Definition | Term |
James Monroe's Secretary of State responsible for the Monroe Doctrine and the purchase of Florida | |
Collection of persuasive essays published in favor of the new Constitution | |
House of Congress where each state gets an equal number of votes | |
Term for peaceful transition of power from Adams to Jefferson in 1800 | |
Judge that the Federalists wanted to remove. Their failure to do so established the precedent of an independent judiciary | |
Passed by John Adams to make criminal speaking negatively about the President or the Government | |
The nation's first protective tariff aimed at protecting infant American industries | |
Controversial treaty with Britain that declared Britain would leave forts in NW and Americans would be responsible to pay back debts to British merchants | |
Ended the Embargo Act of 1807 | |
Uprising led by a group of Massachusetts farmers and Revolutionary vets upset about losing their farms | |
Explorers sent out to explore Louisiana | |
House of Congress determined by population | |
Provided for a bicameral legislature | |
The Treaty of 1818 provided joint control of this territory by the United States and Great Britain | |
Connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. Known as 'Clinton's Big Ditch' | |
Group not in favor of ratification of the new Constitution | |
Group of Congressmen calling for war with Britain in the early 1800s. | |
Father of the Constitution | |
Group of pirates in Africa that Jefferson sent the navy in to regulate | |
Group in favor of ratification of the new Constitution | |
Intended to motive Britain and France to stop seizing American ships by lifting the embargo if they agreed. | |
Act of Congress that established the federal court system | |