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| Conflict between Britain and the United States that precipitated the 1807 embargo. The conflict developed when a British ship, in search of deserters, fired on the American Chesapeake off the coast of Virginia |
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| Corps of Discovery (1804-1806) |
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| Team of adventurers, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore Louisiana Territory and find a water route to the Pacific. Louis and Clark brought back detailed accounts of the West’s flora, fauna and native populations, and their voyage demonstrated the viability of overland travel to the west. |
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| Enacted in response to British and French mistreatment of American merchants, the Act banned the export of all goods from the United States to any foreign port. The embargo placed great strains on the American economy while only marginally affecting its European targets, and was therefore repealed in 1809. |
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| Act of forcibly drafting an individual into military service, employed by the British navy against American seamen in times of war against France, 1793–1815. Impressment was a continual source of conflict between Britain and the United States in the early national period. |
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| Passed by the departing Federalist Congress, it created sixteen new federal judgeships ensuring a Federalist hold on the judiciary. |
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| Louisiana Purchase (1803) |
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| Acquisition of Louisiana territory from France. The purchase more than doubled the territory of the United States, opening vast tracts for settlement. |
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| Aimed at resuming peaceful trade with Britain and France, the act stipulated that if either Britain or France repealed its trade restrictions, the United States would reinstate the embargo against the nonrepealing nation. When Napoleon offered to lift his restrictions on British ports, the United States was forced to declare an embargo on Britain, thereby pushing the two nations closer toward war. |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) |
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| Supreme Court case that established the principle of “judicial review”—the idea that the Supreme Court had the final authority to determine constitutionality. |
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| Federal justices appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency. Their positions were revoked when the newly-elected Republican Congress repealed the Judiciary Act. |
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| Federal justices appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency. Their positions were revoked when the newly-elected Republican Congress repealed the Judiciary Act. |
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| Non-Intercourse Act (1809) |
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| Passed alongside the repeal of the Embargo Act, it reopened trade with all but the two belligerent nations, Britain and France. The Act continued Jefferson’s policy of economic coercion, still with little effect. |
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| Orders in Council (1806-1807) |
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| Edicts issued by the British Crown closing French-owned European ports to foreign shipping. The French responded by ordering the seizure of all vessels entering British ports, thereby cutting off American merchants from trade with both parties. |
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| Practice of rewarding political support with special favors, often in the form of public office. Upon assuming office, Thomas Jefferson dismissed few Federalist employees, leaving scant openings to fill with political appointees. |
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| Electoral victory of Democratic Republicans over the Federalists, who lost their Congressional majority and the presidency. The peaceful transfer of power between rival parties solidified faith in America’s political system. |
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| Battle of Tippecanoe(1811) |
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| Resulted in the defeat of Shawnee chief Tenskwatawa, “the Prophet” at the hands William Henry Harrison in the Indiana wilderness. After the battle, the Prophet’s brother, Tecumseh, forged an alliance with the British against the United States. |
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| Tripolitan War (1801-1805) |
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| Four-year conflict between the American Navy and the North-African nation of Tripoli over piracy in the Mediterranean. Jefferson, a staunch noninterventionist, reluctantly deployed American forces, eventually securing a peace treaty with Tripoli. |
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| Democratic-Republican Congressmen who pressed James Madison to declare war on Britain. Largely drawn from the South and West, the war hawks resented British constraints on American trade and accused the British of supporting Indian attacks against American settlements on the frontier. |
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| Strong believer in strict construction, weak government, and antimilitarism who was forced to modify some of his principles in office |
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| Swiss-born treasury secretary who disliked national debt but kept most Hamiltonian economic measures in effect |
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| Federalist Supreme Court justice whose brilliant legal efforts established the principle of judicial review |
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| Ruling based on a midnight judge case that established the right of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional |
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| Federalist Supreme Court justice impeached by the House in 1804 but acquitted by the Senate |
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| One of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves at Monticello, whose affair with Jefferson has been confirmed by modern DNA evidence |
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| French ruler who acquired Louisiana from Spain only to sell it to the United States |
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| American minister to Paris who joined James Monroe in making a magnificent real estate deal |
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| Gifted black revolutionary whose successful slave revolution indirectly led to Napoleon’s sale of Louisiana |
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| Young army officer who joined Jefferson’s personal secretary in exploring the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon country |
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| Former vice-president, killer of Alexander Hamilton, and plotter of mysterious secessionist schemes |
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| Shoshoni Indian who provided valuable guidance and assistance to Lewis and Clark as they crossed the Rocky Mountains. |
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| Traitorous military governor of Louisiana who joined Aaron Burr’s conspiracy to break off parts of the southwest from the United States |
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| Shawnee leader who organized a major Indian confederation against U.S. expansion |
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| Military leader who defeated Tecumseh’s brother, “the Prophet,” at the Battle of Tippecanoe |
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