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| Assimilation | US government policy after the revolution, where Native Americans were encouraged to join white society (farming, religion, family) |
| John Adams | 2nd president of the USA, famous for peace with France and the Alien and Sedition Acts |
| John Quincy Adams | Son of the 2nd president who joined the Democratic Republican Party |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | A series of laws overtly designed to protect America from a "foreign threat," but covertly designed to destroy the Democratic Republicans |
| Assumption | Hamilton's plan for the national government to "assume" the debts of the states from the Revolutionary war |
| Barbary Pirates | Jefferson authorized the navy and marines to attack these guys because they were harassing American shipping and demanding tribute |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | A huge defeat for the western confederacy of Indians in 1784 |
| Battle of New Orleans | The most famous American vicotry of the war, which actually occured AFTER the war had ended. It made Andrew Jackson a national hero. |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | Governor William henry Harrison of Indiana scored a preemptive strike with this victory over Tecumseh and the new western confederacy |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the constitution... |
| Aaron Burr | TJ's vice president who became infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton |
| Cabinet | Created by Congress in the early 1790s, these guys help the president carry out his duties |
| Dartmouth College v Woodward | A Supreme Court decision that ruled states cannot violate private contracts |
| Democratic-Republicans | The party that coalesced around Thomas Jefferson. It favored state power and strict constructionism |
| Embargo Act | Passed by Congress in 1806, this was an attempt by Jefferson to force Britain and France to stop messing with American shipping |
| Era of Good Feelings | James Monroe's presidency 1817 to 1825, where it seemed like everyone got along, and everyone was a Democratic-Republican |
| Federalist Party | The party that coalsced around Alexander Hamilton. It favored the national government and a loose reading of the constitution |
| Fletcher v Peck | A Supreme Court decision that protected private property and contracts by not letting Georgia invalidate the sale of 35 million acres of land |
| French Revolution | Starting in 1789 and continuing into the 1790s, this event divided Americans |
| Gibbons v Ogden | A Supreme Court decision where John Marshall invalidated a state monoploy on New York's waterways because the FEDERAL government controls interstate commerce |
| Hartford Convention | A meeting of New England Federalists in 1814 that discussed secession and constitutional amendments to increase the influence of the New England states, which had opposed the War of 1812 and the policies that led up to it |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the USA who bought Louisana and implemented the Embargo Act |
| Jay's Treaty | Peace with Britain...unpopular with DR's because it was seen as being pro-British...it recognized Britain's right to seize American ships |
| Judiciary Act | The law that saw Congress set up the Supreme Court. |
| Louisiana Purchase | Bopught by TJ in 1803...was it constitutional? |
| Marbury v Madison | In this case, John Marshall claimed the power of Judicial Review for the Supreme Court |
| John Marshall | The federalist Supreme Court Chief Justice who strengthened the power of the Supreme Court and the national government from 1801 to 1835 |
| McCulloch v Maryland | States can't tax a national bank..."The power to tax is the power to destroy" |
| Monroe Doctrine | Foreign policy statement by the US in 1823, which warned Europe not to interfere in the Western hemisphere |
| 1st National Bank | Set up by Hamilton in 1791. Jefferson and his followers believed it to be unconstitutional |
| Proclamation of Neutrality 1793 | Washington announced this in 1793...technically, the US should have sided with the french under the terms of the 1778 alliance |
| Protective Tariffs | Tariffs that are designed to protect fledgling industries rather than just raise money |
| Redemption | Hamilton's plan to pay FULL price to bond holders who had financed America's national and foreign debt during the revolution |
| [Hamilton's] Report on Public Credit | Hamilton's official essay that explained the nmeed for his financial plan |
| Revenue Tariffs | Proposed by hamilton in 1791...they would raise money so the government could pay interest on the bonds it had sold |
| Revolution of 1800 | Jefferson referred to his election as this |
| Tecumseh | An Indian leader who revived Western resistance to white settlement in Indiana during the early 1800s |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Formerly ended the Revolutionary war |
| Treaty of Fort Stanix 1784 | By this treaty, the Iroquois gave up much of their territory in NY and PA in the face of violent threats by the US government |
| Treaty of Grenville 1795 | After losing the battle of Fallen Timbers, NW Indians were forced to give up a large chunck of modern day Ohio |
| Treaty of Ghent | Formerly ended the War of 1812. The treaty restored the pre-war borders of the USA and failed to deal with the issue of impressment |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Jefferson and Madison's response to the unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts |
| War Hawks | Rookie western and southern politicians who clamored for war with Great Britain in 1811 because they saw the British as the obstacle to their nation's expansion |
| War of 1812 | Fought between the USA and Great Britain over shipping issues and westward issues |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Angry Pennsylvanian farmers rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax...the rebellion was easily put down and demonstrated the strength of the new national government |
| American Colonization Society | Formed in 1817 to solve the growing slavery issue...the society planned to free slaves and send them back to Africa |
| Business Cycle | The hallmark of capitalism...periods of boom and bust |
| Canals | Man-made waterways that link rivers to enable easier transportation |
| Fugitive Slave Act 1787 | A compromise of the Constitutional Convention that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners. Many nothern states passed laws that got around this and it was hardly ever enforced |
| 2nd Great Awakening | A series of religious revivals that began in the 1790s in New England and spread to frontier areas |
| Liberia | The country founded by the American Colonization society...where the freed slaves would be sent |
| Missouri Compromise | Passed in 1820 to balance the number of free and slave states in the Senate |
| 2nd National Bank | Established by Congress in 1816 after the War of 1812 showed a need for a national banking system |
| Prosser's Rebellion | A failed slave rebellion that ended all talk of freeing slaves in the Upper South |
| Republican Motherhood | Women were believed to be the vehicle for transmitting Republican ideals to the children of the Republic |
| Slave Trade Compromise | Rather than face a fight in Philadelphi in 1787, the Founding Fathers agreed to allow the slave trade to continue until 1808 when Congress would reexamine the issue |
| Tallmadge Amendment | Proposed by a new York senator, this would have prevented more slaves from entering Missouri AND provided for the gradual emancipation of the slaves already there |
| Turnpikes | Privately owned roads where people who used them were charged a fee |
| Unitarianism | A New England Enlightenment strain of Christian, which rejected the Trinity |
| Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | Disestablished the Church of Enmgland from Virginia |
| Noah Webster | An American who pushed for greater schooling in the country, so the US could develop its own literary culture that would distinguish it from Europe |
