Road to Revolution
This phrase summarized the American colonists' disagreement with the British Parliament and King George
What is "no taxation without representation"?
The Articles of Confederation did not include an executive and withheld these two powers from Congress making it unsustainable in the long run.
What are taxation and regulation of trade?
In 1816, the United States passed the first of these, which they hoped would keep the British from dumping cheap goods in the U.S. after their recent war.
What are tariffs?
Despite their support for the American Revolution, when this country's revolution began in 1793, President Washington declared the U.S. neutral
What is the French Revolution?
The vision of American women teaching patriotism and the ideals of the revolution at home.
What is "Republican Motherhood"?
This future president was partially responsible for the rise of political parties only a few years after Washington warned against them
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These groups wanted to limit or outlaw alcohol due to its impact on crime, poverty, abuse of women and other social ills
What are temperance societies?
This rebellion by Native Americans following the peace treaty ending the French and Indian War led to the Proclamation of 1763, the first step on the road to revolution
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This compromise, named for the mathematical way that enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation would later cause issues.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
The new system of tariffs, internal improvements, and a new national bank proposed by Henry Clay.
What is the American System?
This land purchase doubled the size of the United States, but might have been unconstitutional.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In his farewell address, President Washington spoke against, involvement in European affairs, permanent alliances, forming political parties and what -ism that would later be important?
What is sectionalism?
This future populist president lost in 1824 and declared the election "a corrupt bargain"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This movement originally arose out of the Second Great Awakening, but soon included newspapers like "The Liberator" and "The North Star"
What is the abolition movement?
A key device for spreading the idea between colonies that British officials were undermining colonial liberties in the early years of the road to revolution
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This Secretary of the Treasury didn't "take a break" but proposed a plan including a national bank, paying off war debt and high tariffs to start the new nation off right
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The invention of this machine changed the economic destiny of the South and would cause slavery to become a national issue.
What is the cotton gin?
This war was officially over British kidnapping of American sailors, but also because "war hawks" wanted to make Canada the 19th state.
What is the War of 1812?
This compromise was the first time that the U.S. government had to deal with the question of the expansion of slavery, but it wouldn't be the last
What is the Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820?
In this Supreme Court case, the Cherokee tribe won against Georgia but President Jackson refused to enforce the court's ruling
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This NC former Massachusetts school teacher crusaded across the country, including a stop in NC, to improve mental health treatment and facilities.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Benjamin Franklin attempted to organized the colonies for mutual defense during the French and Indian War using this plan
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
President George Washington is the only sitting president to lead troops in battle during this rebellion
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
These two market revolution inventions often traveled the same path as the U.S. expanded westward
What are the telegraph and the railroad?
President Jefferson sent the U.S. Navy and Marines to the Mediterranean to deal with this group, leading to the line in the Marine Corps song "From the halls of Moctezuma to the shores of Tripoli"
Who are the Barbary Pirates?
The rise of the "common man" in American culture, along with reforms in voting eligibility led to the election of this president in 1824
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Supreme court case was the result of President Jefferson refusing to recognize appointments made by his predecessor President Adams
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This rebellion in Virginia against slavery was led by a man who was considered a religious zealot by some, but a freedom fighter by others
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
These two Enlightenment thinkers provided the philosophical foundations of the American Revolution and its new government.
Who are John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This Virginia Anti-Federalist did not support ratification of the Constitution and wrote Anti-Federalist papers predicting many of the issues we have seen in recent history
Who is George Mason?
Extensive use of women (Lowell Mills) and children in manufacturing as well as long hours and low pay for all factory workers led to the rise of these organizations for the first time in the U.S.
What are unions? (also accept labor unions)
This doctrine includes the declaration that European powers should not consider the free states of the Western Hemisphere "subjects for future colonization" anymore.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This group of New England thinkers includes Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who are the Transcendentalists?
This crisis over tariffs was the precursor of the crisis that led to the secession of South Carolina that started the Civil War
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, was the result of the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?