SUPREME COURT & CONGRESS
Established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
New religions:
1800 Religious revivals in Kentucky became popular. 1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church is established. 1830 Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1832 The Disciples of Christ are established.
What is the First Amendment?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Hapiness
What are unalienable rights?
Arrived in Massachusetts from England to avoid religious persecution.
Who were the Puritans?
Development of the transatlantic slave trade.
How did Southern plantation owners increase their profits?
Supported a national government with more power.
Who was the Federalist Party?
Branches of Government.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
Chief author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
As the Secretary of the Treasury, he preferred a strong Federal Government and set up the first federal banking system.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
California was admitted to the Union a a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Maintained an equal balance between free states and slave states in Congress.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
A system for governing the newly acquired Northwest Territory, which provided a pathway for territories to become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The "Turning Point" in the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Saratoga in 1777?
Served 2 presidential terms from April 1789 to March 1797.
Who was George Washington?
Sugar, Rum, Slaves
What is the Triangle Trade Route?
The 3 most important parts included: the Treaty of Paris, the Land Ordinance, and the Northwest Ordinance, occurring from 1781 to 1788.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and contributed to the American Revolution.
What was the Proclamation Line cof 1763?
Two weeks after the War for Independence was cover the bloodiest battle was led by General Andrew Jackson.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Led a reform movement to improve care for the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Increased the efficiency of mass-producing goods.
What is the technological innovation of interchangeable parts or the assembly line?
A Bill of Rights is needed to protect people from the abuses of government. Power should remain with the states as in the Articles of Confederation. Giving too much power to a central government will lead to tyranny.
What were the Anti-Federalists concerned about?
Name of the Ten Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Led the United States in the War of 1812.
What happened when American warships were captured at sea and forced to fight for the British?
Many Northerners changed how they felt and then supported the abolition movement after reading Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Couldn't pay their boat fare to the American Colonies.
Who were indentured servants?