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Ch. 10 Vocab JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who take extreme political positions. | radical |
| An Act that appointed many Federalist judges making the jusidiciary firmly federal. | Judiciary Act of 1801 |
| A Federalist who was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | John Marshall |
| An important decision of the Marshall court, appointing William Marbury as Secretary of State, leading to conflict. | Marbury v. Madison |
| Contradicted the law of the Constitution. | unconstitutional |
| States that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution. | judicial review |
| Purchase offered by Napoleon to buy all of the Louisiana territory. | Louisiana Purchase |
| A young officer chosen by Jefferson to lead the expedition to the west. | Meriwether Lewis |
| Selected by Lewis to select and oversee a volunteer force. | William Clark |
| The Corps of Discovery became to be known as this. | Lewis and Clark expedition |
| A Shoshone woman who had very helpful (to Lewis and Clark)language skills and knowledge of geography. | Sacagawea |
| Led an expedition to find sources of the Arkansas and Red rivers. | Zebulon Pike |
| kidnapping | impressment |
| Passed by Congress saying that American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports, and closed American ports to British ships. | Embargo Act of 1807 |
| A Shawnee Chief who vowed to stop the loss of Native American land. | Tecumseh |
| Westerners of the U.S. who called for war with the British. | War Hawk |
| An expiernced officer who took charge of an infant fleet the Americans built on the shores of Lake Erie. | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| A victory by the Americans (Harrison) that put an end to the British threat to the Northwest. | Battle of the Thames |
| A Washington lawyer who was detained on a British ship watching the all-night battle. He expressed his pride of the U.S. with a poem that later became the national anthem. | Francis Scott Key |
| A Treaty that ended the War of 1812. | Treaty of Ghent |