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As a result of this war, Britain began to tax the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
Anti-Federalists wouldn't support the ratification of the Constitution unless this was added
What is the Bill of Rights?
Declared that all slaves in rebellious states would be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Guarantees citizenship, equal protection, and due process to all people born or naturalized in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
Abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Uprising of farmers, indentured servants, common people, and enslaved people against the wealthy and powerful elites of the Virginia Colony in the late 17th century
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time
What is the Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820?
The most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people
What are Black Codes?
A series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts; the rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers-turned farmers who opposed state economic policies causing poverty and property foreclosures
What is Shays Rebellion?
Written by Thomas Paine, it challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy
What is Common Sense?
Holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The ruling in this case denied Black citizenship and upheld slavery in US territories
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union
Who is Johnson?
A wave of religious revivals that swept the colonies in the 1740’s
What is the Great Awakening?
The post-American Revolution ideology that emphasized women's crucial role in shaping the new nation by raising their children with strong republican values
What is Republican Motherhood?
Drastically reduced transportation costs and facilitated trade between the East Coast and the Midwest, significantly impacting the Market Revolution
What is the Erie Canal?
This allowed white residents of the territories to vote on whether to permit slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This resulted in the successful expulsion of Europeans from the upper Rio Grande region of North America
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This resolved the boundary dispute between Virginia and Pennsylvania, ensuring clear borders between the two states. Additionally, it prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, which helped to maintain a balance of power between the eastern and western states
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 which sparked widespread protests and solidified the "no taxation without representation" sentiment among colonists
What is the Stamp Act?
A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year; the system severely restricted the economic mobility of the laborers
What is sharecropping?