Chapter 8

Question 1

Indians not taxed

Answer 1

A phrase used in the constitution to exclude Native Americans from being counted in the census. It indirectly affirmed native nations sovereignty, and denied natives US citizenship.

Question 2

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 2

For federal laws passed in 1798 during an undeclared war with France that limited the freedom of speech and press and restricted the liberty of non-citizens

Question 3

Separation of powers

Answer 3

A political theory, calling for division of the powers of government, among three separate branches (executive legislative and judicial) which intern check and balance, one another

Question 4

Judiciary Act of 1801

Answer 4

Passed by the atoms administration prior to leaving office the act sought to place numerous federalist judges, sometimes called the midnight judges on federal courts for lifetime appointments in 1803 the judiciary act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

Question 5

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 5

 The 1803 court decision granting the Supreme Court, the power of judicial review that is the ability to deem laws passed by Congress as constitutional

Question 6

Judicial Review

Answer 6

The power of the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of laws established in the Marbury versus Madison decision

Question 7

Empire of Liberty

Answer 7

 Thomas Jeffersons view for the United States, which he believed, should continue to expand territorially as an ever-growing union of self governing republics

Question 8

Cotton gin

Answer 8

A hand operated machine patented by Eli Whitney in 1794 that quickly removed seeds from cotton balls, enabling the mass production of cotton in 19th century America

Question 9

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 9

President Thomas Jefferson, purchase of the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million doubling the size of US territorial claims

Question 10

Embargo Act

Answer 10

In 1807 law promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, prohibiting American ships from leaving for foreign ports in order to safeguard them from British and French attacks disband on American exports, proved disasters for the US economy

Question 11

War of 1812

Answer 11

A conflict for in North America and Etsy between great Britain and the United States over American shipping rates and British efforts to spurt Indiana tax on American settlements. Canadians and Native Americans also fought in the war.

Question 12

Creek War

Answer 12

A conflict along the gulf coast between one faction of the creek, nation, and American forces

Question 13

Tecumseh’s War

Answer 13

A conflict in the Indiana territory for control of the Great Lakes region, led by the Shawnee chief and warrior Tecumseh

Question 14

Cherokee Nation

Answer 14

An indigenous nation, native to present day, Georgia, and parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, reflecting the effects of President Thomas Jefferson’s land policy on native nations, internal conflicts, a rose, went to Cherokee men sold millions of acres of land in Tennessee to the federal government. All others resisted removal from the eastern lands.

Question 15

Hartford Convention

Answer 15

Hey series of secret meetings in December 18 14 in January 1815 at which New England federalists protested American involvement in the war of 1812 and discuss several constitutional amendments including limiting presidents to one term designed to weaken the dominant republican party

Question 16

Secession

Answer 16

The act of withdrawing from a larger entity, in the case of American history, the act of a state leaving the union

Question 17

American Colonization Society

Answer 17

Established in 1817 and organization, whose mission was to return freed slaves to the colony of Liberia in western Africa. It was founded by northern reformers and southern slave owners concerned about the growing number of three blacks in the American population.

Question 18

Tallmadge Amendment

Answer 18

An attempt to ban slavery in the surgery is a precondition for entry into the union. The amendment passed the house and 1819, but ultimately failed in the senate.

Question 19

diffusion

Answer 19

The belief held by enslavers the allowing slavery in the west, the institution with decline in east, and as the proportion of black enslaved people to the white people in both regions, then would be low slaves would have better lives, and would be less likely to revolt 

Question 20

Missouri Compromise

Answer 20

1820 legislative decision to admit Missouri as a slave, state and abolish slavery in the area west of Mississippi River