social studies test

Louisiana Purchase

-Signed in 3/30/1803

-A transaction with France which the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River

-Proposed by Thomas Jefferson

-The United States doubled in size because of this purchase

XYZ Affair

-Major diplomatic scandal in 1797-1798 where French agents demanded a large bribe loan from the American diplomats to negotiate amend to French seizure of U.S ships

-lead an undeclared naval conflict (quasi war)

“Quasi warfare”

-conflict that uses non-military and military means to achieve strategic goals blurring the lines between war and peace

Marburg vs Maddison

-1303 a landmark supreme courts establishing judicial review power to declare unconstitutional (the supreme court courts acts of congress )

The Monroe doctrine

-Declared by president James Monroe in 1823, was a U.S foreign policy stating the Americas were closed to further European colonization + intervention; in exchange the U.S would not interfere European affairs

The Missouri compromise and its results

-1820

-was a U.S law that interfered with admitted Missouri as a European affairs slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power in congress and prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana purchase territories

First 5 presidents in order

-George Washington

-John Adam’s

-Thomas Jefferson

-James Maddison

-James Monroe

The “Era of good feelings”

-marked a period of time in the political history of the United States, that reflected a sense of national purpose - desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the war of 1812

Francis Scott key

-American poet and lawyer

-wrote the poem “The Star Spangled Banner”-was inspired after seeing the U.S flag still flying after a British attack

The Battle of Fort McHenry

-a moment in the was 1212 where American defenders repelled a naval bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland

The Embargo Act, its purpose verse its actual impact

-The embargo act is a law that was passed in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson

-The purpose was to band American ships from trading with foreign parts aiming to pressure Britain and France to respect the U.S neutrality

-The impact was severely damaged economy and farmers and merchants making them smuggle more

The was of 1812

-caught between the U.S and Great Britain from 1812-1815, it was caused by impressment and trade restrictions and British interference

—The important event that happened because of this were the bombing of Washington D.C and The Battle of Fort McHenry

-The war ended with the treaty of Ghent-increased national pride and showed the U.S could defend itself