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us history 10/20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lewis and Clark | Gass played a part in that expansion as a participant in the ________ expedition commissioned by President Jefferson to explore the West. |
| Aaron Burr | However, since Jefferson's running mate, ______, received the same number of votes in the electoral college as Jefferson, the House of Representatives was called upon to choose between the two highest vote getters. |
| John Marshall | Adams had appointed _________, a staunch Federalist, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| Judiciary Act of 1801 | Just before leaving office, Adams had pushed through Congress the ____________, which increased the number of federal judges by 16. |
| Midnight Judges | These judges were known as ___________ because Adams signed their appointments late on the last day of his administration. |
| Marbury vs Madison | This argument led to one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of all time: ____________. |
| Judicial Review | The decision was later recognized as significant for affirming the principle of __________ --- the ability of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional. |
| Louisiana Purchase | With the __________, which included all land drained by the western tributaries of the Mississippi River, the United States more than doubled in size. |
| Sacagawea | Starting off with some 50 soldiers and woodsmen, the expedition later became smaller but added a Native American woman, _______, who served as interpreter and guide. |
| Impressment | One reason was the British policy of _________, the practice of seizing Americans at sea and "__________," or drafting, them into the British navy. |
| Embargo | Jefferson convinced Congress to declare an ______, a ban on exporting products to other countries. |
| Tecumseh | Like Little Turtle and chiefs from other groups, the Shawnee chief _______ believed that the only way for Native Americans to protect their homeland against intruding white settlers was to form a confederacy, a united Native American nation. |
| War Hawk | When it was discovered that the Native American confederacy was using arms from British Canada, a group of young congressmen from the South and the West known as the _________ called for war against Britain. |
| Andrew Jackson | At the same time, a general from Tennessee named ________ was winning a series of battles that gained him national fame. |
| Treaty of Ghent | The _____________, signed on Christmas Eve 1814, declared an ________, or the end to the fighting. |
| Armistice | The _____________, signed on Christmas Eve 1814, declared an ________, or the end to the fighting. |
| Eli Whitney | In a dramatic presentation in front of President John Adams in 1801, inventor _______ demonstrated the first musket made of _____________, parts that are exactly alike. |
| Interchangeable Parts | In a dramatic presentation in front of President John Adams in 1801, inventor _______ demonstrated the first musket made of _____________, parts that are exactly alike. |
| Industrial Revolution | These changes in manufacturing brought about an ____________________ --- social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production developed. |
| Cotton gin | Eli Whitney's invention of a __________ in 1793, however, had helped to change the South's course of development. |
| Henry Clay | Recognizing this, even former critics of the president --- including __________ and John C. Calhoun --- rallied behind it. |
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