Peaceful Exchange
This is the name of the slave who gave birth to Jefferson's children.
Sally Hemings
These are some of the first "major" policies that Jefferson undid when he became president.
Got rid of Alien and Sedition Act, Excise Tax, Reduced the debt,
Jefferson became more moderate. And did not change much.
Why did Jefferson believe the Embargo Act would work?
Believed that American goods and shipping was necessary for those nations to survive. If the U.S. could hold out long enough, the British and French would then have to respect its rights.
The two Shawnee brothers who attempted to weld together a confederacy of all the native tribes east of the Mississippi.
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)
This was the number one reason that Madison was able to gain a declaration of war from Congress
Impressment
a systematic circulation of a rumor, typically in order to damage someone's reputation, especially during political elections.
Whispering campaigns
This was a last ditch attempt by Federalists to create 16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices, to be appointed by the outgoing president.
Judiciary Act 1801
This event caused national uproar when a British warship fired upon an American ship, killing 3 Americans and wounding 18 others.
Chesapeake Affair
Future president who became a national hero at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
William Henry Harrison
To which country did New England gold holders lend more money?
Great Britain
This set the precedent that a president had the power to acquire foreign territory and peoples by purchase and their incorporation into the Union on a basis of equal membership.
Louisiana Purchase
Nickname given to the federal appointees of the Judiciary Act made by Adams.
Midnight Judges
This rigorous law forbade the export of all goods from the United States, whether in American ships or foreign ships.
Embargo Act
This stated that if Britain or France repealed its commercial restrictions, America would restore its embargo against the non-repealing nation.
Macon's Bill No. 2
Why did the War of 1812 lead so many New Englanders to commit "treason or near-treason"?
Loyal Federalists who felt sympathetic to the British and despised Napolean and the French. Federalists opposed the acquisitio of Canada, more farm land meant more Jeffersonian Republicans.
This group of pirate states declared war on the U.S. for refusing to pay a tribute.
Barbary States of North Africa
This Federalist Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was a thorn in the side of President Jefferson, but also did more for the Judicial Branch than any Chief Justice in history.
Chief Justice John Marshall
These policies closed the European ports under French control to foreign shipping, including American, unless the vessels first stopped at a British port.
Orders in Council
Which individual, slyly caused the United States to resume the partial blockade against Britain?
Napolean
Why did Madison and the Republicans believe that they had to declare war on Britain and fight?
If America could not fight to protect itself, the the experiment in Republicanism would be discredited "in the eyes of a scoffin world."
The nickname given to the peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic Republicans because Jefferson believed it represented a return to what he considered the original spirit of 1776.
Revolution of 1800
This Supreme Court case set the precedent of Judicial Review and created the idea that the Supreme Court alone had the last word on the question of constitutionality.
Marbury v. Madison
Explain one unforeseen positive effect of the Embargo for the Northern States and Federalists.
Lack of finished products being brought into the country forced a lot of northern factories and manufacturing back open, eventually making the United States more self reliant.
This measure formally reopened trade with all the nations of the world, except for Britain and France.
Non-Intercourse Act
Nickname given to the "young hotheads, from the South and West" elected to Congress.
War Hawks