APUSH Vocab Quiz 9-11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Revolution of 1800 | the election of 1800 in which Jefferson emerged as the victor |
| patronage | political parties granted jobs and favors to party regulars who delivered votes on election day (conflict within Republican party) |
| Judiciary Act of 1801 | passed by the departing federalist congress, it created sixteen new federal judgeships ensuring a federalist hold on the judiciary |
| midnight judges | federal justices appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency; positions revoked when the newly elected Republican Congress repealed the Judiciary Act |
| Marbury Vs. Madison | SC case that established the principle of "judicial review" (idea that SC had the final authority to determine constitutionality) |
| Tripolitan War | four-year conflict between the American navy and the North African nation of Tripoli over piracy in the Mediterranean; Jefferson deployed American forces and secured a peace treaty with Tripoli |
| Louisiana Purchase | acquisition of LA from France; doubled US territory |
| Corps of Discovery | team of adventurers led by Lewis and Clark, sent by Jefferson to explore LA territory; found water route to Pacific |
| orders in council | edicts issued by the British crown closing French-owned European ports to foreign shipping; French cut off American merchants from trade with both parties |
| impressment | act of forcibly drafting an individual into a military service (British navy against US seamen in times of war against France) |
| Chesapeake affair | conflict between Britain and US that precipitated the 1807 embargo; British ships fired on America Chesapeake off of VA coast |
| embargo act | enacted in response to British and French mistreatment of AM merchants, banned exports of all goods from US to any foreign port; strains on US eco not European eco |
| non-intercourse act | passed alongside the repeal of the embargo act; reopened trade with all nations but BR and FR |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 | aimed at resuming peaceful trade with BR and FR; Napolean offered to lift restrictions on BR ports, so america was forced to declare embargo |
| war hawks | demo-republican congressmen who pressed Madison to declare war on BR (resented BR constraint on AM trade) |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | resulted in defeat of Shawnee chief Tenskwatawa at hands of William Henry Harrison in Indiana; Tecumseh forged an alliance with the British against the US |
| Sally Hemmings | slave that Jefferson was rumored to be intimate with; confirmed through DNA testing |
| Albert Gallatin | secretary of treasury to Hamilton; "watchdog of the treasury" |
| John Marshall | chief Justice of the supreme court; served at Valley Forge; federalist |
| Samuel Chase | SC justice who Republicans wanted impeached |
| Napoleon | sold all of LA and gave up his dream for a New World empire |
| Robert Livingston | American minister who negotiated in Paris for New Orleans when asked how much he would pay for all LA; signed for all of LA for 15 million dollars |
| Toussaint LOuverture | ex-slave who was betrayed by the French and indirectly set up the sale of LA to the US |
| Lewis and Clark | on Corps of discovery around newly purchased LA territory |
| Aaron Burr | Jefferson's first term VP, federalist extremist plotted secession of New England and New York; Hamilton foiled the plan; killed Hamilton in a duel |
| Madison | fourth president; |
| Tecumseh | Shawnee brother who welded together confederacy of Indian tribes in the Mississippi area |
| Tenskwatawa | "the Prophet" Indian to non-Indians |
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