| A | B |
|---|
| Stephen Decatur | American sailor who burnt the Philadelphia to keep it from falling into the hands of the pirates |
| Barbary pirates | attacked American ships in the Mediterranean |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee NA leader who organized NA resistance to western settlement |
| Henry Clay | the most famous "war hawk" |
| James Madison | Republican president elected in 1808 |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | led American naval victory in Lake Erie that forced British back to Canada |
| Andrew Jackson | defeated NAs at Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans |
| William Henry Harrison | defeated NAs at Tippecanoe and Thames (including Tecumseh) in the NW territory |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" as he watched the British bombard Fort McHenry |
| Aaron Burr | Jefferson's running mate who received same number of electoral votes (also killed Hamilton in a duel) |
| Alexander Hamilton | shaped the economic policy of the new nation |
| Thomas Jefferson | second president, took power in 1800 peacefully |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | leader of France during this period, sold us the LA territory |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | led the Haitian revolution that overthrew France |
| Zebulon Pike | explored the southern half of the LA territory, accused of spying by the Spanish |
