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History 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| XYZ Affair â diplomatic crisis between Britain and France | |
| William Henry Harrison â the 9th president, only served for 31 months | |
| Whiskey Rebellion â was a violent tax protest in western Pennsylvania and Appalachia. It was the first federal excise tax on a domestic product, enacted to help pay off Revolutionary War debt | |
| War of 1812 â a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain. No clear winner but conflict concluded with the Treaty of Ghent | |
| Virginia Plan â a proposal for a new national government drafted by James Madison. It proposed representation based on population | |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions â statements against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Thomas Jeffaerson and James Maddison | |
| Valley Forge â the winter encampment of general George Washingtonâs Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war | |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 â ended the American Revolutionary war | |
| Treaty of Ghent â ended the war of 1812 | |
| Three-fifths of a free person â dictated that three out of every enslaved individual would be counted when determining a stateâs total population | |
| Thomas Paine â founding father and wrote Common Sense | |
| Thomas Jefferson â a founding father and the 3rd president of the United States. Primary author of the Declaration of Independence | |
| The âGreat Compromiseâ â an agreement that established the two-house legislative structure of the U.S. Congress | |
| Tenskwatawa â Tecumseh's brother, the great prophet | |
| Tecumseh â one of the great Native American war leaders | |
| Simon Bolivar â the liberator | |
| Shaysâs Rebellion â rebellion of veterans due to loans and debts | |
| Second Continental Congress â a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that functioned as the de facto national government of the U.S. during the American Revolutionary War | |
| Sacagawea â helped with the Lewis and Clark expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives | |
| Robert Morris â financier of the American revolutionary war | |
| Robert Fulton â steam engines | |
| Olive Branch petition â one last attempt to create peace between Britain | |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 â established a 3-stage system for governing territories and admitting them as equal states | |
| New Jersey Plan â plan made for the smaller states to get equal representation | |
| Monroe Doctrine â written by President James Monroe declaring that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to future European colonization and intervention | |
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) â established the principle of judicial review, granting federal courts the power to declare legislative acts unconstitutional | |
| Loyalist sentiment â the political and social commitment of roughly 15% to 20% of American colonists who opposed independence and wanted to remain subjects of the British Crown | |
| Louisiana Purchase â Thomas Jefferson made a plan to buy some land. Thought it wasnât constitutional | |
| Lewis and Clark expedition â Sacagawea helped them in their first expedition | |
| Leopard and Chesapeake affair â British had pulled over an American War ship | |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 â created a standardized system for surveying, selling, and settling western public lands north of the Ohio River | |
| John Marshall â U.S. Supreme Court justice | |
| John Adams â the first vice president of the U.S. and the second President of the U.S. | |
| James Monroe â Monroe Doctrine | |
| James Madison â father of the constitution. Had a central role in drafting the U.S. constitution and authoring the bill of rights | |
| Impressment â the practice of forcing unwilling men into military or naval service through intimidation and violence | |
| House of Representatives â The lower chamber of Congress, with representation based on state representation | |
| Hessian mercenaries â German auxiliary soldiers leased by the British Crown from various German principalities to fight in the American Revolutionary War. | |
| Henry Knox â first secretary of war |