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Vocabulary
Who Am I?
The Louisiana Purchase
The War of 1812
Potpourri
100
The practice of forcing sailors to serve in the Royal Navy.
What is impressment?
100
I yelled "Sic semper tyrannus" after assassinating Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
President Thomas Jefferson defended his purchase of the Louisiana Territory under this Constitutional power.
What is the power to make treaties with foreign nations?
100
Act imposed by President Jefferson in 1807 as a way to show America's neutrality in the war between France and Great Britain, it prohibited virtually all commerce with foreign nations.
What is the Embargo Act?
100
The name given to the judicial appointments made by President John Adams in the final hours of his presidency in order to maintain a Federalist hold in the judiciary.
What are the midnight appointments?
200
The authority of the Supreme Court to examine all laws passed by Congress and reject those it feels are unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
200
Our first Secretary of the Treasury, he was an expert in finance and came up with a multi-step financial plan for the U.S. which included creation of a national bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
Two main reasons why Napoleon wanted to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
What are that: 1) He needed money to finance his military campaigns in Europe(especially against Britain) 2) His dream of building an empire in America was shattered when Haiti won independence.
200
Passed by Congress in 1809, this act only prohibited trade with Great Britain and France, but was still unpopular because most American trade was with Great Britain and France anyway.
What is the Nonintercourse Act?
200
Name this event: The French's resentment of The United States' signing the Jay Treaty with Great Britain led to them seizing American ships. President Adams then sent men to negotiate with France and those men were told they must pay a bribe of $250,000 and offer a loan of several million dollars.
What is the XYZ affair?
300
To break away or withdraw from a union, (especially a government) with the intention of starting a new government.
What is to secede?
300
Hero and victor over the British at the Battle of New Orleans, he also won a decisive victory over the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend. The Creek were forced to cede two-thirds of their land to the United States.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
Name two reasons Jefferson wanted to acquire the Louisiana Territory.
What are that: 1) He feared Napoleon might try to use the territory as a base to build his empire in the West and he might close American shipping in New Orleans because they were at war with Great Britain and 2) New settlements and people were sprouting up in that territory and their security was threatened unless the federal government could protect them with official ownership.
300
Convention where 26 New England delegates(angered by their loss of profit in the trading industry due to British blockades)gathered to protest President Madison's conduct of war, and threatened to secede from the Union and form their own federation if their demands were not met.
What is the Hartford Convention?
300
These acts passed by Congress and signed by President John Adams were supposedly passed to protect the nation from foreign treachery, by allowing the President to deport or imprison foreigners during wartime. They also called for the fining or imprisonment of anyone who spoke out, or impeded the progress of, the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
400
The taking of responsibility by the national government over the financial debts of the states.
What is assumption?
400
Had a dinner that was interrupted when the British invaded Washington D.C. Her quick thinking saved several important government documents, as well as George Washington's portrait from falling into British hands when they burned the White House and Capitol to the ground.
Who is Dolley Madison?
400
Name three objectives President Jefferson gave to Lewis and Clark for their expedition of the Louisiana Territory.
What were: 1) to gather information about the flow of rivers and the availability of natural resources, 2) Study the climate, plant growth and geology, 3) See if a Northwest Passage with an easy water route across North America existed to make travel and trading easier.
400
These two American victories were major turning points in the war of 1812.
What are Captain Oliver Hazard Perry's defeat of a British fleet on Lake Erie and General Harrison's victory over a British and Indian force at the Battle of the Thames?(Also would accept Defense of Baltimore/Ft. McHenry)
400
Name two actions President Jefferson took with regard to the Barbary Coast pirates.
What are: 1) He sent a squadron of 8 naval vessels to blockade the Tripoli harbor, 2) The "Philadelphia" was captured by pirates but later burned by Americans (the Intrepid)so it couldn't be used against us. 3) Marines landed in Tripoli and forced the Barbary States to make peace.
500
The literal interpretation of the Constitution that says that the federal government has only those powers specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is strict construction?
500
Second cousin of F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wrote the Star Spangled Banner after seeing the American flag still flying at Ft. McHenry in Baltimore after a 3 day bombardment by the British
Who is Francis Scott Key?
500
The cost of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is 15 million dollars?(less than 3 cents an acre)
500
War Hawks under Henry Clay, hoped to gain these two things from a war with Great Britain.
What are: 1) an opportunity to expand the territory of the United States by acquiring Canada from Britain, and 2) they also wanted to end British support of Native Americans who resisted the influx of settlers into the Northwest Territory.
500
George Washington's Constitutional basis for forming the first Cabinet (including the Attorney General, Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury) was this Article of the Constitution.
What is Article 2? (The President could require the opinion in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments)