A | B |
Thomas Jefferson | President from 1801-1809 |
Aaron Burr | Vice-President that later killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
12th amedment | made seperate ballots for President and Vice-President |
"laissez faire" | let people do as they choose |
customs duties | taxes on imported goods |
Judiciary Act of 1801 | added Federalist judges before John Adams left the Presidency |
Marbury v. Madison | Supreme Court case that created Judicial Review |
McCulloch v Maryland | allowed Congress powers not listed in the Constitution. Allowed the National Bank |
Gibbons v. Ogden | National government can control interstate commerce |
Conestoga Wagons | sturdy vehicles with a white canvas top used to travel west by pioneers |
Louisiana Territory | territory controlled by Spain, then France, and the US |
Louisiana Purchase | territory sold to the US for $15 million from France |
Napoleon Bonaparte | French leader who sold Louisiana |
Merriwether Lewis | explored Louisiana Territory with William Clark |
William Clark | explored Louisiana Territory with Merriwether Lewis |
Sacagawea | Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark |
Zebulon Pike | Explorer who explored the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers |
Alexander Hamilton | Creator of our financial system killed by Aaron Burr in a duel |
Barbary Pirates | Pirates from Tripoli who attack American ships |
neutral rights | a country has the right to sail the seas freely if they are not involved a conflict |
Chesapeake | American ship sank by the British ship Leopard |
impressment | forcing people to serve in another country's navy |
Embargo Act of 1807 | stopped all foreign trade |
Tecumseh | Shawnee Indian who fought against the US |
Battle of Tippecanoe | Battle near Lafayette, IN where William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's brother Prophet |
nationalism | loyalty to one's country |
Oliver Hazard Perry | American who won a Naval battle on Lake Erie |
Francis Scott Key | wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" |
Treaty of Ghent | ended the War of 1812 |
Battle of New Orleans | Victory by Andrew Jackson over the British at the end of the War of 1812 |
Industrial Revolution | Growth of Factories in the US |
Cotton Gin | invention by Eli Whitney that made it easier to remove seeds from cotton |
Eli Whitney | Invented the Cotton Gin and Interchangable parts |
factory system | where all manufacturing steps are brought together in one place. |
Capitalism | economic system in the United States |
Free Enterprise | people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want |
Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat |
national road | Built to connect the 13 original states to western lands |
canal | artifical waterway |
sectionalism | loyalty to a region over that the United States |
internal improvements | projects to improve states and the nation |
state sovereignty | the idea that states' power should be protected |
John C. Calhoun | Senator from South Carolina |
Daniel Webster | Congressman from Massachusetts who was a great public speaker |
Henry Clay | Kentucky representative who tried to solve many of the nations disputes |
Missouri Compromise | admitted Maine as a free state; Missouri as a slave state. Kept balance of power in the country |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gave up its rights to Florida |
Monroe Doctrine | North and South America could not in the future be colonized by any European powers. |