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  1. 2. American sailors into the Royal Navy was the most important for many Americans. The British practice of manning naval ships with "pressed" men, who were forcibly placed into service
  2. 3. American statesman, political theorist and the fourth President of the United States
  3. 6. an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  4. 9. the act of Congress (1809) prohibiting all shipping and trade between the United States and British- or French-controlled ports.
  5. 12. any of the congressmen from the South and West, led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun, who wanted war against Britain in the period leading up to the War of 1812
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  1. 1. fourth Chief Justice of the United States. His court opinions helped lay the basis for United States constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States
  2. 4. was 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.
  3. 5. set out in May 1804 to explore and map the American West.
  4. 7. the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  5. 8. signed on December 24, 1814- was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  6. 10. Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during the War of 1812.
  7. 11. Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States