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ch.10 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Radical | A person who takes extreme political positions. |
| Judicary Act of 1801 | A law that increased the number of federal judges; allowing President John Adams to fill most of the new spots with federalist. |
| John Marshall | A 45 year old federal as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| Marbury V. Madison | an 1803, case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish laws by declaring them unconstitutional |
| Unconstitutional | something that contradicts the law of the Constitution |
| Judicial review | the principle that the Supreme Court has the final say in the interpretins the constitution Louisiana Purchase |
| Louisiana Purchase | the 1803 Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France |
| Meriwether Lewis | a captain to lead the expedition |
| William Clark | a lietnant to oversee a volunteer force |
| Lewis and Clark expedition | exdedition a group led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who explored the lands of the Louisiana Purchase beginning in 1803 |
| Sacagawea | is a 17 year old and was a shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge od geography would be of great value to Lewis and Clark |
| Zebulon Pike | expedition left st. louis ona southerly route |
| Impressment | the act of seizing by force |
| Embargo Act of 1807 | an act that stated that American ships were no longer allowed to sail to forgein ports and it also closed American ports to british ships |
| Tecumsehi | a Shawnee Chief vowed to stop the loss of Native American land |
| Warhawks | a westerner who supported the war of 1812 |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | an experiences officer took charge of this infant fleet |
| Battle of the Thames | an American victory over the British in the War of 1812, which ended the British threat to the northwest territory |
| Francis Scott Key | a Washington lawyer watched the all night battle ar Fort Mchenry |
| Treaty of Ghent | treaty signed in 1814, which ended the war of 1812; no territory exchanged hands and trade disputes were not resolved |