Unit 1
Placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea.
The Townshend Acts
A series of essays that defended and explained the Constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the national government.
Federalist Papers
biggest challenge as Secretary of Treasury was to get the nation out of debt.
Alexander Hamilton
caused the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation. (Steamboat, Steam Engine-railroad, canals, plow)
Transportation Revolution
Enslaved African who sued for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state made him a free man.
Dred Scott
Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists making British tea cheaper than colonial tea.
Tea Act
Meeting held in Philadelphia in which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution
Constitutional Convention
Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.
tariff protecting a country's economy:
Protective Tariff
Famous abolitionist. Seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, to encourage a slave revolt
John Brown
first tax (on all paper products) imposed on Americans by the British.
Stamp Act
Uprising of Massachusetts farmers to protest high taxes, debt, and foreclosures.
Shay's Rebellion
first president. Great leader. Set many precedents.
George Washington
was invented by Eli Whitney and it removed the seeds from cotton, leading to an increase in the production of cotton and an increase in slavery.
Cotton Gin
said that voters could choose whether or not to allow slavery in those states.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
British soldiers fire into an unarmed crowd of colonist killing
Boston Massacre
The first central government of the United States.
Articles of Confederation
The group that actually elects the president based upon the popular vote in each state.
Electoral College
was when the factories replaced many handmade products. (Steam engines)
Industrial Revolution
were people that wanted to end slavery in America.
Abolitionists
Colonial protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British Tea ships and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
the idea that political authority belongs to the people.
Respect for individual liberties
was the first national bank in U.S.history- created to provide security for the U.S. economy.
Bank of U.S.
experienced rapid urbanization and industrialization (many move to the cities in the north for jobs)
The North
Escaped slave who wrote a biography about his life as a slave and founded the abolitionist newspaper the North Star
Frederick Douglas