Midterm page 5

Question 1

Louisiana Territory/Louisiana
NA Purchase

Answer 1

Name of a gigantic land purchase the US made from France doubling the size of the US while T. Jefferson was President. Land the US bought went from Mississippi to Canadian Rockies to Texas

Question 2

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answer 2

Meriwether Lewis and Sinclair Clark led a journey of discovery into the Louisiana Territory. The US now had a mapped route to the Pacific, greater knowledge of plants, animals and Native American tribes out west.

Question 3

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 3

Landmark (important) Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court established the principle of judicial review. Judicial review is that the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional.

Question 4

War of 1812

Answer 4

War between US and England sparked by England forcing US Sailors on trade boats to serve in the British Navy. British troops burned the white house and Lewiston during the war.

Question 5

Results of the War of 1812

Answer 5

No major results. Nothing that led to the war was resolved and no land was lost by either side.

Question 6

Reasons for the War of 1812

Answer 6

England forced US Sailors on trade boats to serve in their navy and they supplied Native Americans in Ohio with weapons to fight against the US

Question 7

Sacajawea

Answer 7

Teenage Native american woman who served as a guide and interpreter to Lewis and Clark as they explored the west

Question 8

Laissez Faire

Answer 8

Economic policy in which the government is “Hands off” as much as possible

Question 9

Zebulon Pike

Answer 9

Explorer who traveled and explored the Rocky Mountains in present day Colorado

Question 10

Expedition

Answer 10

A long journey of exploration and discovery

Question 11

Pinckney Treaty

Answer 11

Agreement between the US and Spain. It allowed the US to store goods in New Orleans and have access to Mississippi through New Orleans (1795)