Chapter 9 - The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism 1800-1824 Flashcards
Marbury v. Madison
• Supreme Court decision of 1803 that created the precedent for judicial review by ruling as unconstitutional part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Impressment
• The coercion of American sailors into the British navy.
Chesapeake Incident
• Attack on 1807 by the British ship Leopard on the American ship Chesapeake in American territorial waters.
Embargo Act of 1807
• Act passed by Congress in 1807 prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foreign port.
Pan-Indian resistance movement
• Movement calling for the political and cultural unification of Indian tribes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
War Hawks
• Members of Congress, predominantly the South and West, who aggressively pushed for a war against Britain after their election in 1810.
War of 1812
• War fought between the US and Britain from June 1812 to January 1815 largely over British restrictions on American shipping.
Battle of Put-in-Bay
• American naval victory on Lake Erie in September 1813 in the War or 1812 that denied the British strategic control over the Great Lakes.
Battle of Plattsburgh
• Victory of Commodore Thomas McDonough over a British fleet in Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814.
Treaty of Ghent
• Treaty signed in December 1814 between the US and Britain that ended the War of 1812.
Battle of New Orleans
• Decisive American War of 1812 victory over British troops in January 1815 that ended any British hopes of gaining control of the lower Mississippi River Valley.
Era of Good Feelings
• The period from 1817 to 1823 in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony.
Second Bank of the United States
• A national bank chartered by Congress in 1816 with extensive regulatory powers over currency and credit.
Fletcher v. Peck
• Supreme Court decision of 1810 that overturned a state law by ruling that it violated a legal contract.
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• Supreme Court decision of 1819 that prohibited states from interfering with the privileges of a private corporation.
McCulloch v. Maryland
• Supreme Court decision of 1819 that upheld the constitutional authority of Congress to charter a national bank, and thereby to regulate the nation’s currency and finances.
Rush-Bagot Agreement
• Treaty of 1817 between the US and Britain that effectively demilitarized the Great Lakes by sharply limiting the number of ships each power could station on them.
Anglo-American Accords
• Series of agreements reached in the British-American Conventions of 1818 that fixed the western boundary between the US and Canada, allowed for joint occupation of Oregon, and restored American fishing rights.
Trans-Continental Treaty of 1819
• Treaty between the US and Spain in which Spain ceded Florida to the US, surrendered all claims to the Pacific Northwest and agreed to a boundary between the Louisiana Purchase territory and the Spanish Southwest.
Monroe Doctrine
• In December 1823, Monroe declared to Congress that the Americas “are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.”
Missouri Compromise
• Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
American System
• The program of gov’t subsidies favored by Henry Clay and his followers to promote American economic growth and protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition.
