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The Dictator and Emperor of France who stated he aligned with the Revolutionary ideals of his people.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A government in which the states and nation work together in a federation ruled by citizens.
What is federal republic?
Meaning Approval
What is ratification?
Opened fire on the British ship Boxer.
What is the American ship Enterprise?
A farmer who settled on land without legal claim to it.
What is a squatter?
Organized the famous crossing of the Delaware River
Who is Henry Knox?
A type of government in which people elect representatives to serve in the government and give the representatives the power to make decisions.
What is representative democracy?
The first national government, based on the Articles of Confederation, joined the original 13 states into this.
What is a "League of Friendship"?
After the battle between the Enterprise and the Boxer, England blockaded Maines entire coast. They then said this was the real border between Canada and Maine, not the St. Croix river.
What is the Penobscot River?
The act of kidnapping people and forcing them to work.
What is impressment?
He wrote the Missouri Compromise in order to distinguish between slave states and free states.
Who is Henry Clay?
The principle under which there is no official religion and people are free to practice their own religion.
What is separation of church and state?
a specific section of a document
What is articles?
This is when the War of 1812 ended
What is Christmas Eve 1814.
The state of not taking either side
What is neutrality?
Who is William King?
This prevented some Maine ship captains from returning to the United States, and merchants with ships in Maine soon went bankrupt.
What is the Embargo of 1808?
What is "We The People"?
This document is what solidified the end of the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Cannons or other forms of weaponry
What is artillery?
He told Massachusetts to send protection to Maine during the War of 1812 and Massachusetts declined.
Who is James Madison?
These are the three branches of government.
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
The idea that laws, not just one person, rule a nation.
Who is James Madison?