Chapter 10 vocab. (all sections)

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

Pride in or devotion to one’s country

Question 2

Henry Clay

Answer 2

From Kentucky, leader of the War Hawks

Question 3

War Hawks

Answer 3

Members of Congress from the South and West that wanted war with Britain

Question 4

Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 4

1811, Harrison marched 1,000 soldiers against Tecumseh’s town on the Tippecanoe River, Tecumseh was away so the Prophet was in charge and led a night surprise attack on the Americans, no side clearly won but the Americans celebrate the battle as a great victory

Question 5

William Henry Harrison

Answer 5

Governor of Indiana Territory, made great reputation for himself at the Battle of Tippecanoe

Question 6

Tecumseh

Answer 6

The Prophet’s brother, Shawnee leader who wanted to keep white settlers from taking more Native American land

Question 7

The Prophet

Answer 7

Tecumseh’s brother, Shawnee leader who wanted to keep white settlers from taking more Native American land

Question 8

Treaty of Greenville

Answer 8

1795, signed by leaders of the Miamis and other Native American nations, gave up land that later became part of Ohio, received $20,000 and were promised more money if they kept the promise of peace

Question 9

Nonintercourse Act

Answer 9

1809, the United States could trade with every country but Britain and France

Question 10

Smuggler

Answer 10

Person who violates trade laws by sneaking goods out of or into a country

Question 11

Embargo Act

Answer 11

1807, the United States couldn’t import or export goods, hurt America more than Britain and France, passed because France and Britain were seizing American merchant ships that were going to the other country

Question 12

Embargo

Answer 12

A ban on trade with other countries

Question 13

Impressment

Answer 13

The practice of forcing people into service

Question 14

Stephen Decatur

Answer 14

United States Navy officer, sailed a ship into the Tripoli harbor with his crew, set the Philadelphia on fire so the pirates couldn’t use it

Question 15

Barbary States

Answer 15

North African nations

Question 16

Zebulon Pike

Answer 16

Explored the upper Mississippi River, the Arkansas River, and parts of present-day Colorado and New Mexico from 1805-1807

Question 17

Continental Divide

Answer 17

A mountain ridge that separates River systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent

Question 18

Sacajawea

Answer 18

Married to French Canadian, acted as a translator for Lewis and Clark, captured from the Shoshones as a young girl

Question 19

Lewis and Clark

Answer 19

Started their trip to explore and map the Louisiana Purchase and find a route to the Pacific Ocean in May 1804

Question 20

Expedition

Answer 20

A long journey or voyage of expedition

Question 21

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Answer 21

Led the slave revolt in Haiti, almost forced the French out of Haiti by 1801

Question 22

Pinckney Treaty

Answer 22

Spain agreed to let Americans ship their goods down the Mississippi River and store them in New Orleans

Question 23

Judicial review

Answer 23

The power that Congress has to declare if a law is unconstitutional

Question 24

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 24

1803, Marbury was a “midnight judge” appointed by Adams on his last night as president, Jefferson told Madison not to deliver Marbury’s official papers confirming his appointment, Marbury sued Madison because the Judiciary Act said that only the Supreme Court could decide a case of a federal official, Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the Judiciary Act was unconstitutional which set the important precedent of judicial review

Question 25

John Marshall

Answer 25

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Adams, Federalist

Question 26

Laissez faire

Answer 26

French term for “let alone”

Question 27

Democratic

Answer 27

All the people have the same rights

Question 28

Oliver Hazard Perry

Answer 28

U.S captain, designed and built his own ships, sailed his fleet against the British in September 1813

Question 29

Battle of Lake Erie

Answer 29

American victory, Captain Perry: “we have met the enemy and they are ours”, first ship destroyed so Perry sailed to other American ship and continued the fight

Question 30

Andrew Jackson

Answer 30

Tennessee officer, commanded the American forces in the Creek War, won at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend with the help of the Cherokees

Question 31

Dolley Madison

Answer 31

Saved the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and a painting of George Washington from the White House before it was burned, Madison’s wife

Question 32

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 32

American soldiers commanded by Jackson, British prepared to attack New Orleans in late 1814, attacked New Orleans on January 8th, 1815, over 2,000 British died, only 7 Americans died

Question 33

Richard Allen

Answer 33

Recruited over 2,000 African American men to help build Philadelphia’s fortifications along with Reverend Absalom Jones

Question 34

Hartford Convention

Answer 34

Convention in Hartford, Connecticut that most of the delegates were Federalists who disliked the war and the Republican president, threatened to leave the Union, but then the news arrived that the war was over and the convention broke up

Question 35

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 35

Signed in Ghent, Belgium on December 24th, 1814, John Adams: “nothing was adjusted, nothing was settled”, U.S and Britain agreed to restore prewar conditions, impressment and neutrality was left out

Question 36

Neutral

Answer 36

Uninvolved in the war