| Henry Clay's idea to raise a protective tariff
whose revenues would provide funds for roads
and canals that would link the nation. |
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| This 1801 law was a last-ditch attempt by
the Federalists to bequeath a conservative
judiciary to the Jeffersonians. |
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| This further decreased the friction between
the U. S. and Britain when this agreement
peaceably adjusted their boundaries along
the Great Lakes. |
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| As the author of the Monroe Doctrine, he
warned the European powers not to extend
their imperial system to the Western Hemisphere. |
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| This Anglo-American agreement restored territories
to their original status before the War of
1812. |
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| This "midnight judge" lost his
case for appointment in a celebrated Supreme
Court decision. |
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| The process of taking of sailors off of American
ships by the British and claiming that they
were Englishmen who had deserted the Royal
Navy. |
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| This Federalist judge was impeached, but
not convicted, because of seditious speech. |
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| The time of James Monroe's presidency when
the Democratic-Republican party was unchallenged
by a major political rival. |
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| A group of U. S. Congressmen from the western
states who urged that the U. S. declare war
against Britain in 1812. |
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| This northern Federalist expression of frustration
at no longer controlling the "Virginia
dynasty", was a meeting in which legitimate
worries about future embargoes, expansionism,
declarations of war, etc., were expressed. |
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| The negotiated sale of Spain's territories
in eastern and western Florida to the U.
S. for $5 million. |
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| It prohibited slavery north of the 36 30'
line. |
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| Henry Clay's alleged shifting of electoral
votes in the House to John Quincy Adams in
the 1824 election in exchange for his appointment
as Secretary of State. |
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