APUSH Test 3 People
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givemesummer on October 9, 2011
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Henry Clay | Speaker of House who eliminated himself as presidential candidate in 1825 |
| Aaron Burr | received same number of electoral votes for President as Jefferson in 1800, throwing election into the House |
| George Washington | 1st president of the US |
| Albert Gallatin | sec. of treasury under JEfferson |
| John Q. Adams | Sec. of state under Monroe |
| William H. Harrison | Am. general of War of 1812 who later became president |
| Winfield Scott | Am. general of War of 1812 who later became presidential candidate |
| John Marshall | a Virginian Federal justice who was frequently at odds with the presidents |
| Alexander Hamilton | 1st sec. of treasury (under Washington) |
| Tecumseh | tried to form a confederacy of Eastern Indians; thwarted by Harrison's victory at Tippecanoe |
| Sacajawea | Indian that accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Samuel Chase | Supreme Court justice impeached but not convicted |
| John Adams | president who made peace with France, ending the military alliance with France |
| John C. Calhoun | Southern senator at first for a high tariff, later for a low one |
| William Clark | led an expedition from the Missouri River to the Columbia River |
| Meriwether Lewis | led an expedition from the Missouri River to the Columbia River |
| Thomas Jefferson | owned slaves but called the Missouri Compromise "like a fire-bell in the night"; bought Louisiana earlier |
| Daniel Webster | Dartmouth's counsel in Dartmouth v. Woodward |
| James Monroe | said, "the Am. continents...are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." |
| John Jay | negotiated a treaty with Britain in 1794 that angered the Jeffersonians |
| John Randolph | opposed the Adams presidency; challenged Clay to a duel; from Virginia, he also opposed the Embargo and War of 1812 |
| James Madison | duped into starting the War of 1812 |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | NY monopoly given license for ferryboat between NY and NJ; federal government alone can control interstate commerce |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | MD tried to tax fed. banknotes; unconstitutional |
| Cohens v. Virginia | Cohens illegally sold lottery tickets; VA court found guilty; est. federal court review of state courts |
| Dartmouth v. Woodward | legislature of NH tried to change the college charter; fed. govt. protects contracts against state encroachments |
| Fletcher v. Peck | GA legislature contracted and sold Yazoo to speculators; new legislature revoked; Court upheld original contract |
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