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| Alexander Hamilton | First Secretary of the Treasury and leader of the Federalist Party |
| XYZ Affair | Involved a French demand for a bribe and a loan from the United States before France would discuss U.S.-French difficulties |
| War Hawks | Included Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun and others who wanted war with England in the early 1800s; mainly from the West and the South |
| Erie Canal | Completed in 1825 it opened the west for development and increased trade |
| Treaty of Ghent | Signed in Belguim in Dec. 1814 to end the War of 1812 |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Said the national bank was constitutional and that the national government was supreme over the state |
| American System | Proposed by Henry Clay it hoped to unite the various sections of the U.S. economically |
| Battle of New Orleans | Won by Gen. Andrew Jackson at the end of the War of 1812 |
| Jay's Treaty | 1794 agreement that failed to address many of the important problems between England and the U.S. |
| Samuel Slater | introduced the factory system to the U.S. in 1790 in Rhode Island |
| Marbury v. Madison | established the idea of judicial review in 1803 |
| John Marshall | Important early chief justice whose decisions helped increase the power of the national government |
| Embargo Act | Passed by Jefferson and Congress in 1807 to try to get France and England to recognize American neutral rights at sea |
| Dartmouth College case | Established the sanctitiy of contracts that would later be important for the growth of corporations |
| Proclamation of Neutrality | Issued by George Washington in 1793 to keep the U.S. from getting involved in French wars in 1793 |
| Farewell Address | Written by Washington before leaving office and helped establish the nation's foreign policy for the future |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the Star Spangled Banner as he watch the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 |
| Louisiana Purchase | Getting this was a problem for Jefferson because he practice strict construction |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | ruled that only the national government could control interstate commerce |
| Whiskey Rebellion | In 1794 this showed that the new national government could enforce that laws |
| Quasi-War | In 1798, the U.S. and France were fighting at sea yet neither had declared war |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | Passed in 1798 during the Adams administration to silence criticism of the government and to keep the goverment from getting involved in a war with France |
| Citizen Edmund Genet | Sent by the French to seek U.S. help fighting against England and Spain |
| Tecumseh | Led a Pan-Indian movement before the War of 1812 and sought to reject white culture and to push whites off of Indian land |
| Pinckney's Treaty | In 1795, this got Spain to allow the U.S. to use the lower Mississippi River and to have the right of deposit at New Orleans |
| National Bank | It was the debate over the constitutionality of this that led to the creation of our first political parties |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | In 1819, this ceded Florida to the U.S. for $5 million |
| National Road | Built in 1811, this connected Maryland to Illinois |
| Era of Good Feeling | Period after the War of 1812 from 1816-1820 in which the Federalist Party died out |
| James Madison | President during the War of 1812 |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 | Used by Napoleon to get the U.S. and England into a war |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper |
| John Deere | invented the steel plow |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 message that warned Europe that the Western Hemisphere was closed to colonization |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | 1794 victory over Native Americans that opened the Northwest Territory to settlement |
| Hartford Convention | Meeting of Federalists opposed to the War of 1812; discussed the use of nullification and secession |
| Thomas Jefferson | first Secretary of State and leader of the Democrat-Republicans |
| Francis Lowell | He and other investors established the first factory in America the placed the entire manufacturing process under one roof |
| Aaron Burr | Vice-president who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
| 12th amendment | Added to the Constitution to resolve the problem that arose as a result of the Election of 1800 |
| Baltimore and Ohio | The first railroad in America; opened in 1830 |
| judicial review | the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional |
| Bonus Bill | proposed using money from rechartering the national bank to allow states to make internal improvements; vetoed by Monroe |
| impressment | practice whereby the British would stop American ships and seize men the British claimed were deserters |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | written by Jefferson and Madison; served to establish the idea of states' rights and nullification |
| Federalist Party | favored a strong national government, broad construction, and represented the wealthy and well-educated |
| Democrat-Republicans | strict construction, represented the ordinary Americans |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts |
| Chesapeake | U.S. ship fired upon by the HMS Leopard in 1807 and had some U.S. sailors impressed from the ship |
| John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State under President Monroe; wrote the Monroe Doctrine |
