What is the significance of the following? The Federalist Papers Bank War Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) Monroe Doctrine Panic of 1819 Lewis and Clark Expedition Marbury vs. Madison Shay’s Rebellion Lowell system Know-Nothing Party Nullification Crisis Northwest Ordinance Erie Canal American System

The Federalist Papers were a series of pseudonymous essays written in the late eighteenthcentury in the United States advocating for ratification of the United States Constitution. They were instrumental in securing the constitution's passage.The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) were short-lived statutes enacted by the United States Congress during the presidency of John Adams that made certain types of criticism of government officials illegal and allowed deportation of those deemed dangerous aliens.The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy doctrine set out by James Monroe that established the overthrow of an independent state in the western hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act by the United States. It has remained an enduring component of US foreign policy to the present day.The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an 1804 to 1806 transcontinental exploration led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to chart the western part of North America. The expedition helped direct later stages in the settlement of the West.Marbury vs. Madison was a United States Supreme Court decision that established the right of the courts to engage in judicial review.The Nullification Crisis was a constitutional crisis that onset in the late 1820s when South Carolina declared it would not obey, or "nullify," certain federal acts. It has been seen by some as a foreshadowing of the American Civil War.The Know-Nothing Party was a short-lived political party in the United States. Founded in 1844 and dissolved in 1860, its populist platform was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic.

The Bank War was a political controversy over the Second Bank of the United States pitting Andrew Jackson against bank supporters and ultimately leading to the institution's closure.

The Panic of 1819 was an economic crisis in the United States often regarded as the country's first fiscal emergency.

Shay's Rebellion was an unsuccessful armed revolt in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787 led by Daniel Shay. It was a reaction to perceived government corruption and draconian tax policies.

The Northwest Ordinance was a federal statute enacted after the American Revolution that established the Northwest Territory, roughly contiguous with the modern Midwest, and set out that slavery would be prohibited in it, thereby solidifying the geographic division of slave and free areas between the northern and southern United States.The Erie Canal is a canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes. Construction on the waterway was completed in 1825.The American System was the economic platform of the Whig Party. It called for protectionism in the form of tariffs, as well as establishment of a central bank.The Lowell System was a system for the mechanization of textile manufacturing innovated in the United States in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth, centuries. It was an early episode in the eventual industrial revolution.