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Chapter10
Jefferson Era
| Term(s) | Def. |
|---|---|
| George Washington | federalist, 1st president |
| Jon Adams | federalist, 2nd president |
| Thomas Jefferson | democratci-republican- 3rd president |
| James Madison | demacratic-republican, 4th president |
| Radical | person who takes an extreme political position |
| Aaron Burr | Tied with Jefferson for president |
| Alexander Hamilton | killed by Aaron Burr in a duel |
| the nickle | monticello is seen on ___ |
| Monticello | Jefferson's home that he designed by himself |
| Jefferson requested 3 accomplishments to be listed on his tombstone: | author of the declaration of Independence, the law for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia |
| John Marshall | appointe by John Adams to be Chief Justice after John Jay resigned. Served for 3 decades |
| Mississippi River | After the American Revolution, the western boundry of the U.S. was____ |
| Rocky Mountains | After the Louisiana Purchase, American Territory stretched west to the ___ |
| 1803 | In this year, president Jefferson bought Louisiana Territory. |
| Napoleon | Jefferson bought Louisiana Territory from Emperor ______ |
| fifteen million dollars | France traded ___for the Louisiana Territory |
| strict construction | Jefferson believed in ____ |
| William Clark | Meriwether Lewis and ___ explored the newly purchased land in 1803 |
| Corps of Discovery | Lewis and Clark's expedition was also known as this: |
| St. Louis | Lewis and Clark began their expedition in ____ (also know as the "gateway to the west") |
| Sacagawea | The Indian guide on Lewis and Clark's trip was: |
| York | Clark's slave who came with him on his trip |
| Zebulon Pike | ___ explored the Southern part of the Louisiana Territory and got a famous mountain in Colorado named for himself |
| Fur | Because of Zebulon's explorations, Americans because more interested in the ___ trade |
| Journals | Lewis and Clark kept ___ that later provied valuble information about the west |
| Desert | Not many people wanted to rush to the Great Plains because Pike said it was a _____ |
| Farm | People did not want to ____ in the Great Plains because of how Pike described it. |
| Touissant L'Ouverture | led a slave rebellion on the french controlled island of Hispaniola (Haiti) which helped convince Napoleon to sell Louisiana |
| Money | Napoleon needed___ for his war with Britain |
| Secretary of State | Marbury sued ______: James Madison |
| Whiskey | While president, Jefferson ended the tax on _____ |
| Alien & Sedition Acts | While president, Jefferson allowed the __________________ to expire |
| pardoned | Jefferson ____________ those charged with: Alien & Sedition Acts and Whiskey Tax |
| employees | Jefferson reduced the number of federal _________ |
| France | _____ lost New Orleans to Spain the the French and Indian War |
| Secret Treaty | New Orleans was turned back over to France in a __________ |
| Stephan Decatur | sent to attack a US ship called the Philadelphia which had been captured |
| Tripoli | Where was the Philadelphia captured by African Pirates? Off the coast of _____ |
| Impressment | kidnapping of American sailors to work on British Ships |
| coercion | the practice of forcing someone to act in a certain way by use of pressure or threats |
| Embargo Act | Hurt the US more than Europe, preventing American ships from sailing to foreign ports and closing American ports to British ships, Jefferson passed this act. |
| War of 1812 | James Madison was president during ___ |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee shief who tried to unite the Native American tribes in the Northwest territory |
| William Henrey Harrison | Governor of the Indiana Territory |
| Tippecanoe | William Henrey Harrison defeated the indians at the battle of ________ |
| Henrey Cley | War Hawk from Kentucky |
| British Support of Native American Resistance | Impressment of American sailors, British interference in American shipping, and _____________ led to the war of 1812 |
| Dolly Madison | rescued an original copy of the Declaration of Independence and a portrait of George Washington from the President's House prior to the British attack on the city during War of 1812 |
| Baltimore | city burned by the british in 1812 |
| Atlantic Ocean | ________ & Gulf of Mexico were blockaded by the british during the War of 1812 |
| Francis Scott Key | Wrote the national anthem |
| Star spangled Banner | another name for the national anthem |
| 1931 | The Star Spangled banner did not become the national anthem until |
| Erie | Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British on Lake ____ |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | "We have met the enemy and they are ours" |
| Constitution | nicknamed : Old Ironsides |
| Andrew Jackson | led outnumbered americans to victory at the Battle of New Orleans and became a national hero |
| Treaty of Ghent | was late in the mail, document that ended the War of 1812 |
| Winner | There was no clear to the war of 1812 |
| land | No _____ changed hands because of the war of 1812 |