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| Napoleon | Emperor of France who offered Louisiana to the United States |
| Toussaint L’Ouverture | slave who led a slave rebellion that overthrew French rule in Haiti in 1791 |
| Louisiana Purchase | purchased by the Jefferson administration from France for 15 million dollars |
| Essex Junto | group of New England politicians who became separatist in the early 1800s and favored secession of New England |
| Hamilton-Burr Duel | An American Vice-President shot and killed a former Treasury Secretary in July of 1804 at Weehawken |
| Lewis & Clark | explored the Louisiana Purchase looking on a mapping" |
| Sacagawea | accompanied Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery and proved invaluable as a translator and liason to local tribes |
| impressments of seamen | the practice of the British and French of forcibly removing sailors from foreign vessels to serve in their navies |
| Embargo Act of 1807 | made trade with Britain and France illegal (essentially) and was Jefferson's attempt at "peaceful coercion" |
| War Hawks | a group of Congressmen in the 12th congress who supported war against Britian in the time leading to the War of 1812- leaders were "John C. Calhoun of South Carolina |
| Zebulon Pike | "the trapper, explorer and mountain man" who explored the mountain interior of the West and for who Pike's Peak was named" |
| Macon’s Bill #2 | the 1810 attempt to end harassment of American trading by reopening trade and threatening to cut off trade with countries that attacked American "shipping; it was a diplomatic disaster" |
| Corps of Discovery | the group led by Lewis and Clark on their trip through Louisiana |
