Section 1
The third president of the United States of America.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Leader of France who sold the US the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Napoleon?
The Embargo Act.
What law banned trade with all foreign countries?
A naval technique used by the British to keep US ships from leaving port.
What is a blockade?
The president during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
Three things did Jefferson define as the primary role of the federal government.
What are:
Protecting the nation from foreign threats
Delivering mail
Collecting customs duties?
Price that France sold the Louisiana Purchase for.
What is $15,000,000?
The practice of forcing people to serve in the army or navy.
What is impressment?
Major battle fought after the Treaty of Ghent (ending War of 1812), was signed.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Oldest commissioned ship in the US Navy.
What is the USS Constitution?
Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
Scared that the Port of New Orleans would be shut down to American trade.
Why did the United States want to buy New Orleans?
Tried to unify Native American tribes to fight against the American settlers.
Who is Tecumseh?
Two forts on the Great Lakes that were important during the War of 1812.
What are Fort Detroit and Fort Niagara?
Two prominent War Hawks in the US Senate.
Who are Henry Clay and John C Calhoun?
The Democrat-Republican Party believed in rule by the people.
Which political party believed in rule by the people?
River used by Lewis and Clark as a highway into the unknown land.
What is the Missouri River?
The future president and governor of the Indiana Territory.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Native American tribe that Andrew Jackson attacked in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
What is the Creek Tribe?
A battle that lead to Tecumseh's dream of a united Native American confederation.
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
These two politicians tied in the presidential election of 1800 with 73 votes each.
Who is Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
The tribe that Sacagawea was originally from.
What is the Shoshone tribe?
Privately owned ships that were contracted into service by the United States Navy during War of 1812.
What are privateers?
Saved many artifacts, including the famous painting of George Washington, before the White House was burned by the British.
Who is Dolly Madison?
The causes of the War of 1812.
What are impressment, British interference in trade, and British military aid to the Native Americans?