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| 233450888 | Embargo Act of 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. It was difficult to enforce because it was opposed by merchants and everyone else whose livelihood depended upon international trade. It also hurt the national economy, so it was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act. | 0 | |
| 233450889 | Non-intercourse Act of 1809 | In response to the embargo act of 1807, Madison reopened trade with all nations except Britain and France | 1 | |
| 233450890 | Henry Clay's American System | Plan for economic growth: establish a protective tariff, establish a national bank, and improve the country's transporation system. | 2 | |
| 233450891 | Hartford Convention | Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions were largley viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence. Proposed a law that in order for an embargo to happen, a new state to be admitted or for the nation to go to war 2/3 of the congress to should vote for it. | 3 | |
| 233450892 | Andrew Jackson | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. | 4 | |
| 233450893 | William Henry Harrison | was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. His death created a brief constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe. | 5 | |
| 233450894 | Battle of Tippecanoe | Battle between Americans and Native Americans. Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a cause to the War of 1812. | 6 | |
| 233455587 | 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. | 7 | |
| 233455588 | 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-this creation was ruled to be unconstitutional). | 8 | |
| 233455589 | Judiciary Act of 1789 | established a Supreme Court and district courts (1789) | 9 | |
| 233455590 | McCulloch v Maryland | Maryland tried to tax notes printed by national bank. 1819, Cheif justice john marshall limits of the US constition and of the authority of the federal and state govts. one side was opposed to establishment of a national bank and challenged the authority of federal govt to establish one. supreme court ruled that power of federal govt was supreme that of the states and the states couldnt interfere | 10 | |
| 233458709 | Cohens v Virginia | cohens selling lottery tickets illegally, VA sues; Marshall says VA is right, establishes supreme courts right to review cases tried by state courts | 11 | |
| 233458710 | Dartmouth v Woodward | This 1819 Marshall Court decision was one of the earliest and most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions to interpret the contracts clause in Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution. The case arose from a dispute in New Hampshire over the state's attempt to take over Dartmouth College. By construing the Contract Clause as a means of protecting corporate charters from state interventions, Marshall derived a significant constitutional limitation on state authority. As a result, various forms of private economic and social activity would enjoy security from state regulatory policy. Marshall thus encouraged the emergence of the relatively unregulated private economic actor as the major participant in a growing national economy. | 12 | |
| 233458711 | Fletcher v Peck | arose with a GA legistlatire was swayed by bribary granted 35 million acres in the yazoo river country to private speculators, legislature cancelled it, Marshall interfered and said that the state must uphold the contract. this later protected property rights and contracts as well. | 13 | |
| 233458712 | Gibbons v Ogden | This case involved New York trying to grant a monopoly on waterborne trade between New York and New Jersey. Judge Marshal, of the Supreme Court, sternly reminded the state of New York that the Constitution gives Congress alone the control of interstate commerce. Marshal's decision, in 1824, was a major blow on states' rights. | 14 | |
| 233475797 | Hamilton's Financial Plans | it was created by Alexander Hamilton to stabilize the American economy; it consisted of federal assumption of all debts, including state and federal debts; along with this, he proposed the chartering of the U.S. Bank to help restore American credit | 15 | |
| 233475798 | Citizen Genet | French ambassador in America, went around country trying to recruit Americans to fight for French without consent of American government --> kicked out for allowing French warship into Philadelphia, no longer French ambassador in America | 16 | |
| 233475799 | whiskey rebellion | In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion. | 17 | |
| 233475800 | Proclamation of Neutrality | - A formal announcement issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the United States a neutral nation in the conflict between Great Britain and France that had begun with the French Revolution. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to warring countries. | 18 | |
| 233475801 | Pickney's Treaty | 1795 - Treaty between the U.S. and Spain which gave the U.S. the right to transport goods on the Mississippi river and to store goods in the Spanish port of New Orleans. | 19 | |
| 233475802 | Battle of Fallen Timbers | The U.S. Army defeated the Native Americans under Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket and ended Native American hopes of keeping their land that lay north of the Ohio River, Post-revolution war, British instogate Native American attacks, but "Mad" Anthony Wayne defeats them in Ohio Valley and gets the Greenville treaty, which cedes Native American land in Ohio Valley to U.S. | 20 | |
| 233475803 | treaty of grenville | After their defeat at the Battle of the Fallen Timbers in 1794, 12 Native American tribes signed the Treaty of Grenville, which cleared the Ohio territory of tribes and opened it up to U.S. settlement | 21 | |
| 233475804 | Farwell Address | Final speech before George Washington leaves office, warns US about entangled alliances and political parties | 22 | |
| 233475805 | Alien and Sedition Act | passed by federalists making it harder to become citizens and to deport any immigrant deemed dangerous. the second one outlawed the writing, speaking, or publications of false, scandalous, or malicious statements against the government | 23 | |
