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| Jay’s Treaty | A treaty with Britain in which U.S. paid off debts with British merchants and the British agreed to leave NW Territory, pay for seized ships, and stop aiding Native Americans |
| Alien Act | An act of the Adams administration increased time from 5-14 years in order to be U.S. citizen it also gave President power to deport or imprison dangerous aliens |
| Sedition Act | An act of the Adams administration that was aimed at Republicans making it a crime for anyone to say or write anything insulting or false about the President, Congress, or government in general |
| Pinckney’s Treaty | A treaty made with Spain after they threatened to take away access of Mississippi River to New Orleans |
| Louisiana Purchase | Napoleon needed money in war with Britain so he sold a large piece of land and New Orleans which doubled the size of the U.S. |
| Embargo Act | Jefferson issued this stoppage of trade with Britain and France until they stopped seizing our cargo |
| Treaty of Ghent | A treaty made with Great Britain in Belgium in which the two sides signed a peace treaty and everything went back to the way it was |
| Tariff of 1816 | After the Embargo Act and the War of 1812 and Britain began to produce textiles, iron and other products cheaper. They dumped them into American markets and this tariff was put in place to help boost the American economy |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | General Andrew Jackson had originally taken control of Florida and this made it official that Spain would give up control to U.S. |
| Monroe Doctrine | After France and Russia indicated that they might help Spain take back colonies the U.S. issued a statement that we would not allow European nations create any more American colonies or interfere with new Latin American countries (Britain also supported this) |
| Indian Removal Act | This gave Jackson the authority to offer Natives land west on Mississippi River in exchange for lands in the East and gave money to carry this out |
| Treaty of Greenville | Result of the Battle of Fallen Timbers in which most Native lands from Ohio River in the South up to Lake Erie in the North were given to the U.S. – this opened up NW part of U.S. |
| The Nullification Crisis | Congress passed a tariff on iron, textiles, and other products and V.P. John C. Calhoun said that states had right to get rid of this act |
| Trail of Tears | In 1838 after being the last tribe to hold out the Cherokee were forced out by Pres. Martin Van Buren in the winter of 1838-39 guarded by 7,000 soldiers – 4,000 of the 15,000 died on the journey into the designated Indian Territory |
| Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worchester v. Georgia | The Supreme Court had to deal with whether state law had any force in the Cherokee Territory |
| McCullough v. Maryland | The Supreme Court protected the Second National Bank by forbidding the states from taxing the National Bank – further strengthening the supremacy of federal law |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition | A government funded project that was aimed at reporting back on animals, geography, plant life, and other natural features of the land as well as make contact with the Natives, and see if there was a passageway from Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean |
| Marbury v. Madison | A court case where judicial review was used for the first time |
| XYZ Affair | Adams sent 3-person mission to France and met with 3 French agents who demanded a $250,000 bribe and demanded us to lend France several million dollars |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Backcountry farmers upset at tariffs slapped on whiskey as a way to generate revenue for the federal government |
