American Colonies
The "System" established to encouraged rich aristocrats to pay the passage of indentured servants to the colonies. These rich men would in turn get 50 acres of land to till after bringing folks over.
Headright System
The Acts passed by the British government that closed Boston Harbor after the TEA PARTY
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
The name of the candidate Jackson lost to in the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824
John Q. Adams
The first major "Compromise" splitting the nation into Free Territory and Slave Territory - setting the stage for the spread of slavery in the west.
Missouri Compromise (1820)
This Amendment to the Constitution states that anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen
14th Amendment
Early movement that challenged the authority of preachers and the Anglican Church in the colonies - led to new Protestant movements.
First Great Awakening
The law preventing colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in the years after the Seven Years War
Proclamation of 1763
This gentlemen from South Carolina challenged Jackson's Presidential authority during the "Nullification Crisis" over the Protective Tariff
John C. Calhoun
The belief that Americans had a divine right to expand West
Manifest Destiny
Most famous government agency charged with aiding ex-slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Pilgrims signed this document as a binding agreement of how they would behave in Virginia in 1620 when they landed.
Mayflower Compact
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The Party of Henry Clay
Whigs
This war was fought from 1845 to 1848 to establish the US from east coast all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Mexican - American War
Thaddeus Stevens
1676 Virginia uprising was the earliest major popular rebellion against British colonial rule in America, surrounding the divisions between Virginia’s upper and lower classes. The lower class burned down the town where Berkeley was ruling.
Bacon's Rebellion
European Social/Political Movement that was highly influential on the ideology of the American Revolution because of its focus on the rights of men universally, not just landowners
The Enlightenment
Famous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Jackson who made the ruling on the "Judicial Review" case, as well as many pertaining to Natives and States rights
John Marshal
This Compromise allows popular sovereignty in the New Mexico Territory and strengthens the Fugitive Slave Act among several other things
The name given to people inside the South who supported Reconstruction efforts and help attempt to enfranchise ex-slaves
Scalawags
This religious group were also know as "Separatists" in the colonies. They left England for Holland, and then to the New World for religious freedom
Pilgrims
This man was the right-hand man of General Washington, who would go on to write the essays that would establish the financial system and the Bank of the US after the Revolutionary War.
Alexander Hamilton
Treaty that awards the United States California and other Southwestern territories
These vagrancy laws were written into state legislatures in the south to keep track of freedmen who would trying to find work - many times they were jailed and put to work on the plantation as punishment.
Black Codes