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48 Cards in this Set
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Bill of Rights
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Amendments that protected individual liberties.
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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Established a federal district court for each state.
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Cabinet
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The president's advisors.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Secretary of treasury.
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Bank of the U.S.
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A central bank with branches in major U.S. cities.
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Strict construction
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Philosophy of narrow constitutional interpretation.
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Loose construction
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Philosophy of broad constitutional interpretation.
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Whiskey Rebellion
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Protesters against a bill authorizing collection of the tax organized a militia and marched to Philly. They challenged federal authority,
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Capitalism
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An economic system in which private businesses run most industries.
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Little Turtle
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Indian chief of Miami who, with a small army of native americans, attacked trespassers on their land.
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Anthony Wayne
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Revolutionary War hero who led and organized a group of people to settle the situation with Little Turtle.
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Battle of Fallen Timbers
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In the summer of 1794, Little Turtle's and Wayne's armies clashed and fought. Wayne's army was successful.
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Treaty of Greenville
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Gave the U.S. title to American Indian lands making up much of present-day Ohio and Indiana.
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French Revolution
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Through the 1700's, the French were living very poorly. A constitution was being written for France, but on July 14, 1789, French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a royal prison that was a hated symbol of oppression. This attack proved a key turning point in the revolution.
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Impressment
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Kidnapping
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Edmond Genet
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Young French diplomat who hoped to organize "revolutionary clubs" and persuade Americans to honor their 1778 military alliance treaty with France.
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John Jay
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Chief Justice who was sent to Britain in 1794 to negotiate a settlement.
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Jay's Treaty
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The resulted agreement of John Jay's negotiation. The British agreed to abandon their northwest forts.
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Pinckney's Treaty
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Recognized the southern boundary of the U.S. with Spanish Florida as the 31st parallel.
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Thomas Pinckney
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Of South Carolina, he negotiated Pinckney's Treaty in 1795.
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Right of Deposit
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The right to temporarily unload goods at New Orleans without paying a duty to Spain.
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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to a particular part of the country.
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
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France's foreign minister.
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XYZ Affair
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Talleyrand-Perigord sent three agents to present France's demands to U.S. diplomats so the U.S. to grant France a multilmillion-dollar loan. President Adams published the demands with X,Y, and Z instead of the agent's names. Americans responded with great fury.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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This series of laws was intended to protect the nation and to weaken the Republicans.They authorized the president to imprison or expel foreigners and jail any citizen who wrote, said, or printed anything about the government.
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional.
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Aaron Burr
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U.S. senator of New York who, with T.J., was against John Adams and Charles Pinckney for presidency.
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12th Amendment
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Required electors to vote for presidential and vice presidential candidates on separate ballots.
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John Marshall
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Adams selected him as Chief Justice of the U.S.
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Judicial Review
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The power of the courts to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
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Marbury vs. Madison
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Jefferson and Madison refused to allow William Marbury to take office, even after he resigned from D.C.'s Justice of the Peace.
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Louisiana Purchase
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Bought for $15 million was the Louisiana area.
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Toussaint-Louverture
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African slaves took control of an entire colony under this person's leadership.
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Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
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With a crew of 45 explorers the Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis in May of 1804 to explore and map the Louisiana territory,
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Sacagawea
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Shoshone Indian who was a guide and interpreter to Lewis and Clark.
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Zebulon Pike
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Explorer who founded Pike's Peak in Colorado.
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Orders in Council
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Great Britain passed this in 1807. It forbade neutral vessels from trading with France or entering ports under French control.
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Embargo Act
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Act that stopped shipments of food and other American products to all foreign ports.
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Non-Intercourse Act
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Prohibited U.S. trade with Britain and France.
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Tecumseh
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Shawnee leader who created an indian army.
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William Henry Harrison
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Marshalled troops for the indian attack along the Tippecanoe river in Indian Territory.
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Indians fought against Harrison's troops at Tippecanoe and lost the battle.
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Battle of Thames
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Harrison defeated the British and their American Indian allies; the British hold on the Northwest Territory was finally broken.
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Dolley Madison
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Escaped the executive mansion just hours before enemy forces crashed through its doors.
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Andrew Jackson
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General who arrived in New Orleans to lead U.S. forces.
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Battle of New Orleans
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Won by the U.S., it was the most decisive U.S. victory.
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Treaty of Ghent
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Officially ended the war and restored all conquered territory.
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Hartford Convention
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Federalists who opposed war met in Hartford, Connecticut to discuss negotiating a separate peace with Britain.
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