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Definition: Was an event spanning from December 15, 1814-January 4, 1815 in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed.

Sentence: In 1814, he was among the delegates from Massachusetts to the Hartford Convention

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Definition: Treaty ending the War of 1812, signed in Belgium in 1814; it restored peace but was silent on the issues over which the United States and Britain had gone to war

Sentence: Ratification of the Treaty of Ghent ended the war in February 1815

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Definition: Battle during the War of 1812 where the British army attempted to take New Orleans. Due to a foolish frontal attack, Andrew Jackson defeated them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost

Sentence: He fought in the decisive Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815

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Definition: Procedure permitted under British maritime law that authorized commanders of warships to force English civilian sailors into military service

Sentence: Outbound merchant ships, officers and apprentices were exempt from impressment

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Definition: Members of Congress elected in 1810 from the West and South who campaigned for war with Britain in the hopes of stimulating the economy and annexing new territory

Sentence: The war hawks' guesses about the response of the Iraqi people were wrong

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Definition: He was the brother of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee. He denounced Americans as children of the devil and mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight them, but his movement was defeated in the War of 1812 when his brother was killed, and he faded away.

Sentence: We have confounded the prophets of doom and achieved a bloodless revolution.

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Definition: The Americans defeated the Indians, leading to the Treaty of Greenville a year later. It ceded new territory to the United States in exchange for formal acknowledgement of Indian possession over certain lands.

Sentence: The confederacy were finally defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.

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Definition: Shawnee leader and brother of The Prophet

Sentence: In 1930, Tecumseh lost the county seat status to Shawnee.

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Definition: Law passed by Congress in 1809 reopening trade with all nations except France and Britain and authorizing the president to reopen trade with them if they lifted restrictions on American shipping

Sentence: In 1790, Congress had passed the Nonintercourse Act, prohibiting and invalidating all Indian land transactions not made under the authority of the federal government

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Definition: Embargo announced by Jefferson in 1807 in order to pressure Britain and France to accept neutral trading rights; it went into effect in 1808 and closed down all U.S. foreign trade

Sentence: This business thrived until the Embargo Act of 1807 destroyed trade

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Definition: A journey made by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, to explore the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond.

Sentence: He imagined what Lewis and Clark felt as they explored the West

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Definition: The U.S. purchase of Louisiana from France for $15 million in 1803; the Louisiana Territory extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

Sentence: The United States acquired the territory through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803

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Definition: Supreme Court decision declaring part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional, thereby establishing an important precedent in favor of judicial review

Sentence: In "Marbury vs Madison" ( 1803 ), the Supreme Court under John Marshall established the precedent of being able to review and overturn legislation passed by Congress

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Definition: The wife of second president John Adams. She attempted to get rights for the "Ladies" from her husband who at the time was on the committee for designing the Declaration of Independence

Sentence: Abigail Adams was called ` Mrs . President' for her fervent anti-Federalist views

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Definition: The right to vote, especially in a political election

Sentence: The right of suffrage requirements is confined by the constitution to adult male citizens who have resided in the state for one year.

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Definition: Undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800

Sentence: At the time, France and the United States had been engaged for two years in the Quasi War

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Definition: A diplomatic incident in which American envoys to. France were told that the United States would have to loan France money and bribe government officials as a precondition for negotiation

Sentence: The XYZ Affair ignited a wave of nationalist sentiment.

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Definition: The Americans defeated the Indians, leading to the Treaty of Greenville a year later. It ceded new territory to the United States in exchange for formal acknowledgement of Indian possession over certain lands

Sentence: The Northwest Indian War ended with the Battle of Fallen Timbers and Treaty of Greenville.

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Definition: Established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain

Sentence: The Spanish government asked that the ship, cargo and slaves be restored to Spain under the Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 between Spain and the United States.

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Definition: US and England and. It was a treaty between the US and Great Britain and its where the British agreed to get rid of their posts (forts) in the Northwest

Sentence: Washington sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate the Jay Treaty

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Definition: A formal announcement issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the United States a neutral nation in the conflict between Great Britain and France.

Sentence: The public had mixed opinions about Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality.

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Definition: Political party in the United States of mostly Wealthy North-easterners that favored a strong centralized federal government, commerce-based economy, loose construction of constitution, national bank, GB sympathy

Sentence: A political party in the United States that was opposed to the Federalist Party and was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1792 and dissolved in 1828.

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Definition: Was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.It was formed first in Congress and then in every state to contest elections and oppose the programs of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton

Sentence: On account of these conflicts a majority of Georgians adopted the principles of the Democratic-Republican Party, and early in the 19th century the people were virtually unanimous in their political ideas

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Definition: To reject a federal law at the state level. It was used to safe-guard slavery in the southern states, including South Carolina.

Sentence: President Jackson responded with a proclamation denying the right of nullification, and asked Congress for authority to collect the revenue in South Carolina by force if necessary

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Definition: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional

Sentence: He bitterly opposed the ratification by the state of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and their defeat is largely due to him

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Definition: 1798 Acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government

Sentence: Adams reluctantly signed the Alien and Sedition Acts as a wartime measure.

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Definition: A protest and rebellion against an excise tax on whiskey that turned violent.

Sentence: He had fought in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania and then entered the army

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Definition: A plan to get out of the debt that was caused by the Revolution

Sentence: The third major area of Hamilton's economic plan aimed to make American manufacturers self-sufficient

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Definition: An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States

Sentence: The Judiciary Act of 1789 called for the appointment of six justices

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Definition: The first ten amendments, or additions, to the Constitution which give people important rights such as freedom of speech

Sentence: The 9th amendment was added to the bill of rights for the express purpose of insuring that this would not happen