| 233475806 | quasi war with france | Adams was angry as a result of XYZ affair a trade was cutt off with French treaties of 1778 were repudited and impressment of French sailors was ordered; 1798 - Navy was being funded - captured 35 French ships; Britain - ally; Finally France reconciled and new treaty allied with French; undeclared war | 24 | |
| 233475807 | convention of 1800 | Treaty signed in Paris that ended France's peacetime military alliance with America. Napolean was eager to sign this treaty so he could focus his attention on conquering Europe and perhaps create a New World empire in Lousiana. This ended the "quasi-war" between France and America. | 25 | |
| 233475808 | XYZ affair | An insult to the American delegation when they were supposed to be meeting French foreign minister, Talleyrand, but instead they were sent 3 officials Adams called "X,Y, and Z" that demanded $250,000 as a bribe to see Talleyrand. | 26 | |
| 233475809 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolution | Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional. | 27 | |
| 233475810 | end of excise tax | Ended the tax on whiskey, Jefferson | 28 | |
| 233475811 | Tripoli War | war with a Barbary state concerning America's refusal to pay a fee to pass through the Mediterranean, ends in 1805 with defeat of pirates (Jefferson Administration), gave us the right to use the mediterrian, a war that first showed that the american army may not be as powerful and independant as we thought. | 29 | |
| 233475812 | louisiana purchase | The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size. | 30 | |
| 233475813 | 12th amendment | Brought about by the Jefferson/Burr tie, stated that presidential and vice-presidential nominees would run on the same party ticket. Before that time, all of the candidates ran against each other, with the winner becoming president and second-place becoming vice-president. | 31 | |
| 233475814 | Burr's Conspiracy | involved a plot to start a rebellion in the West, a deal with the territorial governor of Louisiana, resulted in Burr's being tired for treason and being acquitted of that crime | 32 | |
| 233475815 | Tariff of 1816 | James Madison created this. first protective tariff | 33 | |
| 233475816 | Chesapeake Affair | 1807 - The American ship Chesapeake refused to allow the British on the Leopard to board to look for deserters. In response, the Leopard fired on the Chesapeake. As a result of the incident, the U.S. expelled all British ships from its waters until Britain issued an apology. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664. | 34 | |
| 233475817 | Macons Bill no. 2 | open trade with everyone. If france or brit. removes trade restriction, U.S. will cut trade with guy who didnt | 35 | |
| 233475818 | War of 1812 | a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France, War between the U.S. and Great Britain which lasted until 1814, ending with the Treaty of Ghent and a renewed sense of American nationalism | 36 | |
| 233475819 | Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key observed the battle of Fort Mchenry and wrote his thoughts down in a poem called the "Star Spangled Banner" | 37 | |
| 233475820 | land act of 1820 | authorized a buyer to purchase 80 virgin acres at a minimum of $1.25 per acre in cash, it also brought about cheap transportation and cheap money | 38 | |
| 233475821 | Missouri Compromise | The issue was that Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state, therefore unbalancing the Union so there would be more slave states then free states. The compromise set it up so that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery. | 39 | |
| 233475822 | Cooper | United States novelist noted for his stories of indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) | 40 | |
| 233475823 | Irving | United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942) | 41 | |
| 233475824 | 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. | 42 | |
| 233475825 | Russo American Treaty | was signed in St. Petersburg between representatives of Russia and the United States on April 17, 1824, ratified by both nations on January 11, 1825 and went into effect on January 12, 1825. The accord contained six articles. It gave Russian claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America south of parallel 54°40′ north over what Americans know as the Oregon Country to the United States. | 43 | |
| 233475826 | Adams Onis Treaty | Spain ceded Florida to the United States and gave up its claims to the Oregon Territory | 44 | |
| 233475827 | Tallmadge Amendment | This was an attempt to have no more slaves to be brought to Missouri and provided the gradual emancipation of the children of slaves. In the mind of the South, this was a threat to the sectional balance between North and South. | 45 | |
| 233475828 | Cumberland | new National road, issued by monroe | 46 | |
| 233475829 | Judiciary Act of 1801 | a law that increased the number of federal judges, allowing President John Adams to fill most of the new posts with Federalists | 47 | |
| 233478194 | Orders in Council | edicts that closed European ports to foreign shipping unless they stopped first in a British port | 48 | |
| 233478195 | 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. | 49 | |
| 233478196 | Noah Webster | American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language. | 50 | |
| 233478197 | Daniel Webster | Famous American politician and orator. he advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of Jackson. Many of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System. Would later push for a strong union. | 51 | |
| 233478198 | Panic of 1819 | Economic panic caused by extensive speculation and a decline of Europena demand for American goods along with mismanagement within the Second Bank of the United States. Often cited as the end of the Era of Good Feelings. | 52 | |
| 233491192 | Rush-Bagot Treaty | The Treaty demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval armaments and forts still remained, and laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and British North America This agreement was indicative of improving relations between the United States and Britain during this time period following the end of the War of 1812. | 53 |
