The American Promise Value Edition Combined Volume 6th By James L. Roark – Test Bank

The American Promise Value Edition Combined Volume 6th By James L. Roark – Test Bank

Use the following to answer questions 1-12:

Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.

Terms

1. battle of New Orleans
2. battle of Tippecanoe
3. Creek War
4. Embargo Act of 1807
5. feme covert
6. Harford Convention
7. impressment
8. Lewis and Clark expedition
9. Louisiana Purchase
10. Marbury v. Madison
11. Missouri Compromise
12. War Hawks

1.

1803 purchase of French territory west of the Mississippi River that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. The purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and opened the way for future American expansion west.

2.

Young men newly elected to the Congress of 1811 who were eager for war against Britain in order to end impressments, fight Indians, and expand into neighboring British territory. Leaders included Henry Clay of Kentucky and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.

3.

Legal doctrine grounded in British common law that held that a wife’s civic life was subsumed by her husband’s. Married women lacked independence to own property, make contracts, or keep wages earned. The doctrine shaped women’s status in the early republic.

4.

Part of the War of 1812 involving Indians in Mississippi Territory and Tennessee militiamen. General Andrew Jackson’s forces claimed victory at the battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, forcing the tribe to sign away much of their land.

5.

1803 Supreme Court case that established the concept of judicial review in finding that parts of the Judiciary Act of 1789 were in conflict with the Constitution. The Supreme Court assumed legal authority to overrule acts of other branches of the government.

6.

1804–1806 exploration of the trans-Mississippi West for the U.S. government. Its mission was scientific, political, and geographical.

7.

Act of Congress that prohibited U.S. ships from traveling to foreign ports and effectively banned overseas trade in an attempt to deter Britain from halting U.S. ships at sea. The decision caused grave hardships for Americans engaged in overseas commerce.

8.

An attack on Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown 1811 by American forces headed by William Henry Harrison, Indiana’s territorial governor. The Prophet Tenskwatawa fled with his followers. Tecumseh, his brother, deepened his resolve to make war on the United States.

9.

A British naval practice of seizing sailors on American ships under the claim they were deserters from the British navy. Some 2,500 British and American men were taken by force into service, a grievance that helped propel the United States to declare war on Britain.

10.

The final battle in the War of 1812, fought and won by General Andrew Jackson and his militiamen against the much larger British army in Louisiana. The celebrated battle made no difference since the peace had already been negotiated.

11.

Engineered by Henry Clay, this 1820 congressional agreement paired Missouri’s entrance into the Union as a slave state with Maine as a free state and established Missouri’s southern border as the permanent line dividing slave from free states.

12.

A secret meeting of New England Federalist politicians held in late 1814 to discuss constitutional changes to reduce the South’s political power and thus help block policies that injured northern commercial interests.

Answer Key

1.

I

2.

L

3.

E

4.

C

5.

J

6.

H

7.

D

8.

B

9.

G

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A

11.

K

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F