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1775-1825
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe Doctrine | a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US |
| Embargo Act 1807 | A legislative measure enacted by Congress in 1807 at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson that banned trade between U.S. ports and foreign nations |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 doubled the size of the United States, gave the country complete control of the port of New Orleans, and provided territory for westward expansion |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee leader who attempted to establish a confederacy to unify Native Americans against white encroachment. He sided with the British in the War of 1812 and was killed in the Battle of the Thames |
| Jay Treaty | a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that settled outstanding disputes, negotiated by John Jay (1745-1829) in 1794 |
| Whiskey Rebellion | was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington |
| Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion | was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800. |
| Annapolis Convention | a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis, Maryland, of 12 delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) that unanimously called for a constitutional convention |
| Hartford Convention | an event in 1814–1815 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power |
| Orders in Council | a type of legislation in many countries, typically those in the Commonwealth of Nations |
| American Colonization Society | established in 1816 by Robert Finley of New Jersey, was the primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa |
| Republicanism | the ideology of governing a society or state as a republic, where the head of state is appointed by means other than heredity, often through elections |
| Interchangeable Parts | are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type |
| Henry Clay | As a leading war hawk in 1812, he favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation to war in the War of 1812. In 1824 he ran for president and lost, but threw his electoral votes to John Quincy Adams |
| Washington's Farewell Address | a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States". Washington wrote the letter near the end of his second term as President, before his retirement to his home Mount Vernon |
| Connecticut (Great) Compromise | was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution |
| Treaty of Alliance 1778 | the defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other |
| Republican Motherhood | "Republican Motherhood" is a 20th-century term for an attitude toward women's roles present in the emerging United States before, during, and after the American Revolution (c. 1654 to 1920). |
| Corrupt Bargain | In the 1824 election, no outright majority was attained and the process required resolution in the House of Representatives, whose Speaker and candidate, Henry Clay, gave his support to John Quincy Adams, and was then selected to be his Secretary of State |
| Lewis and Clark | also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River |
| Gibbon V Ogden | was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution |
| Treaty of Ghent | signed on 24 December 1814 in the Flemish city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War in the 1783 Treaty of Paris |
| XYZ Affair | a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving the United States and Republican France |
| War Hawks | a term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war, or whether to continue or escalate an existing war |
| Cotton Gin | a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation |
| Articles of Confederation | an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution |
| Three fifths Compromise | a compromise between South and North states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes |
| Deism | is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of God, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge |
| Revolution of 1800 | was the 4th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800 |
| Samuel Slater | was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution |
| Benjamin Banneker | was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught |
| Marbury V Madison | The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government |
| Shay's Rebellion | an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders |
| Northwest Ordinance | an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory |
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