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- T/F: According to Karl Marx, the proletariat class is made up of the people who must sell their labor to survive.
- military leader who defeated Tecumseh's brother "the prophet" at the battle of tippecanoe
- nearly simultaneous firing of all guns from one side of a warship
- Lord Acton's quote "All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." What does it mean?
- Young army officer who joined Jefferson's personal secretary in exploring the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon country
- Shawnee leader who organized a major Indian confederation against U.S. expansion
- form of written command in the name of the court
- Militantly nationalistic western congressmen eager for hostilities with the Indians, Canadians, and British
- compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
- Swiss-born treasury secretary who disliked national debt but kept most Hamiltonian economic measures in effect
- Federalist Supreme Court justice whose brilliant legal efforts established the principle of judicial review
- Thomas Jefferson and his followers opposed john Adams last minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because
- an official ban on trade with a particular country
- Battle in 1811, where General William Henry Harrison defeated the Indian forces led by Tenskwatawa (the Prophet), brother of the charismatic Shawnee chief Tecumseh
- Precedent-setting Supreme Court case in which Marshall declared part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
- the principle, established by chief justice Marshall in a famous case, that the supreme court can declare laws unconstitutional
- American minister to Paris who joined James Monroe in making a magnificent real estate deal
- a place in which an ambassador's duties are carried out
- Term applied by historians to suggest the dramatic, unprecedented change that took place when the Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated the incumbent Federalist John Adams for the presidency
- an earlier action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in future similar circumstances.