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| Washington's farewell address |
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| a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States". Washington wrote the letter near the end of his second term as President, before his retirement to his home Mount Vernon. Originally published in David Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796 under the title "The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States," the letter was almost immediately reprinted in newspapers across the country and later in a pamphlet form. |
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| (1755-1804) American statesman, signer of the United States Constitution |
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| a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution, and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792. |
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| also known as Citizen Genêt, was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. |
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| were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War. |
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| metimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. |
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| the third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson. |
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| in the beginning of the 19th century was a suspected treasonous cabal of planters, politicians, and army officers led by former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. According to the accusations against him, Burr’s goal was to create an independent nation in the center of North America and/or the Southwest and parts of Mexico. |
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| Jeffferson's acts against the British, was made to stop all trade between the British. |
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| represented an effort to solve an issue in the U.S. Supreme Court during the early 19th century. There was concern, beginning in 1789, about the system that required the justices of the Supreme Court to “ride circuit” and reiterate decisions made in the appellate level courts. |
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| advocate of federalism; member of the Federalist party |
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| uprising in 1794 by farmers in western Pennsylvania to protest the federal excise tax on liquor that was established in 1791 |
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| any of several statutes relating to the organization of national court systems |
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| 2nd president of the United States (1797-1801) |
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| Virginia and Kentucky resolutions |
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| political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. |
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| American statesman, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd president of the United States (1801-1809) |
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| Barbary Pirates Impressment |
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| Controlled trade by making people pay to cross them, kind of like a toll bridge. |
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| a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship and American frigate , when the crew of the Leopard pursued, attacked and boarded the American frigate looking for deserters from the British Navy. |
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| Known as one of the greatest buys in history, bought for pennies on the acre, and doubles the American land and resources. |
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| as a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. |
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| t to be confused with the modern Republican Party (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. |
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| battle between white American settlers and American Indians that took place in the Maumee River Valley in 1794 (in present-day Ohio) |
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| was a 1798 diplomatic episode during the administration of John Adams that Americans interpreted as an insult from France. It led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War, which raged at sea from 1798 to 1800. The Federalist Party took advantage of the national anger to build an army and pass the Alien and Sedition Acts to damage the rival Democratic-Republican Party. |
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| also known as the "Corps of Discovery Expedition" (1804–1806), was the first expedition to the Pacific coast undertaken by the United States. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, it was led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Their objectives were both scientific and commercial – to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to learn how the region could be exploited economically. |
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| to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1801 and 1835, when John Marshall served as Chief Justice. |
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| was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. Tecumseh has become an icon and heroic figure in American Indian and Canadian history. |
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| took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812. American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. |
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| battles fought between white American settlers and American Indians in the area of present-day Ohio in 1881 (U.S. History) |
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| signed on 24 December 1814, in Ghent (modern-day Belgium), was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the Great Britain. The treaty largely restored relations between the two nations to status quo ante bellum, with no loss of territory either way. |
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| was an event in 1814–1815 in the United States in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the domination of the Federal Government by Presidents from Virginia. Despite many outcries in the Federalist press for New England secession and a separate peace with Great Britain, moderates dominated the Convention and such extreme proposals were not a major focus of the convention's debate. |
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