Causes
An unofficial British policy in the early-to-mid 18th century that loosely enforced trade laws and relaxed supervision of the American colonies as long as they remained loyal and profitable.
What is Salutary Neglect?
A law that created the territories of these future Jayhawk and Cornhusker states and allowed settlers to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The major turning point of the American Revolutionary War because the American victory convinced France to enter the war as a vital ally to the United States
This event revealed that the Articles of Confederation created a central government that was too weak to maintain law and order, manage the economy, or protect the new nation. The armed uprising, led by a Revolutionary War veteran in Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787, exposed several critical vulnerabilities in the nation's first governing document.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
President Abraham Lincoln supposedly greeted author Harriet Beecher Stowe in late 1862 by saying, “So you're the little woman who wrote (the book) that started this great war”.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A royal decree by King George III that banned American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
These 1798–1799 political statements were drafted secretly by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson to protest the federal Alien and Sedition Acts.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
Capturing this western Mississippi city gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River and cut the western Confederate states off from the rest of the South. While this battle ended Lee's ability to mount major offensives into Northern territory. One ended on the 3rd and other the 4th of July in 1863.
What are Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
Establishes that any powers not explicitly given to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
A collection of 85 essays written to urge New York to ratify the new United States Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of this global conflict fought across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, India, and the Philippines, pitting Great Britain and Prussia against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Spain.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This landmark 1820 legislation provided the foundational legal basis for Dred Scott's freedom suit, and the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision of 1857 ultimately declared that same compromise unconstitutional.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Following a string of devastating losses, George Washington famously crossed the icy Delaware River on Christmas night to launch a surprise attack on Hessian forces. It re-energized the dying revolution and saved the Continental Army from dissolving.
Prohibited the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This 184-95 event was the first major test of federal authority and constitutional power for the newly established United States under the U.S. Constitution. Washington stated, Executive Authority: Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution states that the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
WHAT FAMOUS HISTORICAL FIGURE SAID IT?
“They came with a Bible and their religion. They stole our land and crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved.”
-Delivered on April 27, 1763 address near Detroit
What is Chief Pontiac?
A group of five laws passed in September 1850 that tried to stop fights between the North and South over slavery after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
WHAT FAMOUS DOCUMENT?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Officially overturned the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision by establishing the constitutional principle of birthright citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Passed from March 1867 to March 1868—were four federal statutes enacted by Congress over President Andrew Johnson's vetoes that placed ten former Confederate states under military occupation and outlined the precise rules for their readmission to the Union.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
The Stamp Act (1765) was a direct, internal tax on all paper goods used within the colonies (such as legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards). It was designed to collect internal revenue directly from everyday colonial transactions. These were indirect taxes on imported goods brought into the colonies, including glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Unlike the Stamp Act's internal focus, these tariffs targeted external trade.
What are the Townshend Acts (1767)?
WHAT POLITICAL PARTY PLATFORM?
This Convention of Delegates, assembled in pursuance of a call addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; to the policy of the present Administration; to the extension of Slavery into Free Territory; in favor of the admission of Kansas as a Free State; of restoring the action of the Federal Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson; and for the purpose of presenting candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President, do resolve as follows:
What is the Republican Party?
WHAT FAMOUS DOCUMENT?
Knowing to what violent resentments and incurable animosities, civil discords are apt to exasperate and inflame the contending parties, we think ourselves required by indispensible obligations to Almighty God, to your Majesty, to our fellow subjects, and to ourselves, immediately to use all the means in our power not incompatible with our safety, for stopping the further effusion of blood, and for averting the impending calamities that threaten the British empire.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
WHAT FAMOUS DOCUMENT?
Sec 8. And it be further enacted, That, in all cases where the duty which now is, or hereafter may be, imposed, on any goods, wares, or merchandises, imported into the United States, shall, by law, be regulated by, or be directed to be estimated or levied upon the value of the square yard, or of any other quantity or parcel thereof; and in all cases where there is or shall be imposed any ad valorem rate of duty on any goods, wares, or merchandises, imported into the United States, to be appraised, estimated, and ascertained, and the number of such yards, parcels, or quantities, and such actual value of every of them, as the case may require.
What is the Tariff of 1828?
Judicial review is a core mechanism of which constitutional principle?
What are checks and balances?