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Important Terms
The War of 1812
Washington's Presidency
Adams' Presidency
Grab Bag
100
This term means addition.
What is Amendment?
100
The War of 1812 was actually part of a larger global conflict known as this.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
100
This rebellion was put down when Washington led 15,000 troops into Western Pennsylvania to quell the riots.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
100
Adams was a member of this political party.
What is the Federalist Party?
100
Who wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves?
Who are Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
200
This term refers to a person who is not a citizen of the nation in which he/she lives.
What is an alien?
200
This Native American Chieftain, of the Shawnee tribe, led a native insurrection along the Mississippi River Valley during the War of 1812. He was killed at the Battle of the Thames.
Who is Tecumseh?
200
This was Washington's response to the French Revolution.
What is to declare neutrality?
200
He was John Adams' Vice President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Thomas Jefferson negotiated this treaty with Napoleon, doubling the size of the United States overnight and giving the U.S. control of New Orleans.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
This term is defined as breaking away, as in a state breaking away from a nation.
What is secession?
300
Two reasons for the United States declaring war on Britain in 1812.
What is 1. British impressment of American sailors, 2. War Hawks in Congress pushing for annexation of Canada, 3. Belief that the British were encouraging Indian raids in the Ohio River Valley.
300
This important precedent set by Washington was not broken until 1941.
What is serving only two terms as President?
300
This event occurred when three French government officials demanded a huge bribe from American representatives before they would be allowed to meet with the French Prime Minister Tallyrand.
What is the XYZ Affair?
300
The major effects of the Marshall Court.
What is to support a loose interpretation of the Constitution and to strengthen Federal government?
400
This is a type of tax placed on the manufacture of a product. The Whiskey Tax is an example.
What is an excise tax?
400
This treaty ended the War of 1812. Its major provisions essentially established a status quo antebellum.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
400
Washington stated in his retirement speech that "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is...to have with them as little political connection as possible...." Washington was urging this.
What is avoid permanent foreign alliances.
400
On the eve of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration, John Adams made many of these to the Judiciary.
What are Midnight Appointments?
400
Its major provisions included admission of Missouri and Maine as states (Missouri slave, Maine free) and prohibiting slavery north of 36/30.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
This is the formal process, conducted by Congress, used to determine if a government official has committed crimes serious enough to warrant removal from office. It is analogous to a Grand Jury trial in the criminal system.
What is impeachment?
500
This battle guaranteed ratification of the Treaty of Ghent and prevented the formation of a British colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
500
The XYZ Affair outraged Americans and led to the abrogation of a 1778 peace treaty. The resulting conflict between the U.S. and France was called this.
What is the Quasi-War?
500
This convention, convened in New England during the War of 1812, proposed several amendments to the Constitution and expressed a lack of confidence in the war. It helped bring the Federalist Party to an end when the U.S. won the war.
What is the Hartford Convention?