Chapter 7 Flashcards
- Judith Sargent Murray
an early American advocate for women’s rights,
- University of Virginia
started by Thomas jefferson in 1819
- Benjamin Rush
a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, as well as the treasurer of the US Mint
- Noah Webster
the creator of the first dictionary of the American English Language
- Washington Irving
an author famous for his book “The Legend of SLeepy Hollow”
- Mason Weems
author of a story about George Washington’s Life
- Deism
belief in the existence of a superior being, who will not interfere in the Universe
- Thomas Paine
a propagandist who was the creator of “Common Sense” as well as “The Age of Reason”
- Unitarian Church
God as one person, and Jesus Christ is his son, but is not a god
10.Second Great Awakening
a time where there was great desire to join a church, of any faith.
- Evangelicanism
a wide-reaching “canopy” that covers a diverse number of Protestant traditions, denominations, organizations
- Freethinkers
a person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those concerning religious beliefs
- Samuel Slater
known as the father of the Industrial Revolution in the United States
- Eli Whitney
creator of the Cotton Gin, as well as interchangeable parts by creating his gun company
- Robert Fulton
an inventor who is credited with creating the Steamboat
- turnpike
a type of an expressway that requires a fee in order for a person to pass through
- Thomas Jefferson
bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon Bonaparte for 15 million
- Barbary War
wars fought between the United States and the Barbary States
- Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case in which the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States
- Judicial Review
the Supreme court has the right to scrutinize the decisions made by the Legislative branches
- John Marshall
a supreme court justice who dramatically changed the position the supreme court had in the government
- Impeachment of Samuel Chase
an attempt by Jefferson to remove Samuel Chase as a court Justice
- Napoleon Bonaparte
sold the Louisiana purchase to the United States after his dreams of having a North American Empire were crushed
- Louisiana Purchase
sold to the US from France and went from the Western Mississippi to Montana
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent by Jefferson to explore the land of the Louisiana purchase
- Zebulon Pike Expedition
searched the land around the rivers of the Louisiana Purchase
- Essex Junto
New England Federalist Party from Essex county, Massachusettes
- Aaron Burr
the vice president of Thomas Jefferson. Got into a duel with Hamilton
- Hamilton-Burr Duel
Hamilton made fun of Burr in a Newspaper and they dueled it out and Hamilton ended up dying
- impressment
the British Navy would take American soldiers into their ranks to fight.
- Chesapeake-Leopard Incident
crew of the Leopard pursued, attacked and boarded the American ship looking for deserters from the Royal Navy
- The Embargo of 1807
enacted by Congress in 1807 because of President Thomas Jefferson that banned trade between U.S. ports and foreign nations.
- Non-Intercourse Act
replaced the Embargo Act and made it so there was no trade with British and France ports
- William Henry Harrison
The ninth president of the United States who served for only one month
- Tenskwatawa
Tenskwatawa, was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe He was the brother of Tecumseh
- Tecumseh
leader of confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh’s War
- Battle of Tippecanoe
was a conflict between the Confederacy of Native Indian warriors led by Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison.
- War Hawks
congress members who urged for the War of 1812 to happen
- War of 1812
A war between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815
- Oliver Hazard Perry
an American naval commander.
- Andrew Jackson
the seventh US President who was known for fighting duels and was extremely popular
- Burning of Washington D.C.
The Capital of the United States was burned by the British in the War of 1812
- Bombardment of Ft. McHenry
bombardment by the British in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner while watching it
- The Star-Spangled Banner
written by Francis Scott Key during the bombing of Fort McHenry
- Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson’s rise to fame as general where he restrained british forces
- Hartford Convention
New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812
- Treaty of Ghent
the treaty that ended the war of 1812 between the Americans and the British
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
treaty between the United States and Britain limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
