Christ and the Americas: Chapter 11 People, Places, and Things
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GallagherGirl039 on January 3, 2011
Classes:
Seton American History, JPII Prep
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13 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Creoles | American-born Spaniards |
| Grand Blancs | Wealthies, most powerful Creole families on Saint Domingue |
| Petit Blances | Middle-class families on Saint Domingue; tended to be liberal and racist |
| Toussaint | called himself "L'Ouverture" - "the opening" |
| Talleyrand | France's devious foreign miniser; a "former" bishop |
| William Marbury | filed suit in Supreme Court for the delivery of a writ of mandamus to Madision |
| John Marshall | Federalist Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Lewis and Clark | Commissioned by Jefferson to find the western boundaries of the Louisiana Territory |
| William Hull | U.S. General who surrendered Detroit to the British in 1812 without firing a shot |
| Isaac Hull | Commander of the "Constitution"; sailed out of port to avoid Madision's orders |
| William Henry Harrison | Major General sent to revitalize the Army and retake Detroit |
| Oliver Perry | Commodore ordered by Madison to fight the British at Lake Erie |
| Andrew Jackson | Defeated the British with 2,500 volunteers at New Orleans |
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