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Chapter 10 Vocab-S.S
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who take 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 |
| Picked by John Adams, this Federalist became the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1801 and served for over three decades. | John Marshall |
| A case in 1803 in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish laws by declaring them unconstitutional. | Marbury V.S. Madison |
| Something that contradicts the law of the Constitution. | Unconstitutional |
| The principle that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution. | Judicial Review |
| The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. | Louisiana Purchase |
| A young officer/captain chosen by Jefferson to lead the expedition of the Louisiana Territory. | Meriwether Lewis |
| An old friend of M. Lewis, he was a lieutenant chosen by Lewis to select and oversee a volunteer force. | William Clark |
| A group led my M. Lewis and W. Clark who explored the lands of the Louisiana Purchase beginning in 1803. | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| A Shoshone woman, the wife of a French trapper, who assisted in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. | Sacagawea |
| He led an expedition in 1806 to explore the southern region of the Louisiana Territory while Lewis and Clark explored the northern part. | Zebulon Pike |
| The act of seizing by 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 ports. | Embargo Act of 1807 |
| A Shawnee Chief who vowed to stop the loss of native American land. | Tecumseh |
| Westerners who called for war against Britain. | War Hawk |
| An experienced officer who took charge of the building of an infant fleet on the shores 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 the Thames |
| A Washington lawyer who while detained on a British ship, watched an all-night battle. | Francis Scott Key |
| A treaty signed in 1814 which ended the War of 1812: no territory exchanged hands and trade disputes were not resolved. | Treaty of Ghent |
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