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APUSH Review #3

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show He fought in the Revolutionary War. He also published Federalists papers.   He set the standards as the first Secretary of Treasury. He helped sustain early America, particularly during the war of 1812.  
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John Jay   He wrote the Jay’s Treaty. He became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.   show
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Bill of Rights   show It set the initial groundwork for the constitution and preserving the basic rights for all Americans.  
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show He was a member of the original Continental Congress. He served as a secretary of State from 1801-1809 and became the fourth President of the United States.   He was a member of the original Continental Congress. He served as a secretary of State from 1801-1809 and became the fourth President of the United States.  
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show The idea of a government-owned bank to provide for the entire country.   Hamilton established the first one, and it was a much-debated subject during the Jacksonian Era.  
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Protective Tariffs (1792)   Tariffs advocated by Hamilton to strengthen internal discoveries, inventions, and overall improvements in America.   show
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Thomas Jefferson   He drafted the Declaration of Independence. He became the first Secretary of State and later stated the trend of Secretary of states being elected for President, becoming America’s third President.   show
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King Louis XVI   The king of France during the American Revolution.   show
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Napoleon   He was great dictator and conqueror of France during the early 1800s.   show
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Edmond Charles Genet   show He made it hard for Republicans to support the French Revolution.  
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show The British would evacuate Northwestern posts by 1796 and pay damages for the seizures of American ships and cargoes. For that, they would be given neutral rights and would gain most-favored-nation.   It was very unpopular while it settled the issues with the British though it was very one-sided. Still, it was passed in June of 1795.  
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show A battle in the Northwest Territory between the Indians and Canadian militia vs. American troops led by General Wayne. Victory went to the troops.   The Treaty gave America rights to the Southern quarter of the Northwest Territory and enclaves at the sites of Vincennes, Detroit, and Chicago.  
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Treaty of Greenville   show Gave America rights to the Southeastern quarter of the Northwest Territory and enclaves at the sites of Vincennes, Detroit, and Chicago at the cost of $10,000 annuity.  
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show Rebellion led after the taxation on liquor that angered farmers in the backcountry. General Henry Lee led 13,000 men to disperse the group and did so with very few casualties.   The government gained reputation and strength by defending its rule of law and federal authority.  
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Pinckney’s Treaty   He was an U.S minister. He won acceptance of an American boundary at the thirty-first parallel.   show
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Land Act of 1796   Retained the 640-acre minimum size mandated by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 while doubling the price per acre to $2 and requiring that the full amount is paid within a year.   show
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show Famous hunter who led settlers to Kentucky.   Built a settlement named Boonesborough. Found the Warriors Path, which led to Kentucky.  
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Wilderness Road   show Opened a road into Kentucky for it to be settled.  
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Washington’s Farwell address   Washington’s farewell address when he stepped down from his two terms as President focused on domestic policy and of unity among Americans in backing their new government. He decried the bad effects of sectionalism and partisanship   show
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Election of 1796   show John Adams won, becoming the second President of the United States.  
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show A member of the continental Congress. He was the first vice president and later became the second President of the United States.   He passed the Alien and Sedition acts.  
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show Efforts to negotiate with the French where three French commisioners were named X, Y, and Z and demanded bribes to continue negotiation talks.   Raised a lot of popularity for Federalists.  
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Talleyrand   French Foreign Minister during the XYZ Affair that refused to negotiate with the American negotiators.   show
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show The department that controls the American Navy established in 1798.   Gave the American Navy more power.  
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Alien and Sedition Acts   show Gave the president much power over immigrants.  
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions   Jefferson feared prosecution for sedition so he secretly penned a series of resolutions. It was a brilliant formulation of the extreme states rights view regarding the union.   show
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Election of 1800   show Republic passed a major test when power was peacefully transferred from the conservative federalists to the more liberal Jeffersonian. The first in which Federalist & Democratic Republicans functioned as two national political parties, Adams lost.  
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show Thomas Jefferson’s first-term vice president. He joined with a group of federalist extremists to plot the secession of New England & New York.   Burr’s insurrectionary brashness demonstrated that it was one thing for U.S. to purchase large expenses of western territory but quite another for it to govern them effectively.  
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John Marshall   show Marshall greatly magnified the authority of the court. He also inserted the keystone into the arch that supports the tremendous power of the Supreme Court in American life.  
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Republicans   show Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized these factions into a party and helped define its ideology in favor of yeomen farmers, strict construction of the Constitution, and a weaker federal government  
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Federalists   a political party during the First Party System in the United States, from 1792 to 1816   show
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Marbury V. Madison   Supreme Court case that questioned whether or not Marbury should have been served his papers to be a judge   show
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Judicial Review   Established by the Marbury v. Madison case, it asserted that the Supreme Court could declare an act of Congress to be unconstitutional.   show
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Barbary Pirates   The name given to several renegade countries on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa who demanded tribute in exchange for refraining from attacking ships in the Mediterranean   show
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Louisiana Purchase   show The Constitution did not give the federal government the power to buy land, so Jefferson used loose construction to justify the purchase  
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show Meriwether Lewis was Jefferson’s personal secretary and William Clark was a young army officer. They explored the Northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.   From their expedition they brought back a rich harvest of the scientific observations, maps, knowledge of the Indians in the region, and hair-raising wilderness adventure stories.  
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show Jefferson was reelected with 162 electoral votes to only 14 votes for his federalist opponent.   Jefferson’s first administration withered under the blasts of the new storm that broke in Europe.  
