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| 732759439 | Marbury v. Madison | The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). | 1 | |
| 732759440 | Embargo Act | signed by thomas jefferson in 1807 - stop export of all american goods and american ships from sailing for foreign ports | 2 | |
| 732759441 | 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 | |
| 732759442 | War Hawks | members of Congress from the South and the West who called for war with Britain prior to the War of 1812 | 4 | |
| 732759443 | War of 1812 | A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France. | 5 | |
| 732759444 | Battle of New Orleans | Decisive American War of 1812 victory over British troops in January 1815 that ended any British hopes of gaining control of the lower Mississippi River Valley | 6 | |
| 732759445 | Nullification | the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | 7 | |
| 732759446 | Treaty of Ghent | December 24, 1814 - Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border. | 8 | |
| 732759447 | Era of Good Feelings | A name for President Monroe's two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. Since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party and no partisan conflicts. | 9 | |
| 732759448 | American System | Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy. | 10 | |
| 732759449 | Second Bank of the United States | a national bank chartered by Congress in 1816 with extensive regulatory powers over currency and credit | 11 | |
| 732759450 | 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 | |
| 732759451 | 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 | |
| 732759452 | Monroe Doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. | 14 | |
| 732759453 | Missouri Compromise | Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820) | 15 |
