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Chapter 10 SS Vocab
10 Vocabulary for Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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people who take extreme political positions | radical |
Adams could appoint as many federalist judges as he could between the election of 1800 and Jefferson's inauguration of 1801 | Judiciary Act of 1801 |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | John Marshall |
when Marbury sued Madison for refusing to give him the job of the Secretary of State | Marbury v. Madison |
contradicts the law of the constitution | unconstitutional |
states that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution | judicial review |
when America spent 15 million dollars on money from Spain for 3 cents an acre. | Louisiana Purchase |
led the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Merriweather Lewis |
selected and oversaw a volunteer force for the Lewis and Clark expedition | William Clark |
expedition across the country to explore the Louisiana territory | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
helped on the Lewis and CLark expedition | Sacagawea |
led an expedition to find sources of the Arkansas and Red rivers. | Zebulon Pike |
kidnapping | impressment |
American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports | Embargo Act of 1807 |
a Shawnee chief who vowed to stop the loss of NA land | Tecumseh |
Westerners who called for war | War Hawk |
experienced officer who took charge of the infant fleet on Lake Erie | Oliver Hazard Perry |
General Harrison attacked retreating British in Canada | Battle of the Thames |
wrote the National Anthem | Francis Scott Key |
ended the war of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |