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soc studs ch10 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| people who take extreme political positions | radicals |
| act of which Adams had appointed as many federalist judges as he could between the election of 1800 and Jeffersons inauguration in 1801 | judiciary act of 1801 |
| 45 year old federalist who's appointed chief justice of the supreme court | John Marshall |
| the most important decisions of the Marshall Court | Marbury v. Madison |
| contradicted the law of the constitution | unconstitutional |
| principle states that the supreme court has the final say in interpreting the constitution | judicial review |
| the 1803 purchase of the of the Louisiana territory from France | Louisiana Purchase |
| Captain that lead an expedition | Meriwether Lewis |
| volunteer to the expedition which he was a skilled mapmaker and outdoorsman | William Clark |
| Corps of Discovery in the United States | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| 17 year old Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped the expedition | Sacagawea |
| leader of an expedition to find the source of the Arkansas and Red rivers | Zebulon Pike |
| kidnapping of American sailors | impressment |
| act of which american ships are not allowed to sail to foreign ports; closed American ports | Embargo act of 1807 |
| Shawnee chief who vowed to stop the loss of native american land | Tecumseh |
| Westerners who called war against the British | War Hawks |
| officer who took charge of an instant fleet | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| battle which put to the end to the British threat to the Northwest | Battle of the Thames |
| washington lawyer who watched the all-night battle | Francis Scott Key |
| treaty which ended the war of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |