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Aaron Burr

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Dueled Alexander Hamilton, became political outcast

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Cane ridge

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  • church in Kentucky
  • evangelical ministers preside over the nation’s first “camp meeting” – an extraordinary revival that lasted several days and imprest all who saw it with its size and it’s fervor
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Deism

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Accept existence of God, but believe He is detached from the universe
-watchmaker view

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton gin

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Handsome Lake

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Seneca Prophet

  • miraculous rebirth after alcoholism hope to give him a special stature within tribe
  • inspired many Indians to give up gambling and whiskey
  • called for revival of Indian ways
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Hartford Convention

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Dec. 15, 1814

  • delegates from New England discuss grievances
  • decide not to secede, demands rejected by central gov
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Impressment

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Forced service in military

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John Marshall

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  • Chief Justice, federalist
  • appointed by Adams
  • Marbury v Madison
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Marbury v Madison

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Judicial review

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Mercy Otis Warren

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Playwright/agitator

-wrote “history of the revolution” (1805) emphasize heroism of American struggle

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Neolin

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Delaware prophet
-sparked widespread religious revival in Old Northwest
-combine Christian and Indian imagery
-personal God intimately involved in the affairs of man
Called for Indians to rise up in defense of their lands and denounced growth of trade with weight civilizations

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Noah Webster

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-Connecticut schoolmaster/lawyer
-American students should be educated as patriots, with nationalistic thoughts
-simplified/unified American spelling
“American spelling book”

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Robert Fulton

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Perfected steamboat &I brought to America

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Second Great Awakening

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Conservative theologians of 1790s fight the spread of religious rationalism, and to encourage establishments to revitalize their organizations

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Tecumseh

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Chief of Shawness tribe
Advocate uniting of Indian tribes
-militant

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The Embargo

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  • prohibited American ships from leaving the US for any foreign port in the world
  • v controversial & caused Econ depression
  • hurts merchants & shipowners
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The Prophet (Tenskwatawa)

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Mystical awakening when recovering from alcoholism

-demonstrate power of religious leaders to mobilize Indians behind political and military objectives

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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November 7, 1811

  • heavy losses for both whites and Indians
  • disillusioned the Prophet’s followers, who believed his magic would protect them
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Toussaint L’ouverture

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Slave rebel leader in santo Domingo

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William Henry Harrison

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Advocate of growth and development in w lands

-passed law 1800 made it easier for white settlers to acquire farms on w frontier

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Benjamin Rush

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Advocate of new medicinal techniques (bleeding and purging)

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Washington Irving

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NY resident

-satirical stories of early American life and fables of society in new world

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Freethinkers

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Skeptical philosophers that provoke second great awakening

-victims of new religious fervor

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the Turnpike Era

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1792-?

-corporations start building turnpikes, too expensive so gov takes over

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Samuel Chase

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  • Highly partisan federalist
  • Supreme Court justice
  • failure to impeach him showed that impeachment can’t be used as a political tool
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Zebulon Pike

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Explorer at the same time as Lewis and Clark

-account of western travels created enduring and inaccurate view of w US (uninhabited, uncultivated desert)

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Chesapeake-Leonard incident

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American commander James Barron refused to allow the British to search the Chesapeake (ship), the Leonard (British ship) opened fire
-Barron surrendered

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Non-intercourse Act

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Replace The Embargo

  • reopened trade w everyone but Britain & France
  • expired after one year
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Macon’s Bill No. 2

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Conditionally reopened free trade w Britain and France

-replaced non intercourse act

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War Hawks

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Want war

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Put-in-bay

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Port where an American military victory took place

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Battle of New Orleans

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January 1815

-British retreated

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Treaty of Ghent

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  • British abandon call for Indian buffer state in NW
  • 1814
  • Americans give up demand for British renunciation of impressment and for Canada
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Rush-Bagot Agreement

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Mutual disarmament of Great Lakes

1817

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