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| Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel that was provoked by their differences over New York state politics. Was later committed for treason |
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| Great general ; switched sides during revolutionary war |
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| Traveled on expedition with Clark to find a water route to the pacific |
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| Author of The Last of the Mohicans and other Leatherstocking Tales glorifying the American pioneer spirit |
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| American naval hero of the Barbary War; commanded the USS Intrepid which, in a daring raid, burned the captured USS Philadelphia |
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| Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, who worked to put the struggling colony on a sound footing only to see it taken over by England. |
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| Dutch settler well-known for purchasing the island of Manhattan from local Native American groups in 1626 |
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| Shawnee Indian leader who, with his brother Tenskwatawa (“the Prophet”), lead an Indian confederation against white settlement in the Old Northwest; died in the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812 |
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| Wrote speller books (the dictionary) |
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| Wife of John Adams (2nd president), advocate for women's rights |
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| ruled the kingdom from 1814 (although he dated his reign from the death of his nephew in 1795) until his own death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to his flight from Napoleon during the Hundred Days |
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| Mistress of king louis XV |
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| Author of The Spirit of the Laws formulating a view of government with three branches; Enlightenment thinker influential with the founding fathers. |
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| English novelist of the Victorian era |
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| Frederick II (“the Great”) |
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| French thinker who was critical of the Enlightenment and extolled the virtues of the “noble savage” and advocated a political order founded on the “general will” of the people. |
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| Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history |
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| early leader in the Methodist movement |
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| Gen. Charles Lord Cornwallis |
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| Leading British general in American Revolution |
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| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
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| composer/philosopher of Enlightenment |
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| Chief justice of the Supreme Court who, in cases such as Marbury v. Madison, created a powerful role for the Supreme Court within the federal government |
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| is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial |
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| Official warrant or commission from a government authorizing the designated agent to search, seize, or destroy specified assets or personnel belonging to a foreign party which has committed some offense under the laws of nations against the assets or citizens of the issuing nation, and has usually been used to authorize private parties to raid and capture merchant shipping of an enemy nation. |
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| Opposition of war and violence |
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| Act of deliberate treachery or deception |
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| member of a group representing an organization |
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| a single person who wields all the power and authority of a state |
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| advance beyond proper limits |
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| list of specific responsibilities found in Article I Section 8 of the US constitution, which enumerate the authority granted to the US congress. Congress may exercise only those powers that are granted to it by the Constitution, limited by the Bill of Rights and the other protections found in the Constitutional text |
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| to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove |
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| leaders of their political parties in each of the houses of the legislature |
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| flagitious, nefarious, perverse, evil, base, unjust, wrong |
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| temporary pause in a line of succession or event. "in between," "transitional," or "temporary." |
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| dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure |
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| The senator who presides over the Senate when the Vice President is not around |
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| private warship authorized by a country's government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping |
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| XYZ affair and the Quasi-War with France |
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| The proposal that American diplomats sent to France bribe French officials in order to have a successful negotiation. |
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| Uprising of Massachusetts farmers in 1786-87 unhappy over excessive taxation foreclosures and inability to pay off debts. |
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| Western Pennsylvanians protest newly adopted federal taxes in 1794 |
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| American struggle to remove itself from british tyranny |
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| Adams defeats Jefferson in the run for the presidency |
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| Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party. |
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| Kentucky and Virginia Resolves |
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| Resolutions drafted by Madison and Jefferson protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts |
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| The state that refused to allow the “5% impost”, refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and was the last to ratify the Constitution. |
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