Unit 4 Part 1 Flashcards
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government.
Marbury v. Madison
Act passed by congress in 1807 prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foreign port.
Embargo Act of 1807
Members of congress, predominantly from the south and west, who aggressively pushed for a war against Britain after their election in 1810.
War Hawks
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.
Battle of New Orleans
War fought between the United States and Britain from June 1812 to January 1815, largely over prudish restrictions on American shipping.
War of 1812
Treaty signed in December 1814 between United States and Britain that ended the war of 1812.
Treaty of Ghent
Declaration by Pres. James Monroe and 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of the European nations.
MOnroe doctrine
(French: Vente de la Louisiane “Sale of Louisiana”) was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square kilometers or 529,920,000 acres) of France’s claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total sum of 15 million dollars (around 4 cents per acre[1]), for the Louisiana territory ($236 million in 2013 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre).[2][3] The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River; most of North Dakota; most of South Dakota; northeastern New Mexico; northern Texas; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Louisiana purchase
known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
Lewis and Clark expedition
The period from 1817 to 1823 in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled the Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony
Era of good feelings
Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana purchase territory.
Missouri compromise
Laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the Civil War.
Black codes
The most carefully devised a slave revolt in which rebels plan to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrade by other slaves and 75 conspirators were executed.
Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy
Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized 1000 slaves for an attack on the Richmond, Virginia, and 1800.
Gabriel’s rebellion
The organization and supervision of slave field hands into working teams of southern plantations.
Gang system
