members of Congress who favored war against Great Britain during the War of 1812
Who are the War Hawks
He led a violent slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 that left 55 whites dead.
Nat Turner
This law that required colonists to house British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act
in 1786 an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased taxes
Shays Rebellion
He was President the last time a mob stormed the capitol! This time it was the British Army
James Madison
The name of the political party that demanded an armistice in the middle of the Civil War. Old Abe locked these snakes up without giving them a trial
The Copperheads
an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
This English Enlightenment thinker had a huge intellectual influence on the Founding Fathers
John Locke
A series of meetings from December 15, 1814 to January 5, 1815, in Connecticut in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812
The Hartford Convention
"[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause
Fourth Amendment
Famous landmark Supreme Court case (1803) that established the idea of judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
After this battle in Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee never went on the offensive again.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
Passed on July 13, 1787, it outlined the process for admitting a new state to the Union, and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original thirteen states. This legislation provided for civil liberties and public education within the new territories, but did not allow slavery.
Northwest Ordinance
When the British seized American sailors and forced them into the British navy
Impressment