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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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show payment of debts, such as government bonds, at face value. In 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposed that the federal government pay its Revolutionary war debts in full in order to bolster the nation's credit.  
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Assumption   show
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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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show ten-month period of brutal repression when some 40,000 individuals were executed as enemies of the French Revolution.  
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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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Jay's Treaty   show
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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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show agreement to formally dissolve the United States' treaty with France, originally signed during the Revolutionary War. The problems posed by America's peacetime union with France backed to Americans' old conflict to entangling union with foreign powers  
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Alien Laws   show
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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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Revolution of 1800   show
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Patronage   show
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Judiciary of 1801   show
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Midnight judges   show
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show The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution  
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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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show Battle between Americans and Native Americans. Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a cause to the War of 1812  
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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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show 3rd President of the US chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Virginian, architect, author, governor, and president. Wrote the Declaration of Independence.  
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show Washington's Secretary of Treasury, Federalist, urged paying off national debt - whiskey tax, national treasury, financial plan  
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French Revolution   show
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Federalists   show
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show Washington's Secretary of War  
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Jeffersonian Republicans   show
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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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Aaron Burr   show
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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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show became president in 1809, didn't appear a strong leader, tricked by Napoleon into War of 1812  
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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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show Shoshoni First American woman who aided Lewis & Clark  
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James Wilkinson   show
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Impressment   show
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show Leader of First American tribes who tried to fight American settlers by unifying and organizing the Indians  
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Samuel Chase   show
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show He bought New Orleans & all the French territory west of the Mississippi River from Napoleon for $15 mil. He was only supposed to negotiate for a small part of New Orleans for 10 million so Jefferson was upset when he heard about Livingston's deal  
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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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Missouri Compromise   show
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War of 1812   show
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McCulloh v. Maryland   show
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Tariff of 1816   show
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American System   show
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show involved N.Y. trying to grant a monopoly on waterborne trade between N.Y. and N.J. Judge Marshal, of the Supreme Court,reminded the state of N.Y. that the Constitution gives Congress the control of interstate commerce.  
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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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Battle of New Orleans   show
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Era of Good Feelings   show
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