Social Studies Test
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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Impressment | the act of seizing by force
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Embargo Act of 1807 | an act that stated that American ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports, and it also closed American ports to British ships
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Tecumseh | a Shawnee chief, that vowed to stop the loss of Native American land
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War Hawk | a westerner who supported the War of 1812
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Oliver Hazard Perry | an experience officer, that took charge of the infant fleet
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Battle of the Thames | an American victory over the British in the War of 1812, which ended the British threat to the Northwest Territory
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Francis Scott Key | a Washington lawyer, that watched the all-night battle of the war between the United States and France
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Treaty of Ghent | treaty, signed in 1814, which ended the War of 1812; no territory exchanged hands and trade disputes were not resolved
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radical | a person who takes extreme political positions
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Judiciary Act of 1801 | a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill most of the new spots with Federalists
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John Marshall | federalist who served as Chief Justice for over three decades. Under Marshall, the Supreme Court upheld federal authority and strengthened federal courts.
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unconstitutional | something that contradicts the law of the Constitution
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Marbury vs. Madison | an 1803 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish laws by declaring them unconstitutional
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Judicial review | the principle that the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution
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Louisiana Purchase | the 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France
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Meriwether Lewis | a young officer that was chosen to lead an expedition to the Louisiana territory
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William Clark | oversaw a volunteer force, which they called the Corps of Discovery
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Lewis and Clark Expedition | a group led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who explored the lands of the Louisiana Purchase beginning in 1803
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Sacagawea | a Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography would be helpful to Lewis and Clark
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Zebulon Pike | a man whose mission was to find the sources of the Arkansas and Red rivers
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