1754-1800
The first taxing law that made colonists pay taxes on imported sugar
What is the Sugar Act (1764)?
The court case that established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
The man that won the Election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The belief that Darwin’s ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest, should be applied to the marketplace
What is Social Darwinism?
The use of exaggerated or falsified news stories aimed at increasing the circulation of newspapers
What is Yellow Journalism?
The event that showed the weakness of the Articles of the Confederation and how it needed to be replaced
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
The peaceful transition of power from the Federalists to Democratic-Republicans
What is the Revolution of 1800?
Territory gained by America after the Mexican-American War (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California)
What is the Mexican Cession?
Journalists that began to focus on issues such as the plight of the urban poor and the corruption of big business and brought them into the public eye
What are muckrakers?
This stated that not only should Europe stay out of the Western Hemisphere, but also that the US had the right to intervene if countries misbehaved as a way to prevent European intervention from becoming necessary
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
An act created by the Federalists which prevented immigrants from naturalization and restricted free speech.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?
Event that was triggered when the second bank of the US attempted to control inflation by limiting loans, causing increased unemployment, bankruptcy, state bank closures, imprisonment for debtors, etc.
What is the Panic of 1819?
The act that caused violence erupt to between pro- or anti-slavery forces in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Many southern states adopted this form of voter suppression, which allowed a man to vote only if his grandfather had cast ballots in elections before the Reconstruction
What are grandfather clauses?
Document that declared that the US had no intention of taking political control of Cuba and that, once peace was restored to the island, the Cuban people would control their own government
What is the Teller Amendment?
Documents written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, arguing that the states had the right to nullify any legislation they deemed necessary
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
Americans moved away from self-sufficient agriculture to production of goods for sale
What is the Market Revolution?
The Supreme Court case that ruled that African Americans descended from enslaved people, whether now free or slave, were not citizens of the US and thus could not sue in a Federal court
What is Dred Scott. V. Sanford?
Congress passed an act that suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years; It was the first major act of Congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882)?
When banks were rumored to be in danger of failing, people would rush to take their savings out and would thus confirm the rumors by wiping out the bank
What is a run on the bank?
What Enlightenment ideas influenced the Constitution? (3)
Natural Rights, Separation of Powers, Social Contract
The two political parties in the second party system
What are Whigs and Democrats?
An agency created by Congress that acted as an early welfare agency, providing food, shelter, and medical aid for those made destitute by the war – both blacks (chiefly freed slaves) and homeless whites
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A company would control every stage of the industrial process, from mining the raw materials to transporting the finished product
What is Vertical Integration?
The four freedoms that Roosevelt used to argue that the US must join WWII to defend
What is the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear?