Period 2
A period when England did not enforce laws. A period of self-government for the colonists.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Popular term for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The amendments secure key rights for individuals and reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A war between the U.S. and Great Britain caused by American outrage over the impressment of American sailors by the British, the British seizure of American ships, and British aid to the Indians attacking the Americans on the western frontier. Enhanced nationalism of Americans.
What is the war of 1812?
Slavery becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty. Also, the Fugitive Slave Law is passed.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy.
What is laissez faire?
Economic philosophy or practice in which England established the colonies to provide raw materials to the Mother Country.
What is Mercantilism?
First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Antietam Lincoln announces on the first of 1863 all slaves in the rebelling states would be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The application of the idea "survival of the fittest" to human society.
What is Social Darwinism?
Seven Indian tribes that controlled Virginia. Led by Chief Powhatan and was an agricultural group.
What is Powhatan Confederacy?
Local committees established across Massachusetts, and later in each of the thirteen colonies, to maintain colonial opposition to British policies through the exchange of letters and pamphlets.
What is the Committees of Correspondance?
Act put into law by Thomas Jefferson in 1807. Outlawed the sailing of American ships to foreign ports.
What is the Embargo Act?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890?
The largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Provided Britain territorial gains. The British started taxing the colonists for the money they lost. The Proclamation line of 1763.
What is the French and Indian war?
1842 Landmark ruling of the Massachusetts supreme court establishing the legality of labor unions.
What is Commonwealth v. Hunt?
Supreme Court decision that stated three things: Blacks were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts; Because a slave is their master's property, they can be taken into any territory and held there in slavery; Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Political issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan.
What is Free silver?
The elected lower house in the legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.
What is Virginia House of Burgesses?
Statements secretly drafted by Jefferson and Madison for the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia. Argued that states were the final arbiters of whether the federal government overstepped its boundaries and could therefore nullify, or refuse to accept, national legislation they deemed unconstitutional.
What are the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions?
A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
An economic crash that arose due to the inflation caused by inpouring California gold.
What is the Panic of 1857?
Attempted to modernize the South's economy and to disversify southern agriculture. They encouraged northern investment and the building of new railroads to tie the south into national markets.
What is the New South?