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Chapter 10 Vocab VK
Chapter 10 U.S History Vocabulary
Definition | Word |
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People who take extreme political positions | Radical |
Under this power, Adams could appoint as many Federalist judges as he could | Judiciary Act of 1801 |
Federalist who checked the power of the Democratic-Republicans | John Marshall |
Important decision made by the Supreme Court | Marbury vs. Madison |
contradicted the law of the Constitution | Unconstitutional |
Supreme Court has final say in what is constitutional | Judicial Review |
Large area of land that the United States bought for 15 million dollars from France in 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
Captain who lead the expedition | Meriwether Lewis |
Volunteer force and a Lieutenant | William Clark |
An expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory | Lewis and Clark expedition |
Translator and guide for Lewis and Clark | Sacagawea |
Leader of an expedition to the Red River | Zebulon Pike |
Kidnapping | Impressment |
American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports | Embargo Act of 1807 |
A Shawnee chief who tried to stop the confiscation of Native American land | Tecumesh |
Westerners who called for war | War Hawk |
Experienced officer who took control of the Americans' ships | Oliver Hazard Perry |
Victory by the Americans that stopped th British attack on the Northwest | Battle of the Thames |
Watched the British attack on Baltimore and was inspired by the actions to write the Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key |
Treaty that ended the War of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |