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A Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped Lewis and Clark.
Who was Sacagawea?
Meriwether Lewis's heroic Newfoundland dog saved the lives of the expedition members many times.
Who was Seaman?
The third President of The U.S.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review. Murbury sued for a job position promised to him by President John Adams.
What was Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
Territory in the western United States was purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
What was The Louisiana Purchase?
A war between the U.S. and Great Britain was caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier.
What was The War of 1812?
The fourth President of the U.S.
Who was James Madison?
Sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States and reach the Pacific Ocean.
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition (officially known as the Corps of Discovery)?
The fifth President of the U.S.
Who was James Monroe?
The Supreme Court upheld the power of the national government and denied the right of a state to tax the federal bank using the Constitution's supremacy clause. The Court's broad interpretation of the necessary and proper clause paved the way for later rulings upholding expansive federal powers.
What was McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
What was The Columbian Exchange?
Practice of seizing Americans at sea and drafting in the British or French navies.
What is impressment?
The sixth President of the U.S.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
President Jefferson was most interested in this being present in the Louisiana Purchase's territory.
What was the Northwest Passage?
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He established the dominance of the federal government over the states.
Who was John Marshall?
A case in which the Supreme Court prevented New Hampshire from changing a school's charter to make it a public institution; the Court held that the contract clause of the Constitution extended to charters and that contracts could not be invalidated by state law. The case was one of a series of Court decisions that limited states' power and promoted business interests.
What was Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)?
A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats.
What was The XYZ Affair?
Do not form alliances with foreign nations, do not get involved in foreign wars, and do not support political parties fighting one another.
What three things did President Washington warn against in his farewell to the American people?
The dictator of France, whom the U.S. bought the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Napoléon Bonaparte?
This is the nation where potatoes originate.
What is Peru?
Purchasing Louisiana from France and thereby doubling the size of the U.S.
What was the most important accomplishment of President Thomas Jefferson?
Supreme Court Case which ruled that the laws of Georgia had no force within the boundaries of the Cherokee territory and supported the Cherokees.
What was Worcester v. GA?
This law ended all of America's importation and exportation. Jefferson hoped it would pressure the French and British to recognize U.S. neutrality rights in exchange for U.S. goods. Really, however, just hurt Americans and our economy and got repealed in 1809.
What was The Embargo Act of 1807?
This political party, established by Hamilton, wanted a stronger central government.
What was The Federalist Party?
The Aztec emperor who believed Cortés was the returning Quetzalcoatl was then defeated by Cortés when Cortés took over the Aztec Empire.
Who was Emperor Montezuma II?
A 1793 statement by President Washington that the United States would not support or aid either France or Britain in their European conflict following the French Revolution.
What was The Neutrality Proclamation?
The 9th President of the U.S., who had the shortest term in office. The leader of U.S. forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
Allows the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of laws.
What is judicial review?
They were opposing the Constitution. They favoured a weaker national government. Led by rural living Americans and under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, who wanted state governments to be supreme.
What was The Anti-Federalists/Democratic Party?
A Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes. The league of tribes was defeated by an American army led by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Who was Tecumseh?
Passed by Federalists, signed by President Adams; increased waiting period for an immigrant to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years, empowered the president to arrest and deport dangerous aliens, & made it illegal to publish defamatory statements about the federal government or its officials.
What were The Alien and Sedition Acts?
North African states that practiced state-supported piracy and harassed American merchant ships for bribes to get through the Mediterranean Sea. The very first foreign nations the U.S. Government went to war with.