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Early National Period Vocabulary

egalitarian

Articles of Confederation

landless states

Critical period 1783-1789

Ordinance of 1784

Ordinance of 1785 or Land Ordinance of 1785

Northwest Ordinance of 1787 or Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Shays' Rebellion

The Constitution Large state- small state rivalry

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

The Federalist/John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

preamble

Bill of Rights

Ninth Amendment

Tenth Amendment

Judiciary Act of 1789

election of 1789

Executive

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

Henry Knox

John Jay

Funding at Par

Strict Constitution

Assumption

Implied Powers

Agrarian

Excise Tax

The Cabinet

Bill of Rights

Whiskey Rebellion

Amendment Nine

Tenth Amendment

Jeffersonian Republicans

Judiciary Act of 1789

Citizen Genet

Anthony Wayne

John Adams

Compact Theory

French Revolution

Jay Treaty 1794

Neutrality Proclamation

Battle of Fallen Timbers Farewell Address

Treaty of Greenville

Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

National Debt

Federal District

Hamilton's Program (economic)

specie

National Bank

strict vs. loose interpretation of the Constitution

Thomas Pinckney/Pinckney's Treaty

Faction

Republican Party

Fenno's Gazette of the United States

Freneau's National Gazette

Whiskey Rebellion

Washington's Farewell Address

Electoral College

1796 election

Talleyrand

XYZ Affair

Alien and Sedition Laws

Nullification

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Eleventh Amendment

John Jay

Noah Webster

Election’Revolution of 1800

Jefferson's inaugural Address

Land Act of 1800

High Federalists

Robert R. Livingston

John Taylor

Aaron Burr - Burr-Hamilton Duel

Barbary Pirates

Treaty of Vincennes (1804)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

12th amendment

Burr Expedition /conspiracy

Albert Gallatin

Jefferson and state sovereignty

popular virtue

Jefferson's own people

Jefferson & the Barbary pirates /Tripolitan War

Toussaint L’Overture

Jefferson on New Orleans

Louisiana Purchase

Jefferson's loose construction

Jefferson and the Tertium Quids - Quidism

Treaty of Sam Ildefonso

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Essex Junto

Lewis and Clark

Zebulon Pike

Federalists opposition to Louisiana

Samuel Chase

John Pickering

Election of 1808

John Madison

Essex Case

Impressments

Chesapeake-Leopard

Internal Taxes

National Good

Napoleon

Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)

Embargo Act 1807

“northern confederacy”

British Rule of 1756

broken voyages

Embargo Act

two term tradition

impressment

War Hawks

Henry Clay

Mr. Madison's War

William Henry Harrison

West Florida

Andrew Jackson

Indian Confederation

Captain Oliver Hazard Perry

Battle of the Thames

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Battle of New Orleans

Constitution - Old Ironsides

Hartford Convention

Treaty of Ghent

Napoleon and the Continental System

British Orders of Council

Berlin Decree of 1806/Milan Decree

Erskine Treaty/Macon's Bill #2

causes of the War of 1812

Non-intercourse Act of 1809

Pan-Indian Resistance

Tecumseh/Harrison/Battle of Tippecanoe, Nov 7, 1811

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)/Prophet’s Town

“expansionist-minded southerners”

War Hawks

"Put-in Bay"

Burning of Washington

Dolly Madison

Fort Griswold

Battle of New Orleans/General Jackson

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

“despots”

Hartford Convention

Essex Junto

Henry Clay \American Manufacturing System

Tariff of 1816

Second Bank of the United States

The National Road

status quo antebellum

The Erie Canal/canal building

Panic of 1819/specie

John Marshall

“midnight judges”

Judiciary Act of 1801

Judicial review Marbury v. Madison - 1803

“selling of public land” /Fletcher v. Peck/ Yazoo Land Claims

Dartmouth v Woodward

Gibbons v. Ogden steamboats

McCulloch v. Maryland

John Quincy Adams

Anglo-American Accords

Trans-Continental Treaty

George Canning

Monroe Doctrine

James Monroe

“Era of Good Feelings”

“nationalism”

James Tallmadge

Tallmadge Amendment

Missouri Compromise

political consciousness of the day

John Quincy's foreign policy

Samuel Slater/Eli Whitney

interchangeable parts

Factory system

John Jacob Astor's Fur Company

Lowell System/Lowell Girls

towns and cities (Antebellum Period)

New England industry boom

artisans and mechanics

westward expansion

differences between easterners&westerners

population movements

demography of western settlements

pioneer social activities

pioneer family

military bounties

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Adams-Onis Treaty

Manifest Destiny

Neo-Federalism

John Calhoun

“Era of Good Feelings”

Neutrality Act of 1818