Hamiltonian Economic Measure Repealed By Jefferson And Gallatin
Question: Excise Tax
Answer: Hamiltonian economic measure repealed by Jefferson and Gallatin
Question: Pardoned
Answer: Action Jefferson took toward Republican “martyrs” convicted under the Federalist Sedition Law
Question: Midnight Judges
Answer: Derogatory Republican term for Federalist judges appointed at the last minute by President Adams
Question: Marbury vs. Madison
Answer: Precedent-setting Supreme Court case in which Marshall dismissed a Federalist judge’s suit but also declared part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
Question: Judicial Review
Answer: The principle, established by Chief Justice Marshall in a famous case, that the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional
Question: Impeachment
Answer: Action voted by the House of Representatives against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase and feared by Chief Justice Marshall
Question: Navy
Answer: Branch of military service that Jefferson considered least threatening to liberty and most necessary to suppressing the Barbary states
Question: Santo Domingo
Answer: Sugar-rich island where Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave rebellion disrupted Napoleon’s
Question: Oregon Country
Answer: Territory beyond Louisiana, along the Columbia River, explored by Lewis and Clark
Question: $15,000,000
Answer: Price paid by the United States for the Louisiana Purchase