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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare as unconstitutional those acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution. In doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict constructionism of the Constitution. Written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
| Aaron Burr | United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south |
| Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. |
| John Marshall | was an American politician who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835. |
| Judicial Review | review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act. |
| Marbury v. Madison | was a U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and some government actions that contravene the U.S. Constitution.;stablished that the U.S. Constitution is actual "law", not just a statement of political principles and ideals, and helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches |
| Lewis and Clark | an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806 |
| Barbary War | a series of 2 conflict between 1801-1815 between the U.S. and 4 North African States that supported state sponsored piracy; attacked weaker nations to exact tribute and ransom for release of prisoners. |
| Impressment | is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice |
| Embargo | an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. |
| Tecumseh | was a Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early 19th century; |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | was fought on November 7, 1811, between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors associated with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh; victory for U.S. forces |
| War Hawks | a person who clamors for war; any of the congressmen from the South and West, led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun, who wanted war against Britain in the period leading up to the War of 1812 |
| War of 1812 | (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights and U.S. territorial expansion. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. |
