British Acts
Tax on sugar and other goods
Sugar Act
Ended Revolutionary War; Britain recognized American independence
Treaty of Paris
Document establishing current U.S. government system
Constitution
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Established judicial review
Required colonists to pay tax on printed materials
Stamp Act
Colonial protest where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
First U.S. government document; created weak central government
Articles of Confederation
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to former enslaved people
Secession
Southern states' withdrawal from the Union
Gave British East India Company monopoly on tea sales
Tea Act
Conflict between Britain and France over North American territory
French and Indian War
First ten amendments protecting individual rights
Bill of Rights
15th Amendment
Gave voting rights to African American men
Compromise of 1850
Series of bills addressing slavery in territories gained from Mexican-American War
Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
Townshend Act
Colonial meeting to address British actions
First Continental Congress
System dividing power between national and state governments
Federalism
Sharecropping
System where farmers worked land for a share of crops
Colonization
The process of establishing control over another territory and sending people to settle there
Required colonists to house and supply British soilders
Quartering Act
First military engagements of Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
Process of formally approving the Constitution
Ratification
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896 case upholding "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Upheld "separate but equal" doctrine