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| 5495771572 | Monroe Doctrine | They should not attempt to create new colonies, or try to overthrow the newly independent republics in the hemisphere. The United States would consider such action "dangerous to our peace and safety." |  | 0 |
| 5495814128 | Louisiana purchase | Purchase of land between the US and France | 1 | |
| 5495829618 | 1800 Election | Election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson | 2 | |
| 5495909034 | Common wealth v Hunt | Supreme Court ruled that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies provided that their methods were "honorable & peaceful". ruled that unions were legal, allowed labor unions which helped with the industrial revolution | 3 | |
| 5495911303 | The Liberator | The anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison; drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words btw supporters of slavery and those opposed. | 4 | |
| 5495913034 | nullification | A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional | 5 | |
| 5495920688 | Missouri Compromise | "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. | 6 | |
| 5495926081 | Battle of New Orleans | Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans 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. | 7 | |
| 5495933024 | War Hawks | Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of nationalism, and they wanted to take over British land in North America and expand. | 8 | |
| 5495937596 | abolition movement | Campaign against slavery and the slave trade | 9 | |
| 5495993221 | Jefferson cutting costs | Reduce army and Navy | 10 | |
| 5496000390 | Results of the war of 1812 | U.S. gained national pride from victories at New Orleans and at sea. The British recognized U.S. boundaries and stayed out of the Northwest Territory. American industry prospered making more goods at home. The Federalist Party diminished. | 11 | |
| 5496005542 | Mexican American war | 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land. | 12 | |
| 5496007856 | Trail of Tears | (AJ) , The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey. | 13 | |
| 5496011759 | Seneca falls convention | Took place in Upstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, tried to get women rights for women, especially the right to vote. | 14 | |
| 5496023381 | strict constructionist | A person who believes that the Constitution must be interpreted word by word. Thomas Jefferson believed in strict construction of the Constitution. | 15 | |
| 5496027651 | impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service | 16 | |
| 5496029640 | Judicial Review | Authority given the courts to review constitutionality of acts by the executive/state/legislature; est. in Marbury v. Madison | 17 | |
| 5496033745 | Free Enterprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. | 18 | |
| 5496036631 | The 2nd Great awakening | The 2nd Great Awakening started many reform movements including public education, temperance (not drinking alcohol), women's suffrage (right to vote), prison reform, and better treatment for the mentally handicapped. Methodists and Baptists | 19 | |
| 5496110881 | McCulloch v Maryland | 1819, Cheif justice john marshall limits of the US constitution and of the authority of the federal and state govt. one side was opposed to the establishment of a national bank and challenged the authority of federal govt to establish one. the supreme court ruled that power of federal govt was supreme that of the states and the states couldn't interfere | 20 | |
| 5496134301 | Implied powers | Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution | 21 | |
| 5496404813 | Marbury v Madison | This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review | 22 | |
| 5496418891 | Gibbons v Ogden | Established a broad view of the commerce clause when a federal steamboat license trumped a state license | 23 | |
| 5496425587 | Cohens v Virginia | Supreme Court case, gave US Supreme Court the right to examine the decisions of state supreme courts. | 24 |
