| A | B |
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| democratic | establishing that all people have equal rights |
| laissez-faire | a hands-ff government policy concerning private businesses |
| impeachment | bringing formal charges against a federal or state public official with the intent of removing the official from office |
| Marbury v. Madison | Supreme Court ruling that claimed a law passed by Congress was unconstitutional |
| judicial review | the right of the Supreme Court to review laws passed by Congress |
| precedent | a model to be used as a guide for future actions |
| cede | to give up |
| blockade | something that prevents goods and people from moving in and out of an area |
| impressment | act of forcing men to serve milliary duty |
| deserter | soldier who abandons his or her military duty without permission |
| embargo | an official government ban on trade |
| shaman | a Native American religious leader |
| war hawk | a person in 1812 who wanted the United States to go to war against Great Britain |
| privateer | armed, private ship that protected colonial ports |
| national anthem | an official song of praise and patriotism |
| internal taxes | a tax on a good produced for sale inside the country |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Judicary Act of 1789 | an act that established the federal judiciary courts of the United States |
| Judiciary Act of 1801 | an act that increased the number of federal judges |
| midnight judges | federalist federal judges who were appointed by John Adams up until midnight on his last day in office |
| Louisiana Purchase | The purchase of the Louisiana territory for $15 million dollars in 1803 |
| Lewis and Clarke Expedition | amateur scientist who were appointed by Thomase Jefferson to explore, map, and record their journey of the Louisiana Territory |
| Embargo Act | Passed by congress in December of 1807, it prohibited all American ships and their cargo from leaving the United States for foreign ports |
| Non Intercourse Act | allowed Americans to trade with any nation except France and Great Britain |
| Leopard | British warship which attacked the american warship the Chesapeake in 1807 |
| Chesapeake | American warhship attacked by the British warship the Leopard |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | a battle between American soldiers led by William Henry Harrison and Native Americans led by The Prophet (Tenskwatawa), which marked the beginning of a long and deadly war between Native Americans and white settlers |
| Battle of New Orleans | January 8, 1815, Americans sharpshooters led by Andrew Jackson won the greatest victory for the United States in the War of 1812 |
| Hartford Convention | A secret meeting in December of 1814, where delegates from New England met to talk of leaving the United States and forming the Hartford Convention |
| Treaty of Ghent | an agreement by Great Britain and the United States to end the fighting of the War of 1812 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The third President of the United States |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of the Suprem Court during Jefferson's Presidency |
| Albert Gallatin | appointed as secretary of treasury by Jefferson to worked to simplify the government |
| William Marbury | one of the midnight judges appointed by John Adams, who was not delivered his official commision as justice of the peace in the District of Columbia |
| James Madison | appointed secretary of state by Jefferson who was told to not deliver William Marbury his offical commission as justice of the peace in the District of Columbia |
| Robert Livingston | ambassador to France, authorized to buy New Orleans |
| James Monroe | a diplomat sent to help in negotiations for purchasing New Orleans |
| Meriwether Lewis | a captain in the army who sent to explore the Louisiana Territory |
| William Clark | a lieutenant in the army who was sent to explore the Louisiana Territory |
| Sacajawea | a Shoshone woman helped the Lewis and Clarke expedition survive the winter and travel through the Rocky Mountains |
| Zebulon Pike | the leader of expeditions to explore the Mississippi River and the Colorado region |
| Edward Preble | Commondore who ordered that the ship Philadelphia destroyed |
| Stephan Decatur | American officer who led a raid to set the American ship the Philadelphia on fire |
| Tecumseh | a Shawnee chief who formed a confederation of all the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to resist the movement west of white settlers |
| The Prophet | Tecumsehs brother also known as Tenskwatawa and was a shaman, or religious leader |
| William Henry Harrison | millitary commander in the Indian territory who lead and attack on Tecumseh's indian settlement called Prophetstown and also won the Battle of Thames River |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | a naval officer who assembled 10 small ships to attack and win against British warships on Lake Erie, giving the United States back control of Michigan |
| Dolley Madison | wife of James Madison who is credited with saving many important papers and paintings when the Capital was burnt |
| Francis Scott Key | Washington lawyer who watched the British attack on Fort McHenry from the deck of a prisoner of war exchange ship and was moved to write a poem, which became our national anthem |
| Andrew Jackson | General who led his men in victory over 8,000 British soldiers at the Battle of New Orleans |