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show After the duel, Burr fled New York and joined a group of mercenaries in the southern Louisiana territory region. The U.S. arrested them as they moved towards Mexico. Burr claimed that they had intended to attack Mexico   Burr was tried for treason, and although Jefferson advocated Burr’s punishment, the Supreme Court acquitted Burr  
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show The forcible enlistment of sailors. It was a crude form of conscription that the British, among others, had employed for over four centuries.   British seamen often deserted to join the American merchant marines. The British would board American vessels in order to retrieve the deserters, and often seized any sailor who could not prove that he was an American citizen and not British.  
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Chesapeake Affair   show The Chesapeake affair was one additional grievance leading toward the War of 1812.  
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show Embargo Act of 1807, passed Dec. 22, 1807, by the U.S. Congress in answer to the British orders in council restricting neutral shipping and to Napoleon’s restrictive Continental System.   Not unexpectedly, it failed to bring pressure on Britain and France. In 1810 Macon’s Bill No. 2 replaced it.  
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Election of 1808   show Having served Jefferson faithfully as secretary of state for eight years, Madison was rewarded with strong Republican backing in 1808. The electoral totals were not close.  
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show A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.   The war strengthened American nationalism and encouraged the growth of industry.  
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Macon’s Bill Number 2   show This bill replaced the non-intercourse act but failed to stop the seizure of ships.  
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Tecumseh   A Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as the Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes. An American army led by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 defeated the tribes   show
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Battle of Tippecanoe   show William Henry Harrison emerged with a reputation as the hero of Tippecanoe, an image that he would use to his political advantage in later years.  
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General William Henry Harrison   Nominated for president in 1835 as a military hero who the conservation politicians hoped to be able to control, he ran surprisingly well against Van Buren in 1836. Four years later, he defeated Van Buren but caught pneumonia and died on April 4, 1841   show
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War Hawks   twenty Democratic Republicans who persuaded Congress into supporting a declaration of war against Britain. These young, vocal members from the South and the western U.S. were voted into the House during mid-term congressional elections in 1810.   show
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show In March 1814, Scott was brevetted brigadier general. In July 1814, Scott commanded the First Brigade of the American army in the Niagara campaign, winning the battle of Chippewa decisively   Scott earned the nickname of "Old Fuss and Feathers" for his insistence of military appearance and discipline in the U.S. Army, which consisted mostly of volunteers. In his own campaigns, General Scott preferred to use a core of U.S. Army Regulars  
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show Francis Scott Key saw Fort McHenry hold out during the night against a British attack. He wrote the poem “Star Spangled Banner” about the experience of seeing the U.S. flag still flying above the fort in the morning   He wrote the Star Spangled Banner.  
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show 7th President of the United States of America   President Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the national bank.  
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Battle of New Orleans   January, 1815 - A large British invasion force was repelled by Andrew Jackson's troops at New Orleans. About 2500 British soldiers were killed or captured, while in the American army only 8 men were killed.   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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Hartford Convention   1814 – A convention of New England merchants who opposed the Embargo and other trade restriction, and the War of 1812. They proposed some Amendments to the Constitution and advocated the right of states to nullify federal laws.   show
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show During Jackson's presidency, this was a struggle between those who wanted to keep the national bank in operation and those who wanted to abolish it. Jackson and states' rights advocates opposed the national bank   The bank was defended by Nicholas Biddle and Henry Clay, the National Republicans, the wealthy, and larger merchants, who felt that local banks credit policies were irresponsible and would lead to a depression  
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John C. Calhoun   show Negotiated several key political deals.  
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Henry Clay   A Senator and a representative from Kentucky; born in the district known as “the Slashes” Hanover Country, VA.   show
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show A great American orator. He gave several important speeches, first as a lawyer, then as a Congressman. He was a major representative for the North.   He helped the North.  
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show This protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.   Improved the sale of goods sold in the U.S.  
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show The first highway built by the federal government. Constructed during 1825-1850, it stretched from Pennsylvania to Illinois.   It was a major overland shipping route and an important connection between the North and West.  
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James Monroe   show Author of the Monroe Doctrine. Monroe's Presidency was marked by a disappearance of partisan politics, after the politically charged War of 1812, and came to be known as the Era of Good Feelings  
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Election of 1816   show The election campaign of 1816 itself was highly one sided. The early opposition of the Federalists to the War of 1812 had, for all practical purposes, destroyed the party.  
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show A name for President Monroe’s two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. Since the Federalist Party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party and no partisan conflicts.   Filled with massive improvements for America.  
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show Set the border between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th parallel (or latitude). Also affirmed U.S. rights to fisheries along Newfoundland and Labrador.   Improved fishing and ended several disputes.  
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show The treaty provided for the cession of Florida to the United States for payment of $5,000,000.   Added another state to the union.  
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Panic of 1819   show The collapse of the Bank of America caused a surplus of products.  
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Missouri Compromise   Admitted Missouri as a slave state and at the same time admitted Maine as a free state. Declared that all territory north of the 36°30” latitude would become free states, and all territory south of that latitude would become slave states.   show
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McMulloch vs. Maryland   show The case became the legal cornerstone of subsequent expansions of federal power.  
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Implied Powers Cause   The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) grants to Congress the power to enact laws to carry out the “enumerated powers” (Clauses 1-17), which are specifically assigned to the federal government.   show
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show (1819), a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the charters of business corporations are contracts and are guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution   Chief Justice Marshall’s opinion emphasized that the term “contract” referred to transactions involving individual property rights, not to “the political relations between the government and its citizens.”  
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Gibbons vs. Ogden   : In Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824) the Supreme Court defined Congress’s constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce   show
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Transcontinental Treaty   John Quincy Adams, secretary of state under President James Monroe, negotiated the treaty with Luis de Onis of Spain.   show
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Monroe Doctrine   1823 – Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S.   show
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