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APUSH Ch.10-12 Terms

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Bill of Rights   show
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show organized the federal legal system, establishing the Supreme Court, federal district and circuit courts, and the office of the attorney general.  
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Funding at Par   show
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show transfer of debt from one party to another. In order to strengthen the union, the federal government assumed states' Revolutionary War debts in 1790, thereby tying the interests of wealthy lenders with those of the national government.  
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Tariff   show
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show chartered by Congress as part of Alexander Hamilton's financial program, the bank printed paper money and served as a depository for Treasury funds. It drew opposition from Jeffersonian Republicans, who argued that the bank was unconstitutional.  
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Whiskey Rebellion   show
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Reign of Terror   show
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Neutrality Proclamation   show
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Battle of Fallen Timbers   show
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Treaty of Greenville   show
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show On 11/19/94 representatives of the US & Great Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which sought to settle crazy issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence.  
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Pinckney's Treaty   show
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show George Washington's address at the end of his presidency, warning against "permanent alliances" with other nations. Washington did not oppose all union, but thought that the young, raw nation should forge unions only on a temporary basis.  
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show diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine.  
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Convention of 1800   show
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show acts passed by a Federalist Congress raising the residency requirement for citizenship fourteen years and granting the president the power to deport dangerous foreigners in times of peace.  
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show enacted by the Federalist Congress in an effort to clamp down on Jeffersonian opposition, the law made anyone convicted of defaming government officials or interfering with government policies liable to imprisonment and a heavy fine.  
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show written by James Madison and adopted by the legislature of Virginia in 1798; compact theory; written to nullify Alien and Sedition Acts; later used by southerners to support secession  
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show Jefferson's view of his election to presidency. Jefferson claimed that the election of 1800 represented a return to what he considered the original spirit of the Revolution.  
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Patronage   show
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show One of the last important laws passed by the expiring Federalist Congress. It created 16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices. This was Adams's last attempt to keep Federalists power in the new Republican Congress.  
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Midnight judges   show
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Marbury v. Madison   show
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Tripolitan War   show
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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Corps of Discovery   show
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Orders in Council   show
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Impressment   show
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Chesapeake affair   show
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show Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south Signed by Jefferson in 1807.  
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show 1810 - Forbade trade with Britain and France, but offered to resume trade with whichever nation lifted its neutral trading restrictions first.  
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War hawks   show
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Battle of Tippecanoe   show
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Sally Hemings   show
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show He was Jefferson's secretary. Jefferson and Gallatin believed that to pay the interest on debt, there would have to be taxes. Taxes would suck money from industrious farmers and put it in the hands of wealthy creditors.  
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Orders in Council   show
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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Alexander Hamilton   show
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show France threw back Austrian armies, declared itself a republic, Feds. nervous that they would have to have some bloodshed in US as well  
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show Hamilton, national bank, financial plan, federal gov., mostly pro-British, mostly merchants, manufacturers, shippers  
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Henry Knox   show
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show strict interpretation, states' rights, no national bank, mostly pro-French, mostly farmers  
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show became 2nd president, Jefferson = his vice, hated Hamilton, sensitive situation with France  
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show first Chief Justice of US, Jay's Treaty  
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show tied with Jefferson for president --> lost, killed Hamilton in duel while scheming with Feds. to make NY & New England secede, arrested for treason  
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Non-Intercourse Act   show
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show power of House of Rep. to make a legal statement of charges against an official  
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James Madison   show
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show Chief Justice, Supreme Court Justice, Fed., pro-capitalist, helped bolster power of gov. at expense of states  
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show 1810: permitted US trade with whole world and promised US restoration of trade to France/England if either dropped their commercial restrictions --> duped by Napoleon  
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Sacajawea   show
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James Wilkinson   show
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Impressment   show
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Tecumseh   show
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Samuel Chase   show
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Robert Livingston   show
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Toussant L'Ouverture   show
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Merriweather Lewis   show
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show young army officer who Jefferson sent to explore the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase with Merriweather Lewis  
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show United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812  
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Francis Scott Key   show
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show Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)  
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War of 1812   show
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show (1819) case that established the principle that the federal government was supreme over the state  
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Tariff of 1816   show
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show an economic regime by Henry Clay created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the U.S prosper by themselves This would eventually help America industrialize & become an economic power  
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Gibbons v. Ogden   show
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Monroe Doctrine   show
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show December 24, 1814 - Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border.  
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show Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S.  
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Era of Good Feelings   show
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