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| Built a fleet of green-timbered ships on the shores of Lake Eire, managed by even greener seamen. He was victorious and forced redcoats to withdraw from detroit and fort malden. |
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| When he was 30 years old, he commanded a weak American fleet in Lake Champlain and beat the British. |
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| Victor of the Battle of the Thames and war hero of the War of 1812. |
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| Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner |
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| an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
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| popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. |
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| the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun, a brilliant orator and writer, began his political career as a nationalist and proponent of protective tariffs; later, he was a proponent of free trade, states' rights, limited government, and nullification. |
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"Godlike Daniel" "Expounding Father"
Had a seat in the senate, federalist, and nationalist. Super successful lawyer |
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| 1819, a failed attempt by the state of MD to destroy a branch of the B of the US by imposing a tax on its notes. "Implied powers" made the Bank constitutional. |
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| 1821, Cohens found guilty by VA corts of illegally selling lottery tickets. Conviction upheld. Supreme court had power to review the decisions of the state courts in all questions involving pwrs of federal gov't. |
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| 1824, an attempt by NY to grant to a private concern a monopoly of waterborne commerce btwn NY and NJ. Marshall reminded NY that Congress controls interstate commerce. |
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| introduced by John C. Calhoun to provide a federal highway linking The East and South to The West using the earnings Bonus from the Second Bank of the United States. |
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| War of 1812, central Alabama.US forces and Indian allies beat the Red Sticks, who had been inspired by Tecumseh. |
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| 1810, a Georgia legislature was bribed to grant 35 mill acres in the Yazoo River country to private speculators. Marshall decreed that the legislative grant was a contract and that the constitution forbids state laws impairing contracts |
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| Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
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| 1819, college had a charter from England, but NH state legislature tried to change it. Constitution protects contracts against state encroachments. Safeguarded business enterprises. |
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| permitted Americans to share the Newfoundand fisheries with Canada. Fixed the vague northern limits of Louisiana. 10 yr joint occupation of Oregon. |
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| Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, gave Florida and Oregon to US in exchange for US abandonment of Texas |
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| a decisive American victory in the War of 1812. It took place on October 5, 1813, near present-day Chatham, Ontario in Upper Canada. It resulted in the death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, and the destruction of the Native American coalition which he led. |
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| eliminated the purchase of public land in the United States on credit. It also reduced the minimum size of the tract from 160 to 80 acres |
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| Russo-American Treaty of 1824 |
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| It gave Russian claims on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America south of parallel 54°40′ north over what Americans know as the Oregon Country to the United States. |
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Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.
denied the British negotiators at Ghent leverage to demand any territorial claims against the United States |
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