AP US Ch. 11 Flashcards
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| 99317788 | John adams | pres #2 refused to allow fghting with france, "Father of the american Navy" | 0 | |
| 99317789 | electoral college | elected the president and represented all the states through representatives | 1 | |
| 99317790 | aaron burr | helped NY be for jefferson, was a VP runner | 2 | |
| 99317791 | "revolution of 1800" | the election of 1800 in comparison to halt decay of virtue | 3 | |
| 99317792 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president, democratic, walked to capital | 4 | |
| 99317793 | Alien and Sedition acts (repeal of) | gov't pardoned sufferers of sedition act and took away fines | 5 | |
| 99317794 | excise tax (repeal of) | favored beaurecrats and aristocrast, was hard on farmers so it was repealed | 6 | |
| 99317795 | albert gallatin | Swiss "watchdog of the the treasury" agreed nat'l debt was doing badly, helped reduce debt without crippling the economy | 7 | |
| 99317796 | Judiciary act (1801) | one of last laws passed by federal congress, 16 federal judgeships repealed within the year | 8 | |
| 99317797 | john marshall | federalist, chief justice appointed by adams, thomas jeffersons cousin very smart, shaped american legal tradition | 9 | |
| 99317798 | William Marbury | justice of the peace in DC - sued for his commission | 10 | |
| 99317799 | James Madison | secretary of state, shelved marbury's commission but didnt get in trouble for it | 11 | |
| 99317800 | Marbury vs. Madison (1803) | questioned who had the final authority to determine the meaning of the constitution, sent to the supreme court | 12 | |
| 99317801 | John Marshall | supreme court justice who presided over Marbury vs. madison case, was decided not guilty | 13 | |
| 99317802 | Barbary pirates (1801) | blackmailed and plundered merchant ships that went to the Mediterranean sea | 14 | |
| 99317803 | tripolitan war | 4 years long, pasha of tripoli grew tired of his share of protection $, peace came in 1805 | 15 | |
| 99317804 | New orleans/right of deposit | France's new territory, these warehouses were vital to frontier farmers who used the mississippi to transport goods | 16 | |
| 99317805 | Louisiana territory | Land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains | 17 | |
| 99317806 | napoleon bonaparte | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821), convinced spain to cede france the louisiana territory | 18 | |
| 99317807 | james monroe/robert livingston | america's envoys tols to buy new Orleans and anything else they could get for $10 million (two names) | 19 | |
| 99317808 | santo domingo | sugar rich island that napoleon wanted to conquer | 20 | |
| 99317809 | toussaint L'Ouverture | ex slave and leader of the Haitian Revolution slave rebellion, died in a prison in france | 21 | |
| 99317810 | louisiana purchase (1803) | For 15 million the U.S. purchases from France enough land west of the Mississippi River to double the size of the country, went for 3 cents/acre | 22 | |
| 99317811 | meriwether lewis | personal secretary to Jefferson, was sent to explore the northern part of the Louisian Purchase | 23 | |
| 99317812 | william clark | United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River | 24 | |
| 99317813 | sacajawea | native american woman who served as a guide an interpreter for the lewis and clark expedition | 25 | |
| 99317814 | zebulon pike | Leader of a SOUTHERN expedition in the Louisiana Territory | 26 | |
| 99317815 | aaron burr conspiracies | Joined with a group of Federalists to plan the secession of New England and New York . Alexander Hamilton foiled and exposed this plot. Burr was enraged and challenged Hamilton to a duel, killing hamilton cold | 27 | |
| 99317816 | 1804 election | Jefferson re-elected as president over aaron burr by a landslide of 162 electoral votes | 28 | |
| 99317817 | british orders in counsel (1806) | closed european ports under french control to foreign shipping | 29 | |
| 99317818 | impressment of sailors | forced enlistment of sailors by the british navy | 30 | |
| 99317819 | Chesapeake incident (1807) | the british attacked an american ship, killed 3 and wounded 18 americans | 31 | |
| 99317820 | embargo act (1807) | banned imports and exports from america to any nation in the world...terrible idea | 32 | |
| 99317821 | non-intercourse act (1809) | Replaced the Embargo Act. Lifted the stop of trade to foreign countries EXCEPT France and England. Led to the war of 1812. | 33 | |
| 99317822 | two term tradition | set by washington, jefferson only served two terms, and was happy to get out of there | 34 | |
| 99317823 | james madison | 4th President of the United States | 35 | |
| 99317824 | macon's bill no. 2 | opened trade with britain and france, said if either nation repealed its restrictions on neutral shipping the US would halt trade with the other...didn't work | 36 | |
| 99317825 | "war hawks" | antifederalists that had a strong sense of nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand.). | 37 | |
| 99317826 | henry clay | kentucky senator, war hawk, "the great negotiator" | 38 | |
| 99317827 | tecumseh (shawnee chief) | "the prophet" attempted to fight off white by creating a confederacy of all tribes east of mississippi | 39 | |
| 99317828 | gen. william henry harrison | governor of indian territory, was at the battle of tippecanoe | 40 | |
| 99317829 | battle of tippecanoe (1811) | the prophet attacked harrison, and they were defeated, the indian settlement was burned, in the war, the angered indians sided with the british | 41 | |
| 99317830 | war declaration | US declared war on Great Britian | 42 |