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Judicary Act of 1801/ Midnidgt Appointments
Adams last attempt to maintain Federalists power in the new Republican Congress. This act created 16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices. He wanted federalists to dominate the judicial branch of government that he signed their appointments late on the last day of his administration. -
Louisiana Purchase
James Monroe was sent to Paris New Orleans and more land east at the maxium price of $10 million, however Napleon decided to sell Louisiana and all land west of it for $15 million and abandoned his dream of a New World Empire, which also failed in Haiti -
Fletcher v. Peck
Arouse out of a series of notorious land frauds in Georgia, the Court had to decide whether the Georgia legislature of 1796 could repeal the act of the previous legislature granting lands under shady circumstances to the Yazoo Lands Companies. In a unanimous decision, Marshall said that a land grant was a valid contract and could not be repealed even if corruption was involved. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
American victory. Led by William H. Harrison and made him a hero Americans defeated the Shawnee's and Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory. -
War of 1812
Awar between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier. Also, gave the U.S. an excuse to seize the British northwest posts and to annex Florida from Britain's ally Spain, and possibly even to seize Canada from Britain. War ended in 1814 with the Treaty Of Ghent (1814). War encouraged growth of industry -
Missouri Compromise
admitted Missouri as slave state and Maine as free state an imaginary line (36,30) drawn between slave and free states
