This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This territory was purchased from Spain in 1819
Florida
In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned against what 2 things.
the formation of political parties and against becoming entangled in foreign affairs.
What effect did the cotton gin have on Slavery
Led to and increase in the need for slaves.
a failed 1846 proposal in Congress to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
Wilmot Proviso
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
What are Muckrakers?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The political movement that pushed for farmers' rights and regulation of big business.
Populist Movement
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What is the War of 1812?
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
What is The Great Migration?
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is The French and Indian War?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This set the precedent for the peaceful transfer of power between opposing political parties in the United States.
Election of 1800
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Investigative journalist who exposed Standard Oil and Rockefeller's business practices.
Ida Tarbell
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Massachusetts farmers led an uprising in 1786 against new taxes imposed by the fledgling U.S. government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
What impact did the War of 1812 have on American politics?
It ushered in the Era of Good Feelings
Jefferson signed a law outlawing trade with all foreign nations, a move that increased tension with Britain. Name the law.
What was the Embargo Act (1807)?
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this New York meeting in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Head of the Supreme Court that established judicial review and upheld federal authority over states
Who is John Marshall?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
Scalawags
A violent confrontation between police and labor protesters that took place on May 4, 1886, in Chicago. This event emerged from a labor movement advocating for an eight-hour workday, and it highlighted the tensions between labor unions and the government during the Gilded Age.
Haymarket Square Riot