VOCAB MATCHING

Name of congressional group that forcefully advocated war with Great Britain in 1812
War Hawks

Term used to describe paper money, especially Continental dollars, which lost value and in some cases became quite worthless during and immediately after the Revolutionary War
depreciated securities

popular sovereignty
Term used to describe a governmental system in which the people are the supreme source of all power

Middle Passage
Description of the trans-Atlantic slave trade before it was officially ended in 1808


Term used to describe the Embargo Act (1807) and the Non-Intercourse Act (1809) which involved U.S. shipping with foreign countries
peaceable coercion

The Bill of Rights provision which guaranteed the freedom of speech, press, and religion
First Amendment

The political party that formed around Washington and Hamilton in the 1790s
Federalist

According to the first Congress under the new Constitution, this was to be the new government of the United State's chief source of income
tariff on imports

Invention which made commercial agriculture in the Northwest feasible
steamboat

Term to describe former artisans who were losing their independent status during the period from 1790 to 1815
wage laborers

bicameral
A two-house legislature adopted by many states and eventually the federal government of the United States

impressment
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair 1807

impeachment
The method by which government officials, especially judges who are appointed for life, can be removed from their jobs

American System
An early 19th Century idea where the United States would become self-sufficient through internal trade and production and an integrated market economy