Meriwehther Louis
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explorer went on expedition with Clark, became governer of VA and served as Preasidential assitant to Thomas Jefferson
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Sacagawea
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Indian in Shoshoni tribe, helped Louis and Clark get across Rocky Mt. on expedition
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William Clark
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leader of expedition with Louis
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John Armstrong
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Madison's Secretary of War who did not beleive British would attack Washington
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Thomas Jefferson
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Founded University of VA; wrote VA Statute for Religous Freedom & Declaration of Independence
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Frances Scott Key
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wrote Star Spangled Banner
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U.S.S. Constitution
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longest & oldest comissoned ship in U.S.
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