Diplomacy & Law
This 1795 agreement with Great Britain, negotiated by John Jay, angered Republicans who felt it favored British interests.
What is Jay's Treaty?
He was the first Vice President and second President, serving during rising tensions with France and signing the Alien and Sedition Acts.
John Adams
A 1794 uprising by Pennsylvania farmers protesting a federal excise tax; President Washington used federal troops to end it.
Whiskey Rebellion
The expedition commissioned by Jefferson to map the newly acquired western territory and find a water route to the Pacific.
Lewis & Clark
The maritime practice that contributed to tensions leading to the War of 1812, where U.S. sailors were seized and forced to serve.
impressment
The 1803 deal that doubled U.S. territory and raised constitutional questions about presidential power
Louisiana Purchase
This Federalist leader and first Secretary of the Treasury favored a strong central government and a national bank.
Alexander hamilton
The act, often paired in topics with impressment, where the British forced American sailors into the Royal Navy
impressment
The leader who completed the Louisiana Purchase negotiations for the United States (name the president).
Thomas Jefferson
The 1797 diplomatic incident with France, referred to by letters that used three anonymous French agents and inflamed calls for preparedness.
XYZ Affair
The 1807 U.S. law that prohibited American ships from trading with foreign ports in an attempt to avoid war; it deeply harmed American commerce.
Embargo Act of 1807
The political faction opposing the Federalists that supported states’ rights and agrarian interests, led by Jefferson.
Republicans (Democratic - Republicans)
The 1798 law that made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government
Sedition Act
A Native leader and confederacy figure who resisted American expansion in the Old Northwest and allied with the British during the War of 1812.
Tecumseh
The U.S. general and later president associated with frontier military victories and populist politics; he fought in the War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
The Supreme Court case that established the principle allowing the Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison (Established judicial review)
The American negotiator whose name is associated with a 1794 treaty and later a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
John Jay
The political theory asserting that states can refuse to enforce federal laws they consider unconstitutional; tied to debates in the early republic
Nullification
The 1815 treaty that ended the War of 1812 and largely restored pre-war borders, though it resolved none of the issues like impressment
treaty of Ghent
The battle (or event) that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the national anthem
The bombardment of Fort McHenry or battle of Baltimore
The 1798 acts passed partly to silence opposition and to allow the government to detain and deport noncitizens; name both acts (one limited speech, one targeted aliens).
Alien and Sedition Acts
This First Lady famously saved a portrait during the War of 1812 attack on Washington, D.C.
Dolley Madison
A protective government charge on imported goods intended to raise revenue and protect domestic industries.
Tariff
The term for agreements made with Native American groups that involved setting aside land, sometimes called a ...
Reservation
The political party that tended to favor close ties with Britain and a strong central government during the 1790s.
Federalist