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Chapter 7 Jeffersonian America Study online at quizlet.com/_gw5c6 1. 2. Battle of Tippecanoe Resulted in the defeat of the Shawnee Chief Tenskwatawa, "the Prophet" at the hands William Henry Harrison in the Indiana wilderness. After this, Tecumseh, forged an alliance with the British against the US. Chesapeake Affair An incident in 1807 when the British ship the Leopard fired at an American ship. The British abducted four American sailors, whom they charged were deserters from the Royal Navy. Commonwealth v. Hunt Landmark ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions. 4. Cotton Gin Eli Whitney's invention for removing seeds from cotton thus expanding agriculture and increasing the need for slave labor. 5. Daniel Webster A Repbulican and soon to be Whig from the state of Massachuetts. He held major political offices, serving terms in the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate and as well as secretary of state under three different presidents. 3. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Dartmouth College v. Woodward U.S. Supreme Court upheld the charter of this establishment aganist New Hampshire's attempt to alter the board of trustees; set precedent of support of contracts against state interference. Denmark Vesey Uprising An alleged plot led by a free blackman, to free slaves in Charleston and kill their masters. Embargo Act of 1807 The cornerstone of Jefferson's plan of peaceable coercion that attempted to block US trade with England and France to force them to respect US neutrality. Era of Good Feelings A term that the press coined to describe the absence of bitter partisan conflict during the presidency of James Monroe. Gibbons v. Ogden U.S. Supreme Court decision reinforcing the "commerce clause" (the fed govt's right to regulate interstate commerce) of the Constitution: Chief Justice Marshall ruled against the State of New York's granting of steamboat monopolies. Harford Convention A meeting of Federalists to protest the War of 1812. They proposed several amendments intended to weaken the powers of the slave states and protect New England interests. 12. Henry Clay A Republican Congressmen from Kentuck who were intensely nationalistic, resented the British, wanted to wage war against the Indians, and wanted to annex Canada. He was a warhawk. He held major political offices, serving terms in the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate and as as secretary of state. 13. Impressment The practice of forcing merchant seamen to serve in the British navy. John C. Calhoun A Republican Congressmen from South Carolina who were intensely nationalistic, resented the British, wanted to wage war against the Indians, and wanted to annex Canada. He was a warhawk. He held major political offices, serving terms in the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate and as the seventh Vice President of the United States (1825-1832), as well as secretary of war and state. Louisiana Purchase The acquisition by the US of this Territory from France in 1803, thereby securing control of the Mississippi River and nearly doubling the size of the nation. Macon's Bill No. 2 Aimed at resuming peaceful trade with Britain and France, the act stipulated that if either Britain or France repealed its trade restrictions, the US would reinstate the embargo against the nonrepealing nation. Marbury v. Madison First U.S. Supreme Court decision to declare a federal law- the Judiciary Act of 1801unconstitutional. This case established the principle of "Judicial Review" the idea that the S.C. had the final authority to determine constitutionality. McCulloch v. Maryland U.S. Supreme Court decision in which Chief Justice John Marshall, holding that a state could not tax the Second Bank of the US, supported the authority of the federal government versus the states. Midnight Judges 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. Missouri Compromise This agreement allowed one state to enter as a slave state, and another admitted as a free state to preserve the balance of slave and free states in Congress. The law also drew an imaginary line through the Louisiana Territory. Slavery was prohibited north of this line. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Monroe Doctrine A foreign policy statment declaring that the Americas were no longer open to colonization and that the US would view any effort to reassert colonial control over independent nations in the Western Hemisphere as a threat to America. NonIntercourse Act Passed alongside the repeal of an earlier act, it reopened trade with all but the two belligerent natins, Britain and France. The Act continued Jefferson's policy of economic coercion, still with little effect. Panic of 1819 A downturn in the American economy that plunged the nation into depression and economic hardship. Rush-Bagot Agreement Signed by Britain and the US, it established strict limits on naval armaments in the Great Lakes. War Hawks Young Republican congressmen from the South and Western regions of the country who favored Western expansion and war with Britain.