Out of Many: A History of the American People
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| 945034011 | Madburry v. Madison | Supreme Court decision that created the precedent of judicial review by ruling as unconstitutional. | 1 | |
| 945034012 | Embargo Act | Act passed by Congress that prohibited American ships from leaving for any foreign port. | 2 | |
| 945034013 | Pan-Indian Military Resistance Movement | Movement calling for the political and cultural unification of Indian tribes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. | 3 | |
| 945034014 | War Hawks | Members of Congress, predominately from the South and West, who aggressively pushed for war against Britain after their election. | 4 | |
| 945034015 | War of 1812 | War fought between the United States and Britain from June 1812 to January 1815 largely over British restrictions on American shipping. | 5 | |
| 945034016 | Battle of New Orleans | Decisive American War of 1812 over British troops in January 1815 that ended any British hopes of gaining control of the lower Mississippi River Valley. | 6 | |
| 945034017 | Nullification | A constitutional doctrine holding that a state has a legal right to declare a national law null and void within its borders. | 7 | |
| 945034018 | Treaty of Ghent | Treaty signed in December 1814 between the United States and Britain that ended the war of 1812. | 8 | |
| 945034019 | Era of Good Feelings | The period from 1817 to 1823 in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled the Republicans to govern in spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony. | 9 | |
| 945034020 | American System | The program of government subsides favored by Henry Clay and his followers to promote American economic growth and protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. | 10 | |
| 945034021 | Second Bank of the United States | A national bank chartered by Congress in 1816 with extensive regulatory powers over currency and credit. | 11 | |
| 945034022 | Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 | Treaty between the United States and Britain that effectively demilitarized the Great Lakes by sharply limiting the number of ships each power could station on them. | 12 | |
| 945034023 | Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 | Treaty between the United States and Spain in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States, surrendered all claims to the Pacific Northwest, and agreed to a boundary between the Louisiana Purchase territory and the Spanish southwest. | 13 | |
| 945034024 | Monroe Doctrine | Declaration by President James Monroe in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of European nations. | 14 | |
| 945034025 | Missouri Compromise | Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchases territory. | 15 |
