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Under this 1794 treaty, the British agreed to leave the Old Northwest forts by 1796 | What is Jay’s Treaty? |
This problem, where the British would seize sailors from American ships was not solved by Jay’s Treaty. | What is impressment? |
Under Pinckney’s Treaty, the U.S. would have unrestricted use of this western river. | What is the Mississippi River? |
Under this Treaty in 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. | What is the Adams-Onis (or Transcontinental ) Treaty? |
When John Adams was elected President in 1796, this man, a Democratic-Republican, was elected Vice President. | Who is Thomas Jefferson? |
This “affair” in 1797 helped lead the U.S. into an undeclared naval war with France in 1798. | What was the XYZ Affair? |
The three men who were sent to France to seek an end to the problems between France and the U.S. were Charles Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry, and this future Supreme Court chief justice. | Who was John Marshall? |
This act, passed by Congress in 1798, said that an immigrant would have to live in the U.S. for 14 years to become a U.S. citizen. | What was the Naturalization Act? |
states could decide if the federal government went beyond its powers. States could also tell the citizens of their states not to obey what the states believed was an unconstitutional federal law. | What is the states’ rights theory? |
Thomas Jefferson was first elected President this year | What is 1800? |
In 1803, Jefferson took the U.S. into war with this group North African nations ( a type of nickname for outlaws or renegades) | Who are the Barbary Pirates? |
In 1807, this “incident”, whereby a British ship fired into a U.S. ship, and then impressed four U.S. sailors, took place. | What was the Chesapeake-Leopard Incident? |
In 1807, in attempt to get Britain and France to support U.S. neutral rights, Congress passed, and Jefferson signed, this bill into law. | What was the Embargo Act? |
Although Jefferson bought the entire Louisiana Territory in 1803, initially, he only intended to buy this (somewhat) Cajun city at the mouth of the Mississippi. | What is New Orleans? |
In 1814, the British burned this American city. | What is Washington, D.C.? |
During the War of 1812, Americans tried, and failed, several times to invade this British possession north of the U.S. | What is Canada? |
These mostly western and southern Congressmen, including Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, helped push the U.S. into war with Britain in 1812. | Who are the War Hawks? |
This battle took place after the War of 1812 officially ended. | What is the Battle of New Orleans? |
This treaty ended the War of 1812. | What is the Treaty of Ghent? |
The U.S. paid this much for Florida in 1819. | What is $5,000,000? |
In the Adams-Onis Treaty, whereby the U.S. gained Florida, the southern boundary of this fairly new U.S. territory was defined. | What is the Louisiana Territory? |
In the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819, the U.S. gave up any claim to Texas and Spain gave up any claim to this territory (now a state in the current northwestern U.S.) | What is the Oregon Territory? |
In the 1820 Missouri Compromise, all of the land in the Louisiana Territory north of this parallel of latitude in the Louisiana Territory, would be “forever free”. | What is 36 degrees, 30 minutes? |
In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and this northeastern territory (it used to be claimed by Massachusetts) was admitted as a free state. | What is Maine? |
In the 1803 Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court first used this power. | What is judicial review? |
The so-called “midnight judges” that were part of the case in Marbury v. Madison, appointed by this U.S. President. | Who is John Adams? |
The key issue in Gibbons v. Ogden concerned this power, or clause, in the U.S. Constituion. | What is the commerce clause? |
The key issue in Dartmouth College v. Woodward was the legality or sanctity of this type of agreement (i.e., between two individuals, or between a government and a group, etc.) | What are contracts? |
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Maryland had tried to tax this creation of the U.S. government. | What is the Bank of the United States? |