Unit 4 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 8
Chapter 8-Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of
Government, 1800-1815
*Be able to answer the following questions and/or fully explain the
significance of the terms and concepts.
*All page references are for the online version of the textbook
How did the Republic’s growth shape the market economy
and relations with Native Americans?
1. Thomas Jefferson’s Administration
2. Population growth
3. Westward the Course of Empire (pg. 181)
4. Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh
5. Commercial Life in the Cities
(pg. 181 – 183)
6. Samuel Slater
7. Robert Fulton
8. Mechanization and its threats to skilled artisans
How did practical politics challenge Jefferson’s political
principles?
9. Jefferson’s Goals/Reforms (pg 183-184)
10. Louisiana Purchase (Questions of constitutionality?)
11. Lewis and Clark Expedition
12. North Africa and the Barbary States
13. Barbary War
How did Jeffersonians deal with the difficult problems of
party politics and slavery?
14. Judiciary Act of 1801
15. Adams’s “midnight” appointments
16. John Marshall (You must know the Great Chief Justice!)
He’s AMAZING!
17. William Marbury
18. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
19. judicial review
20. Republican attempts to impeach Justice Samuel Chase.
21. The Yazoo Controversy (pg. 189)
22. Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
23. Aaron Burr (This guy is NUTS!)
24. The Slave Trade (pg. 192-192)
25. Jefferson’s contradictions regarding the issue of slavery?
Why did the United States find it difficult to avoid military
conflict during this period?
26. Impressment
27. British Orders in Council
28. Napoleon’s Continental System
29. Chesapeake/Leopard incident
30. Embargo Act of 1807 (“O grab me!”)
31. “peaceable coercion”
32. James Madison’s Administration
33. Non-Intercourse Act (pg. 194)
34. Macon’s Bill Number Two (pg. 195)
35. Battle of Tippecanoe, Tecumseh, and General William
Henry Harrison
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36. War Hawks
 Henry Clay
 John C. Calhoun
Why is the War of 1812 sometimes thought of as a “second
war of independence”?
37. War of 1812
38. Canada and the Great Lakes
39. Battle of Thames River and the death of Tecumseh
40. The burning of Washington, D.C.
41. Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, and the “Star-Spangled
Banner”
42. Battle of New Orleans and General Andrew Jackson
43. Hartford Convention and the demise of the Federalists
44. Treaty of Ghent
What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812?
45. Causes of the War of 1812
 Impressment
 Rumors of British agitation of Native Americans
in the West
 British and French interference of U.S. trade
 Congressional War Hawks
46. Effects of the War of 1812
 Rise of U.S. nationalism / patriotism
 New U.S. War Heroes (Andrew Jackson and
William Henry Harrison)
 Birth of U.S. Industry/Manufacturing (road to
self-sufficiency)
 Demise of the Federalist Party
 Native Americans weakened in the West.