Vocab Part 4

Question 1

3rd President of the United States. He favored limited central government. He was chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; approved of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and promoted ideals of republicanism. Sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore this territory.

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson

Question 2

1803, the U.S. spends $15 million to buy a large amount of land from the west of the Mississippi from France; doubled the size of the United States

Answer 2

Louisiana Purchase

Question 3

Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand.

Answer 3

War Hawks

Question 4

A Shawnee chief of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He took arms against American settlers moving into the Middle West, and supported the British in the War of 1812, in which he was killed.

Answer 4

Tecumseh

Question 5

Americans v. Shawnee Indians. led by governor William Henry Harrison, the Americans defeated the Shawnee’s and Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory.

Answer 5

Battle of Tippecanoe

Question 6

A public official of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835. His interpretations of the Constitution in cases such as Marbury versus Madison served to strengthen the power of the Court and the power of the federal government generally.

Answer 6

John Marshall

Question 7

the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional.

Answer 7

Judicial Review

Question 8

Supreme Court Case ruled by John Marshall; William Marbury sued for his commision as a judge because he had been promised a job by Adams but refused by Jefferson; ruling: Marshall claims that Supreme Court cannot rule on the case and ruled earlier Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional; established judicial review

Answer 8

Marbury v. Madison

Question 9

when delegates from New England and states protested against war and proposed new laws and Constitutional Amendments to restore power in New England and threatened seccession if demands not met; these federalists were portrayed as disloyal afterwards because to much was happening in the nation for them to demand such changes; important to federalsist because it was one of the last acts of the party before it was no longer a party.

Answer 9

Hartford Convention

Question 10

When Pasha of Tripoli declared war on America because Jefferson refused to pay tribute to protect American ships it was known as the Barbary War (1801-1805); there was a second Barbary war in 1815; this forced Jefferson rethink his idea of keeping a “mosquito fleet”

Answer 10

Barbary Pirates

Question 11

British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service

Answer 11

Impressment

Question 12

1807 - The American ship Chesapeake refused to allow the British on the Leopard to board to look for deserters. In response, the Leopard fired on the Chesapeake. As a result of the incident, the U.S. expelled all British ships from its waters until Britain issued an apology. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.

Answer 12

Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

Question 13

Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south. The act was seen as one of many precursors to war.

Answer 13

Embargo Act

Question 14

4th President; Secretary of State; lead nation through War of 1812. Strict constructionist, 4th president, father of the Constitution.

Answer 14

James Madison

Question 15

Law passed by Congress in 1809 reopening trade with all nations except France and Britain and authorizing the president to reopen trade with them if they lifted restrictions on American shipping.

Answer 15

Nonintercourse Act

Question 16

opened trade with britain and france, said if either nation repealed its restrictions on neutral shipping the US would halt trade with the other, didn’t work.

Answer 16

Macon’s Bill No. 2

Question 17

War between US and Britain; America declared war in 1812 because of trade restrictions, impressments, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion, and humiliation of American honor.

Answer 17

War of 1812

Question 18

United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Answer 18

Oliver Hazard Perry

Question 19

The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers.

Answer 19

Andrew Jackson

Question 20

Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S.

Answer 20

Battle of New Orleans

Question 21

(1814) Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border.

Answer 21

Treaty of Ghent

Question 22

An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States, 1804-1806 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were commissioned by Jefferson to map and explore the Louisiana Purchase region. Beginning at St. Louis, Missouri, the expedition travelled up the Missouri River to the Great Divide, and then down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. It produced extensive maps of the area and recorded many scientific discoveries, greatly facilitating later settlement of the region and travel to the Pacific coast.

Answer 22

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Question 23

Francis Scott Key saw Fort McHenry hold out during the night against a British attack. He wrote the poem “Star Spangled Banner” about the experience of seeing the U.S. flag still flying above the fort in the morning, and the poem was later set to the tune of an old English bar song.

Answer 23

Francis Scott Key “The Star Spangled Banner”

Question 24

A name for President Monroe’s two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. Since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party and no partisan conflicts.

Answer 24

Era of Good Feelings

Question 25

He was a Political Scientist during the 1820’s. He was also a Congressman from Kentucky. He developed this which US adopted after the War of 1812. It created a protective tariff to American Markets. It also used the tariff to build road and canel for better transportation. (It started a cycle to trading for US market)

Answer 25

Henry Clay; American System

Question 26

First major financial crisis in the US that occurred during the end of the Era of Good Feelings; resulted from international conflicts such as the Embargo Act and War of 1812.

Answer 26

Panic of 1819

Question 27

First national road building project funded by Congress. It made travel and transportation of goods much easier because it was one continuous road that was in good condition.

Answer 27

National (Cumberland) Road

Question 28

a 363-mile-long artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie, built between 1817 and 1825

Answer 28

Erie Canal

Question 29

American inventor who designed the first commercially successful this and this (1765-1815)

Answer 29

Robert Fulton; steamboats

Question 30

first began during gun manufacturing
concept named american system by british cuz never seen anything like it
allowed for less effort and less expensive
eli whitney made agreement with gov to make 10,000 rifles in 28 months in 1798
goal not met til 10 years after
allowed for mass production of high quality goods to common ppl
showed americans believed in democracy and equality
used in national armormy in springfield, clocks, sewing machines
brought national pride.

Answer 30

Eli Whitney; interchangeable parts

Question 31

Father of the factory system; stole plans from British mechanic and escaped to America; got capital from Moses Brown (quaker); first efficient American machinery for spinning cotton thread.

Answer 31

Samuel Slater

Question 32

Developed in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1820s, in these factories as much machinery as possible was used, so that few skilled workers were needed in the process, and the workers were almost all single young farm women, who worked for a few years and then returned home to be housewives.

Answer 32

Lowell System; textile mills

Question 33

Machine that was fifty times more effective than the handpicking process. Separated cotton from seed.

Answer 33

Cotton Gin

Question 34

It forbade in the proposed territory of Nebraska, but was repealed by Douglas. Missouri-slave; Maine-free.

Answer 34

Missouri Compromise

Question 35

The Treaty demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval armaments and forts still remained, and laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and British North America This agreement was indicative of improving relations between the United States and Britain during this time period following the end of the War of 1812.

Answer 35

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Question 36

1819 - Under the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the U.S., and the U.S. gave up its claims to Texas. gave american southwest to Spain.

Answer 36

Florida Purchase Treaty

Question 37

The policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 37

Monroe Doctrine