These 18th century movements challenged traditional structures of authority through reason and faith.
Enlightenment & Great Awakening
100
This failed constitution lacked executive power and sufficient power of taxation.
Articles of Confederation
100
This president is associated with revolutionizing American democracy through increased voter participation and the spoils system.
Andrew Jackson
100
These laws limiting the freedom and economic opportunities of African Americans were prohibited by the 14th Amendment.
Black Codes
100
This thinker emphasized simplicity, self-reliance and the divine value of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
200
This cash crop allowed the Chesapeake colonies to flourish economically and expand geographically.
Tobacco
200
This agreement resolved the dispute between equal representation in Congress (New Jersey plan) and proportional representation (Virginia plan).
Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise)
200
This policy regulated slavery in the territory acquired in the Louisiana purchase by prohibiting it north of the 36°30′ parallel.
Missouri Compromise
200
This law was included in the Compromise of 1850 and greatly empowered Southern slave owners to recapture slaves who had fled to the North.
Fugitive Slave Law (Act)
200
Man who founded the Mormon faith and was ultimately killed for challenging traditional Christian dogma.
Joseph Smith
300
The goal of this policy was to increase Massachusetts Bay's declining church membership.
Half-Way Covenant
300
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote these famous documents in an effort to persuade the American public to ratify the new Constitution.
The Federalist Papers
300
The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.
The "American system"
300
This is the name for the enduring conflict between pro- and anti-slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Acts. John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during it.
Bleeding Kansas
300
This "founding mother" was one of America's first feminist and reminded her husband to "remember the ladies" when considering the values to be written intro the Declaration of Independence.
Abigail Adams
400
This British economic policy of strictly regulating trade with its colonies was implemented through the Navigation Acts.
Mercantilism
400
Federalist President John Adams sought to silence the voice of the rival Democratic-Republican party through this legislation.
Alien & Sedition Acts
400
This semi-secret political party was built upon the idea of nativism and strongly opposed Irish immigration
Know-Nothing Party (American Party)
400
This reconstruction plan offered a stricter alternative to Lincoln's proposal and required at least 50% of southern voters to take oaths of loyalty.
Wade-Davis Bill
400
This French intellectual observed that America's open frontier allowed its people break free of traditionally rigid social structures.
Alexis de Tocqueville
500
This person was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging gender roles and religious orthodoxy.
Anne Hutchinson
500
This policy outlined the process for admitting new states into the union.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
500
These THREE transportation developments greatly increased migration and trade with the West.
Turnpikes (roads), Canals, & Railroads
500
This controversial deal resulted in the military's withdrawal from the south and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency.
Compromise of 1877 (Corrupt Bargain II)
500
This woman led a campaign to reform prisons and insane asylums.