Vocabulary Unit 4

Question 0

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 0

The alien act stated that the president could deport foreigners feared to be dangerous. The sedition act stated that false, scandalous statements could not be made about congress or the president.

Question 1

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 1

Treaty in which Spain gave the United States East Florida.. Spain also recognized the United States ownership of the Louisiana purchase. The U.S. agreed that Texas was not part of the Louisiana Territory

Question 2

American System

Answer 2

A program offered by Henry Clay that aimed at uniting different sectors of America’s economy with the roads, canals, and other internal improvements

Question 3

Cotton Gin

Answer 3

Invention by Eli Whitney that removed seeds from short staple cotton

Question 4

Democratic-Republican Party

Answer 4

Political party founded by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson which favored a weak central government

Question 5

Embargo Act

Answer 5

Act passed by congress that forbade commerce with any foreign power, it was repealed in 1809 because of its failure

Question 6

Era of Good Feelings

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A time when the nation seemed united in achieving national goals and there was absence of partisan and sectional bickering

Question 7

Erie Canal

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Canal completed in 1825 that linked Lake Erie and the Hudson River. It opened commerce between New York and the northwestern interior

Question 8

Excise Tax

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A tax on certain goods made or sold within a country

Question 9

Federalist Party

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Political party founded by Alexander Hamilton that favored a strong central government

Question 10

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Answer 10

A case in which the Supreme Court denounced state interference in interstate commerce and upheld the power of Congress to regulate such commerce

Question 11

Interchangeable Parts

Answer 11

Parts of a machine that can be substituted for parts of other machines of the same type

Question 12

Jay’s Treaty

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Treaty in which Britain promised to remove its troops from the American Northwest but refused to agree to end it’s impressment of American seamen

Question 13

Judicial Review

Answer 13

Power of the Supreme Court to review laws to determine if they are constitutional

Question 14

Judiciary Acts of 1789

Answer 14

Established a Supreme Court of six members

Question 15

Judiciary Act of 1801

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A law that Expanded the number of federal judgeships and reduced the number of Supreme Court Justices preventing Jefferson from appointing justices to the Supreme Court

Question 16

Lewis & Clarke Expedition

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Exploration of the land Obtained in the Louisiana purchase

Question 17

Loose Interpretation

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Interpretation of the Constitution that except broad and flexible meanings to rules set down in the Constitution

Question 18

Marbury vs. Madison

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The case in which the Supreme Court declared that the court had the power of judicial review

Question 19

McCulloch vs. Maryland

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A case in which the Supreme Court upheld congresses use of implied powers in creating the US Bank

Question 20

Missouri Compromise

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A law that admitted Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also prohibited slavery in those parts of the Louisiana purchase north of the latitude of 36°, 30 minutes

Question 21

Monroe Doctrine

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A declaration by President Monroe stating that European countries should no longer interfere with the countries of the Western Hemisphere it also stated that the United States would stay out of internal European affairs

Question 22

Strict Interpretation

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Interpretation of the Constitution that excepts only a literal meaning to rules set down in the Constitution

Question 23

Pickney’s Treaty

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Treaty with Spain by which Spain gave Americans the right to unrestricted travel on the Mississippi River and the right of deposit in New Orleans

Question 24

Protective Tarrifs

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A tax on imported goods which is designed to raise the price of those imports to the point that foreign goods are more expensive than domestic goods

Question 25

Sectionalism

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A sense of loyalty to ones section of the country instead of the nation as a whole

Question 26

States Rights

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An interpretation of the Constitution that puts primacy on the rights of the states

Question 27

Steamboat

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Boat that burns coal or wood to generate steam which powers the steam engine the engine then propels the ship through the water

Question 28

Treaty of Ghent

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Treaty ending the war of 1812 both sides would maintain the same territory that they had possessed before the war

Question 29

Unconstitutional

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In violation of the Constitution of the United States

Question 30

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Answer 30

Resolutions passed in Virginia and Kentucky in response to the alien and sedition acts of 1798. The resolution stated that the states had the power to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional

Question 31

War Hawks

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Americans especially the Republicans entering into Congress who are eager to declare war on Britain in 1812

Question 32

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 32

A rebellion in which farmers refused to pay excise taxes on the whiskey that they produced on their farm. It was put down by George Washington in 1794