History ch. 9 test
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- secede
- to leave or withdraw from the union
- Embargo Act (American commerce)
- devastated American commerce
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- commander of Lake Erie naval forces. "We have the enemy and they are ours"
- New Orleans
- located at the bottom of the Mississipi River delta belonged to Spain
- Embargo Act
- banned trade with all foreign countries
- War Hawks
- a group of young republicans who wanted war with Britain
- Battle of Thames
- tecumseh was killed
- Election of 1800 (candidates)
- Aron Burr and Thomas Jefferson
- John Marshall
- chief justice who made the ruling on Marbury vs. Madison
- Size of the Loisiana Purchase
- doubled the size of the US
- laissez- faire
- french term meaning let people do as they choose. Government should play a small part in the economy
- Sacagawea
- Shoshone women who helped Lewis and Clark
- neutral rights
- the right to sail the seas and not take sides
- Prophet
- tecumseh's brother and ally
- Conestoga Wagon
- sturdy vehicles topped with white canvas
- tecumseh
- shawnee chief built a confederacy among the native american tribes
- Expedition leaders
- Merriwether Lewis and William Clark
- privateer
- armed private ships
- Election of 1800 (situation)
- tie and vote went to house of reps
- Spain and France's agreement
- secretly transferred the Louisiana Territory from Spain to France
- Toussaint Louverture
- Leader of the revolt in Santo Domingo
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- was forced to abandon plans for an American empire because of a revolt in Santo Domingo in 1802
- Twelfth Amendment
- requires electors to vote for president and vice president on separate ballots
- Embargo Act (British Trade)
- Britain traded with South America for agricultural goods
- Gen Wm Harrison
- governor of indiana led the battle of Tippecanoe against Prophetstown
- Election of 1800 (alexander hamilton)
- convinces one house member to vote for jefferson
- frigate
- a fast warship designed for battle
- Zebulon Pike
- led two expeditons through the upper mississipi valley and into the region now known as Colorado
- tribute
- protection money
- embargo
- prohibits trade with another country