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Declared enslaved people were not citizens, and "property" would be protected by the government.
What is the Dred Scott Decision? or (Dred Scott v. Sanford)
Sold federal lands for $10 for 160 acres and full ownership after five years to encourage settlement out west.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
In this speech John Winthrop said the Massachusetts Bay colony would shine like an example to the world.
What is a "City Upon a Hill"?
Armed protest by farmers in western Pennsylvania against Alexander Hamilton's excise tax. President George Washington led a militia to stop the rebellion.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The name of Henry Clay's three-pronged system to promote American industry.
What is the American System?
Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks.
What are Black Codes?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Individual natives were given grants of tribal lands in exchange for US citizenship.
What is the Dawes (Severalty) Act?
Enlightenment thinker who said all men have the right to life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
British soldiers fired upon a group of colonists, resulting in the death of five people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Campaign slogan adopted by Polk as he ran on the promise that he would seize all of the Oregon Territory from Britain.
What is "Fifty-four forty or fight"?
This landmark case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This act relocated natives living east of the Mississippi. This forced removed would be called the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
Led by a farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, this rebellion exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Opponents of the 1787 Constitution, they advocated for a Bill of Rights to be included.
Who are the Antifederalists?
The US paid Mexico $10 million for this piece of land in order to construct a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This judge declared that enslaved people were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
Who is Roger Taney?
Series of British laws aimed at controlling colonial trade. These acts were largely ignored by the colonists.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A Virginia slave revolt that sparked widespread fear and panic among white slaveholders leading to increased restrictions.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This society, founded by William Lloyd Garrison advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This system allowed an individual to acquire fifty acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colonies.
This case declared that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Jefferson prohibited trade with Britain and France in response to impressments.
What is the Embargo Act (1807)?
"I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, AND I WILL BE HEARD."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What is the Stono Rebellion (1739)?
Although rejected, this plan was to establish a unified colonial defense against the French.
Name used by Southern whites to describe Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the south after the Civil War.