Unit 1/2
First English Colony in new world
James Town 1607
War between Britain and France over Ohio River Valley
French & Indian War / Seven Years' War (1754-1763)
U.S. buys the Louisiana Territory from France.
Louisiana purchase 1803
Area of the First battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumpter
Act that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers willing to farm it for 5 years
Homestead Act (1862)
The transfer of diseases and resources from Natives and Colonizers (list 1 example)
The Columbian Exchange
U.S major victory in which the U.S win and legitimize themselves as possible victors of the war leading to France joining the war
Battle of Saratoga (1777)
Established judicial review — the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Introduced by Abraham Lincoln; Demanded Polk show exact area of supposed attack before war
Spot Resolution Spot Resolution (1847)
Established "separate but equal"; Legalized Jim Crow segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Laws placed to limit Colonial trade
The Navigation Acts
Influential pamphlet that says that brits have becoming tyrannical and the U.S must declare independence (Need names of author and pamphlet)
Thomas Paine - Common Sense (1776)
Major reform movement focused on women's rights.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Exposed brutality of slavery; Increased abolitionist sentiment
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Broke up tribal land into individual plots; Goal: assimilate Native Americans into white society
Dawes Act (1887)
Slave uprising in South Carolina in 1739, leading to stricter slave laws
Stono rebellion
The name of an event when French officials demand bribes from U.S. diplomats; U.S. refuses
XYZ Affair (1797-1798)
Supreme Court ruled that federal laws are supreme over state laws.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
strategy to arrest black men for fake crimes to force them into labour to get around 13th amendment
Convict Leasing
Idea pioneered by Andrew Carnegie saying that the Wealthy should give back to society
Gospel of Wealth
First representative assembly in the colonies established in 1619
Virginia House of Burgesses
What was the conflict between the Virginia and New Jersey plan
Virginia wants representation based on population and NJ wants it to be equal between states.
This protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.
Tariff of 1816
Treaty that forces Japan opens border to U.S
Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
This made government jobs merit-based, and not patronage after the assignation of President Garfield in 1881
Pendleton Act (1883)