Presidents
Foreign Policy and Land
Vocabulary
Political Parties
The Courts
100

The second president of the U.S.

John Adams

100

Doubled the size of the United States and gave the country full access to the Mississippi River

The Louisiana Purchase

100
What Britain did when it stole sailors off American ships.

Impressment

100

This was the party of the common man.

Democratic-Republican

100

The Alien and Sedition Acts were a violation of this freedom in the Bill of Rights.

Freedom of the press.

200

Washington's Secretary of the Treasury

Alexander Hamilton

200

The Treaty that gave the U.S. Florida

The Adams-Onis Treaty

200

A tax on a foreign good.

Tariff
200

This party supported strong central government.

Federalist

200

This case gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.

Marbury v. Madison

300

The president who bought the Louisiana Purchase.

Thomas Jefferson

300

This policy told European countries to stay away from their former colonies in the Americas. 

The Monroe Doctrine

300

This was a time of increased national pride and reduced party politics during James Monroe's presidency.

The Era of Good Feelings

300

States' rights.

Democratic Republican

300

This case gave the federal government the right to establish a national bank.

McCulloch v. Maryland

400

The first and only president elected unanimously by the states.

George Washington

400

George Washington wanted America's foreign policy to be this.

Neutrality

400

This gives the Supreme Court the right to decide if a law is unconstitutional

Judicial Review

400

Agriculture and farmers

Democratic Republican

400

This case gave the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce.

Gibbons v. Ogden

500

The president during the War of 1812

James Madison

500

This established the rule that a territory needed 60,000 people to become a state.

The Northwest Ordinance

500

This is a first example that sets a standard for others to follow

Precedent

500

Wanted a national bank

Federalist

500

This act created the lower federal courts under the Supreme Court

The Judiciary Act of 1789.

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