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| 1377252074 | Sally Hemings | Thomas Jefferson's slave whose intimacy with him has been confirmed through DNA testing | 0 | |
| 1377252075 | Revolution of 1800 | the term describing Jefferson's election, which represented a return to what he considered the original spirit of the Revolution, as well as a peaceful transfer of power between the two parties | 1 | |
| 1377252076 | patronage | the practice of rewarding political support with special favors, often in the form of public office | 2 | |
| 1377252077 | Albert Gallatin | Jefferson's Swiss-born secretary of the Treasury who agreed with Jefferson that a national debt was a bane rather than a blessing | 3 | |
| 1377252078 | Judiciary Act of 1801 | one of the last important laws passed by the expiring Federalist Congress that created sixteen new federal judgeships and other judicial offices | 4 | |
| 1377252079 | midnight judges | the Federalist judges that President Adams supposedly stayed in the office until nine o'clock on his last night in office to sign the commissions of | 5 | |
| 1377252080 | John Marshall | the chief justice, appointed by Adams, who profoundly shaped the American legal tradition | 6 | |
| 1377252081 | William Marbury | the man who Adams had named a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia who sued Madison for the delivery of his shelved commission | 7 | |
| 1377252082 | Marbury v. Madison | the 1803 Supreme Court decision that stated that the part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 on which Marbury tried to base his appeal was unconstitutional, thus giving the Supreme Court the power to determine the constitutionality of laws | 8 | |
| 1377252083 | judicial review | the idea that the Supreme Court alone had the last word on the question of constitutionality | 9 | |
| 1377252084 | Samuel Chase | the Supreme Court judge who the Jeffersonians failed to impeach, setting a precedent that no attempts should me made to reshape the Supreme Court by the impeachment weapon | 10 | |
| 1377252085 | James Madison | Jefferson's Secretary of State who Marbury sued for shelving his commission | 11 | |
| 1377252086 | Tripolitan War | the four year conflict from 1801-1805 between the American Navy and the North-African nation of Tripoli over piracy in the Mediterranean | 12 | |
| 1377252087 | Napolean Bonaparte | the French king who induced the king of Spain to cede to France, for attractive considerations, the immense trans-Mississippi region of Louisiana, which included the New Orleans area | 13 | |
| 1378126185 | Robert R. Livingston | the regular French minister who James Madison joined in 1803 in order to buy New Orleans and as much land to its east as they could get for a maximum of $10 million | 14 | |
| 1378126186 | Louisiana Purchase | Madison and Livingston's purchase of the vast trans-Mississippi region that included New Orleans for the U.S. for about $15 million in 1803 | 15 | |
| 1378126187 | Meriwether Lewis | Jefferson's personal secretary who he sent to explore the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase | 16 | |
| 1378126188 | William Clark | a young army officer chosen to explore the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase | 17 | |
| 1378126189 | Corps of Discovery | the team of adventurers, led by Lewis and Clark, sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory and find a water route to the Pacific | 18 | |
| 1378126190 | Zebulon M. Pike | the explorer who trekked to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1805-1806 and ventured into the southern part of Louisiana Territory, were he sighted the Colorado peak that bears his name | 19 | |
| 1378126191 | Aaron Burr | Jefferson's first-term vice president who apparently planned to separate the western part of the United States from the East and expand his new confederacy with invasions of Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida | 20 | |
| 1378126192 | James Wilkinson | the unscrupulous military governor of Louisiana Territory and a sometime secret agent in the pay of the Spanish crown with whom Burr planned to start his confederacy | 21 | |
| 1378126193 | Battle of Trafalgar | the 1805 battle where the Brits ensured their supremacy on the seas by smashing the combined French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain | 22 | |
| 1378126194 | Battle of Austerlitz | the battle in Austria where Napoleon crushed the combined Austrian and Russian armies, thereby ensuring French mastery of the land | 23 | |
| 1378126195 | Orders in Council | the London government's edicts, beginning in 1806, which closed the European ports under French control to foreign shipping, including American, unless the vessels first stopped at a British port | 24 | |
| 1378126196 | impressment | the forcible enlistment of sailors, used by British for over four centuries | 25 | |
| 1378126197 | Chesapeake affair | the 1807 event when a British royal frigate overhauled a U.S. frigate about ten miles off the coast of Virginia, and the Brits demanded the surrender of four alleged deserters | 26 | |
| 1378126198 | Embargo Act | the 1807 law which forbade the export of all goods from the U.S., whether in American or foreign ships | 27 | |
| 1378126199 | peaceful coercion | Jefferson's idea embodied in the embargo, to vindicate the rights of neutral nations and point to a new way of conducting foreign affairs | 28 | |
| 1378126200 | Non-Intercourse Act | the 1809 law which formally reopened trade with all he nations of the world, except the two most important, Britain and France | 29 | |
| 1378126201 | Macon's Bill No. 2 | the bargaining measure passed by Congress in 1810 which reopened trade with all the world, but stated that if either Britain or France repealed its commercial restrictions, American would restore its embargo against the non-repealing nation | 30 | |
| 1378126202 | war hawks | the young hotheads, many from the South and West, who were in favor of going to war against Britain | 31 | |
| 1378126203 | Battle of Tippecanoe | the battle that resulted in the defeat of the Shawnee chief, "the Prophet," and led the prophet's brother Tecumseh to forge an alliance with the British against the U.S. | 32 | |
| 1378126204 | William Henry Harrison | the governor of Indiana Territory who gathered an army and advanced on Tecumseh's headquarters at Tippecanoe, routing the Shawnees and burning their settlements | 33 | |
| 1378126205 | Tecumseh | the Prophet's brother who helped to lead the Indians in their resistance of the white frontiersman in the Battle of Tippecanoe, and who forged an alliance with the Brits | 34 | |
| 1378702870 | Mr. Madison's war | the derisive Federalist name for the War of 1812 that blamed it on the Republican president | 35 | |
| 1378702871 | excise tax | the Hamiltonian economic measure repealed by Jefferson and Gallatin | 36 |
