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First 8 Presidents of the United States (PotUS)
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
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| The Louisiana Purchase was in the year __________. |
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| Constitutional amendment ratified in 1804 that provides for separate balloting in the electoral College for president and vice president. |
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| Law that the Federalist Congress passed to increase the number of federal courts and judicial positions; President Adams rushed to fill these positions with Federalists before his term ended. |
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| Virginia lawyer and politician made chief justice of the Supreme Court by President Adams; his legal decisions helped shape the roe of the Court in American Government |
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| striving to overcome distrust or regain someone's good will |
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| Supreme Court decision (1803) declaring part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and thus establishing the principal of judicial review. |
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| Agreement with the principles or provisions of the Constitution. |
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| The power of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress and the states. |
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| The presentation of formal charges of wrongdoing against a pubic official |
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| Treasury secretary in Jefferson's administration; he favored limited government and reduced the federal debt by cutting spending |
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Island shared by the modern nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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The US purchase of Louisiana from France for $15 million in 1803; the Louisiana territory extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
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| Jefferson aide who was sent to explore the Louisiana Territory in 1803; he later served as its governor |
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| Soldier and explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis on the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory; he was responsible for mapmaking |
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| Shoshone woman who served as a guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
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| Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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1804-1805 expedition to explore the Louisiana territory
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| the theory that the exercise of reason, rather than the acceptance of authority or spiritual revelation, is the only valid basis for belief and the best source of spiritual truth |
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| Protestant movements that stress personal conversion and salvation by faith |
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| the belief that God created the universe in such a way that no divine intervention was necessary for its continued operation |
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| the Christian belief that God consists of three divine persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit |
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| African-American mathematician and astronomer who published an almanac that calculated the movements of stars and planets |
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| African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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| African-American branch of Methodism established in Philadelphia in 1816 and in New York in 1821 |
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| to withdraw formally from membership in an alliance or association |
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| group of Federalists in Essex County, Massachusetts, who called for New England and New York to secede from the Union during Jefferson's second term |
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| Virginia politician who was a cousin of Thomas Jefferson; he believed in limited government and opposed the acquisition of Florida |
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| notorious deal in which the Georgia legislature sold a huge tract of public and to speculators for a low price; the sale was overturned by a new legislature a year later |
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| Republican faction formed by John Randolph in protest against Jefferson's plan for acquiring Florida from Spain |
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| the simultaneous discharge of all the guns on one side of a warship |
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| Napoleon's order authorizing the capture of an neutral vessels sailing from British ports or submitting to British searches |
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| a government order that bans trade with another nation or group of nations |
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| Shawnee religious visionary who called for a return to Indian traditions and founded the community of Prophetstown on Tippecanoe Creek in Indiana |
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| Shawnee leader and brother of the Prophet; he tried to establish an Indian confederacy along the frontier as a barrier to white expansion |
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| Members of Congress from the West and South who campaigned for war with Britain in hopes of stimulating the economy and annexing new territory |
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| Congressman from Kentucky who was a leader of the War Hawks; he helped negotiate the treaty ending the War of 1812 |
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| Congressman from South Carolina who was a leader of the War Hawks; he later became an advocate of states' rights |
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| 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 |
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| Law passed by Congress in 1810 that offered exclusive trading rights to France or Britain, whichever recognized American neutral rights first |
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| Indiana governor who led US Forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe; he later became the ninth president of the United States |
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| Battle near Prophetstown in Indiana Territory in 1811; American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated Shawnee followers of the Prophet |
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| Nickname of the Constitution, the forty-four gun American frigate who victory over Guerrière bolstered sagging morale in the War of 1812 |
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| a very fast warship rigged with square sails and usually carrying 30 guns on its gun deck |
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| American naval officer who led the fleet that defeated the British in the Battle of Put-in-Bay during the War of 1812 |
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| the ship that carries the feet commander and bears the commander's flag |
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| General in the War of 1812 who defeated the British at New Orleans in 1815; he later became the seventh president of the United States |
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| a nation's commercial ships |
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| An absolute embargo on a American trade and British imports |
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| a portable, muzzle-loading cannon |
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| Author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which chronicles the British bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore in the War of 1812; it became the official U.S. national anthem in 1916 |
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| Battle in 1814 between Tennessee militia and Creek Indians in Alabama; the American victory marked the end of Indian power in the South |
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| leader of a band of pirates off Barataria Bay in southeast Louisiana; he offered to fight for the Americans at New Orleans in return for the pardon of his men |
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| Battle in the War of 1812 in which American troops commanded by Andrew Jackson repulsed the British attempt to seize New Orleans |
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| Treaty ending the War of 1812, signed in Belgium in 1814; it restored peace but was silent on the issues over which the United States and Britain had clashed |
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War of 1812
map of battles |
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