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| important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. A successful lawyer and politician |
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| a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. |
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| four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution's reign of terror and during an undeclared naval war with France |
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| pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers |
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| the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory |
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| the final major battle of the War of 1812. American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase. |
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| a United States force of militia and regulars set out to launch a preemptive strike on the headquarters of the confederacy |
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| a suspected treasonous cabal of planters, politicians, and army officers led by former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr. |
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| the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate Chesapeake. |
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| a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. |
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| an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. |
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| he election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. |
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| American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade between the years of 1807 and 1812. |
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| 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. |
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| the act of compelling men into a navy by force and without notice. |
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| was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war |
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| an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95). |
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| a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. |
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| the first United States expedition to the Pacific Coast. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the expedition had several goals |
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| the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. |
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| was the Chief Justice of the United States (1801–35) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. |
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| The Supreme Court justices had often voiced concern and suggested that the judges of the Supreme and circuit courts be divided. |
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| signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain |
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| a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. |
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| the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
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| 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 |
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| Washington's Farewell Address |
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| written to "The People of the United States" near the end of his second term as President of the United States and before his retirement to his home at Mount Vernon |
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| a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington |
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| a 1798 diplomatic episode during the administration of John Adams that Americans interpreted as an insult from France |
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