AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 7 The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816
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| 5337008590 | Thomas Jefferson | Organized the national government by Republican ideals, doubled the size of the nation, and struggled to maintain American neutrality. |  | 0 |
| 5337008591 | Louisiana Purchase | The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size. |  | 1 |
| 5337008593 | John Marshall | Federalist Supreme Court justice whose brilliant legal efforts established the principle of judicial review. |  | 2 |
| 5337008594 | Judicial Review | the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional | 3 | |
| 5337008595 | Marbury v. Madison | This established the doctrine of judicial review, where the Supreme Court could overrule actions taken by the legislative and executive branches of the government. | 4 | |
| 5337008598 | Aaron Burr | He is also known for his trial and acquittal on charges of treason. Jefferson's vice-president for his first term; not voted into a second term because of radical ideas and ventures that threatened to break up the Union and resulted in the death of Alexander Hamilton. |  | 5 |
| 5337008599 | Quids | Republicans who criticized the War of 1812 (even though it was started by a Republican president) because it did not follow the traditional Republican idea of limited federal government. | 6 | |
| 5337008603 | Impressment | British practice of taking American sailors from American ships and forcing them into the British navy; a factor in the War of 1812. | 7 | |
| 5337008604 | Chesapeake-Leopard Affair | Incident in 1807 that brought on a war crisis when the British warship attacked the American warship; the British demanded to board the American ship to search for deserters from the Royal Navy. When the U.S. commander refused, the British attacked, killing or wounding 20 American sailors. |  | 8 |
| 5337008605 | Embargo Act (1807) | This act issued by Jefferson forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S. It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade. |  | 9 |
| 5337008607 | Nonintercourse Act (1809) | Replaced the Embargo Act. Lifted the stop of trade to foreign countries EXCEPT France and England. Led to the war of 1812. | 10 | |
| 5337008608 | Macon's Bill No. 2 (1810) | When economic hardships continued into 1810, a member of Congress, introduced a bill that restored U.S. trade with both Britain & France. It also provided, however, that if either France or Britain formally agreed to respect neutral rights at sea, then the U.S. would prohibit trade with the foe of that nation. | 11 | |
| 5337008610 | William Henry Harrison | Govenor of the Indiana territory, he fought against Tecumseh and Prophet at the Battle of Tippecanoe. |  | 12 |
| 5337008611 | Battle of Tippecanoe | Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but were defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a cause to the War of 1812. |  | 13 |
| 5337008613 | War Hawks | These were mostly young Republicans who had been imbued with the ideals of the American Revolution as youths, who wanted to take Canada and Florida and deal with the Indian problem. | 14 | |
| 5337008619 | Battle of the Thames River | Battle led by Harrison; broke the British alliance with the Native Americans when Tecumseh was killed. |  | 15 |
| 5337008621 | Battle of Lake Champlain | A battle where the British fleet was defeated and was forced to retreat and to abandon their plans to invade New York and New England after being stoped by Thomas Macdonough. |  | 16 |
| 5337008623 | Battle of Horseshoe Bend | On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe inspired by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, effectively ending the Creek War. | 17 | |
| 5337008625 | Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S. |  | 18 |
| 5337008627 | Hartford Convention (1814) | Final report demanded:-Financial assistance from Washington to compensate for lost trade from embargos; -Constitutional amendments requiring a 2/3 vote in Congress before an embargo could be imposed, new states admitted, or war declared; -The abolition of slavery; -a President could only serve 1 term; -the abolition of the 3/5 clause; -the prohibition of the election of 2 successive Presidents from the same state.The Hartford resolutions marked the death of the Federalist party. |  | 19 |
