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- 1. at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, led an expedition to survey the land West of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory, that had been purchased from France in 1803.
- 5. A series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
- 7. A 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats.
- 9. A 1903 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it had the power to abolish legislative acts by declaring them unconstitutional; this power came to be known as Judicial review.
- 10. is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government.
- 12. was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.
- 15. was an American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
- 16. was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution.
- 17. Was a Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early years of the nineteenth century.
- 18. was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who is known for her help to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- 19. The 1814 treaty that ended the War of 1812.
- 20. The American System was an economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century.
- 21. Great Britain was locked in a long and bitter conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte's France. In an attempt to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy, both sides attempted to block the United States from trading with the other.
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- 2. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
- 3. The 1803 purchase by the United States of France’s Louisiana territory-extending from the Mississippi river to the rocky mountains-- for 15 Million.
- 4. A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.
- 6. is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional.
- 8. One of the members of Congress who favored war with Britain in the early 19th century.
- 11. One of the judges appointed by John Adams in the last hours of his administration.
- 13. the right to vote in political elections.
- 14. An American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States.