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Ch 10 s.s. vocab-CC
Question | Answer |
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people who take extreme political positions | radicals |
act under which presedent adams appointed as many federalist judges as he could before thomas jefferson took office | judiciary act of 1801 |
a federalist appointed by president john adams as chief justice of the supreme court | John Marshall |
Supreme Court case in which john marshall declared that a law passed by congress was unconstitutional, thereby establishing the principle of judicial review | marbury v. madison |
a contradiction of the law of the constitution | unconstitutional |
principle hat says that the supreme court has teh final say in interpreting the constitution | judicial review |
an 1803 land purchase from france, which gave the unitd states the port of new orleans and doubled the size of the country | louisiana purchase |
explorer chosen to lead an expedition into the louisiana territory | Meriwether Lewis |
A skilled map maker and outdoorsman chosen to explore the lousiana territory | William Clark |
a trip to explore the louisiana territory | lewis and clark expedition |
A Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped Lewis and Clark | Sacagawea |
An army officer who led an expedition into the southern part of the louisiana teritory | Zebulon Pike |
Kidnnaping salors to work on ships | impressment |
An act passed by congress to stop all foreign trade with the U.S. | Embargo Act of 1807 |
A shawnee chief who tried to unite Native American tribes | Tecumseh |
Westerners who called for war against Britain | War Hawks |
Naval officer whose fleet defeated the British fore on Lake Erie | Oliver Hazard Perry |
Fight in which General Harrison defeated British forces in the Northwest | Battle of the Thames |
A washington lawyer who watched the all-night battle at Fort McHenry and showed his pride by writing what became the national anthem | Francis Scott Key |
Treaty that ended the war of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |