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chapter 10 vocab :)
chapter 10...vocab...duh
Question | Answer |
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A person who takes extreme political positions. | Radical |
A law that increased the number of federal judges,allowing president John Adams to fill most of the new spots with federalists. | judiciary act of 1801 |
A 45-year old federalist chief justice, was the judge of the Mabury v. Madison case. | John Marshall. |
An 1803 case in which the supreme court ruled that it had the power to abolish laws by declaring them unconstitutional. | Marbury v. Madison |
Something that contradicts the law of the constitution. | Unconstitutional |
The principle that the supreme court had the final say in interpreting the constitution. | Judicial review |
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. | Louisiana purchase |
An explorer from the Louis and Clark expedition. | Meriwether Louis |
An explorer from the Louis and Clark expedition. | William Clark |
A group led by Meriwether Louis and William Clark who explored the lands of the Louisiana purchase beginning in 1803. | The Louise and Clark expedition. |
A Shoshone women who guided Louise and Clark on their expedition. | Sacagawea |
An explorer who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition of the northern Louisiana territory. | Zebulen Pike |
The act of seizing y force. | Impressment |
An act that stated that American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports, and it also closed American ports to British ships | Embargo act of 1807 |
An Indian chief who tried to bring the natives together. | Tecumseh |
A westerner who supported the war of 1812. | War Hawk |
An officer who won at the battle of lake Erie. | Oliver Hazard Perry |
An american victory over the British in the war of 1812, Which ended the British threat to the Northwest territory. | Battle of Thames |
The creator of the national anthem. | Francis Key Scott |
Treaty, signed in 1812, which ended the war of 1812; no territory exchanged hands and trade disputes were not resolved. | Treaty of Ghent |