Leaders Of The Early Nation
Led Union to victory in the Civil war, saved the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
Americans began to question certain elements of the Christian faith, embracing new rational views on religion.
Enlightenment Era
These ethnic groups were socially persecuted for drinking too much liquor.
The German and Irish
A series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west.
Ended French and Indian War. France lost Canada and land east of the Mississippi to the British
Treaty of Paris
Proposed the creation of a "National Bank"
Alexander Hamilton
The anti-slave movement.
Abolitionism
This group of immigrants died building the nation's Western coast railroads.
The Chinese.
An uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon in protest of the actions made by governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. Attack on Native tribes that ended in the death of every American attacker.
Bacon's Rebellion
A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States
Monroe Doctrine
President during the Era of Good Feelings
James Monroe
In New England, these revivals spawned a movement to educate and reform America.
Second Great Awakening
This group of immigrants contributed to much of the logging that occured in the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The Norwegian.
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia
Powhatan
Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the two warring nations, Britain and France. Backfired enormously.
Embrago Act
Which President destroyed/ got rid of the Second Bank of the United States?
Andrew Jackson
A movement that emerged in 1826 as a backlash against the rising popularity of drinking.
Temperance movement
This federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims.
Wampanoag
This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.
Manifest Destiny
Which president was mostly known for territorial expansion of the nation, mostly through the Mexican- American war?
President James Polk.
School reformers hoped to improve education so that children would become responsible citizens sharing similar values.
Public Education
Also known as the Foran Act, was an act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States.
Alien Contract Labor Law
1831. Marshall Supreme Court ruled that Cherokees could not sue because they were not a foreign nation.
Cherokee vs Georgia
This treaty was signed in the hopes of settling the growing conflicts between the U.S. and Britain. It dealt with the Northwest posts and trade on the Mississippi River. It was unpopular with most Americans because it did not punish Britain for the attacks on neutral American ships.
Jay’s Treaty