Early U.S. History: Constitution, Expansion & Jacksonian Era

Mad Anthony Wayne

Fallen Timbers victory

10th Amendment

Reserved state powers

2nd War of Independence

War of 1812

Aaron Burr

Hamilton pamphlet scandal

Albert Gallatin

Reduced national debt

Alexander Hamilton

National Bank founder

Alien & Sedition Acts

Restricted immigrant rights

American System

Bank tariffs improvements

Andrew Jackson

Old Hickory president

Anti-Masonic Party

Anti-secret society

Barbary Pirates

North African raiders

Battle of New Orleans

Jackson defeats British

Bill of Rights

First ten amendments

Black Hawk War

Sauk Fox conflict

Charles C. Pinckney

XYZ Affair diplomat

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Domestic dependent nation

Cherokee Phoenix

Native American newspaper

Clay's Compromise

Gradually lowered tariffs

Commodore Oliver H. Perry

Lake Erie victory

Commodore Thomas Macdonough

Lake Champlain victory

Corps of Discovery

Lewis Clark expedition

Critical Period

Weak national government

Dahlonega

Georgia gold discovery

Daniel Boone

Western frontier settlement

Daniel Shays

Farmers' rebellion leader

Daniel Webster

Defended federal supremacy

Edmund Genet

French ambassador scandal

Elias Boudinot

Cherokee Phoenix editor

Essex Junto

Northern secession plot

Force Bill

Military tariff enforcement

Francis Scott Key

Star-Spangled Banner

Gen. Henry Lee

Whiskey Rebellion commander

George Washington

First U.S. president

Georgia

Fourth ratifying state

Great Compromise

Bicameral Congress representation

Hartford Convention

Federalist secession meeting

Henry Clay

American System advocate

Indian Removal Act

Forced Native relocation

James Madison

Father Constitution

Jefferson Davis

Confederate president later

John Adams

Second U.S. president

John C. Calhoun

Nullification states' rights

John Eaton

Petticoat Affair

John Jay

Jay's Treaty negotiator

John Rutledge

Committee of Detail

Land Ordinance of 1785

Western land surveying

Logan Act

Unauthorized foreign negotiations

Louisiana Purchase

France sells territory

Lt. Zebulon Pike

Explored western Louisiana

March 4, 1801

Jefferson inauguration date

March 4, 1829

Jackson inauguration date

Martin Van Buren

Jackson's chosen successor

Maryland State Constitution

Wealthy landowners rule

May 25, 1787

Constitutional Convention begins

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

Explored Louisiana Territory

Nashborough

Future Nashville settlement

National Census

Every ten years

Naturalization Act

Fourteen-year citizenship requirement

New Echota

Cherokee national capital

New Jersey Plan

Equal state representation

Nicholas Biddle

Second Bank president

Nullification

States reject laws

Oct. 10, 1788

Confederation Congress closes

Ohio Company

Northwest land speculation

Osceola

Seminole resistance leader

Panic of 1837

Major economic depression

Pennsylvania State Constitution

Unicameral legislature system

Pinckney's Treaty

Mississippi navigation rights

Rev. Manasseh Cutler

Ohio Company founder

Revolution of 1800

Peaceful power transfer

Robert Morris

Bank North America

Robert R. Livingston

Louisiana Purchase negotiator

Sacajawea

Expedition guide interpreter

Seminole Wars of 1835-1842

Florida guerrilla warfare

Shays' Rebellion

Massachusetts farmer uprising

Specie Circular of 1836

Gold silver payments

Stephen Decatur

Tripoli harbor attack

Tariff of 1828

Tariff of Abominations

Tecumseh

Native confederacy leader

Tennessee

Sixteenth U.S. state

Tertium Quid

Strict construction Republicans

The Federalist Essays

85 ratification essays

The Nationalists

Strong central government

Thomas Jefferson

Louisiana Purchase president

Tonnage Act of 1789

Shipping weight tax

Trail of Tears

Cherokee forced relocation

Treaty of Ghent

War of 1812 ends

Treaty of Greenville

Native land cession

Treaty of Hopewell

Cherokee peace treaties

Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions

State nullification arguments

Virginia Declaration of Rights

Individual freedoms protected

Virginia Plan

Population-based representation

Virginia State Constitution

Weak elected governor

Washington, D.C.

Permanent national capital

Webster-Hayne Debate

Union versus nullification

Whiskey Rebellion

Whiskey tax uprising

William H. Harrison

Tippecanoe military victory

William Wirt

Anti-Masonic candidate

Worcester v. Georgia

Georgia laws invalid

XYZ Affair

French bribery scandal