1777-1789
Revealed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
Political group that had Alexander Hamilton at its head.
What are the Federalists?
Solution to sectional tensions over slavery during the "Era of Good Feelings"
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Ideal that God has intended North America for the United States.
What was Manifest Destiny?
He attempted to start a slave rebellion that further divided the North and South.
Who was John Brown?
Was a compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists in order to ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Political group that had Thomas Jefferson at its head.
What are the Jeffersonian Democratic Republican?
War that brought a stronger sense of nationalism and death of the Federalist party.
What was the War of 1812?
War that later resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What was the Mexican-American War or Mexican War?
Law authored by Andrew Johnson to allow popular sovereignty to determine if a state will have slavery. The law also overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This gave more power to Southern states for representation and in the electoral college.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
Jefferson accused the Federalists of getting too friendly with this country.
What is England or Great Britain?
Political philosophy written by secretary of state John Quincy Adams to help facilitate trade with newly independent Latin American nations.
What is the Declaration of Sentiment?
Court case that resulted in stronger slave property rights in all of the United States.
What was Dred Scott v Sanford?
This banned slavery north of the Ohio River in the new states under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Led to anger towards the French which contributed to a quasi war during the John Adams presidency.
What is the XYZ affair?
Strong social/cultural effect of the Market Revolution.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Movement to help families, domestic violence, and poverty of growing cities.
What was the Temperance movement?
Angered the North that the South could enforce their will upon the North.
What was the Fugitive Slave law?
Was the original ideas behind the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
Jefferson felt this group is what would best make up the citizens of the United States and contributed to his idea of Westward Expansion.
What were Yeoman farmers?
Economic plan by Henry Clay that Andrew Jackson later ran against and dismantled.
What was the American System?
New political party that was nativist.
What were the Know-Nothings?
Revealed that the population had increased in the North so much that the 3/5 compromise no longer gave the South an advantage.
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?