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The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
1676. This rebellion caused a shift from indentured servants to a desire for chattel slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
During the era of imperialism, Roosevelt built a canal in this Central American country?
What is Panama?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
1965. A race riot in Los Angeles. Several people were killed. Three-hundred race riots followed.
The belief that westward expansion was inevitable and ordained by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This pamphlet was influential in convincing many Americans that the colonies should declare their independence from Britain
What is common sense?
This law required that a stamp be placed on all paper goods in the colonies, beginning the calls for taxation without representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
The small state proposal put forth during the Philadelphia convention proposing equal representation by state, regardless of population
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This court case determined that blacks were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law.
Dredd Scott v Sanford
Man-made waterway completed in 1825 that helped connect an entire region of the United States and transport goods Easter/West.
1904. The U.S. reserved the right to intervene in Latin America affairs, presumably to keep European powers from collecting debts by force.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The name given to heated relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII. Several confrontations occurred, including the blockade of Berlin, KoreanWar, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam War
What is The Cold War?
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.
What is the temperance Movement?
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
What is the enlightenment?
The order that prohibited Americans from settling past the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
What is the bill of rights?
Garrison, Douglass and the Greimke Sisters
What are abolitionists?
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1787. Set the rules for achieving territorial status and then statehood. Outlawed slavery in its area.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
US to European powers: If you stay out of my business, I'll stay out of yours!
Monroe Doctrine
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1798. Three men from America were sent to persuade the French to stop harassing American ships. Each American was met by a French advisor to solicit bribes. All three Americans refused. Public resentment of the French ran high when this incident became public knowledge
X, Y, Z Affair
The non violent protests found across the Southern states that saw young college age people fill in lunch counters waiting to be served.
What are the sit ins?
Taxes imposed in 1767 on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass & tea.
What are the Townshend Acts
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France lost Canadian colonies and claims to land east of the Mississippi River as a result of the signing of this (must include year)
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763
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This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays Rebellion?
What is the raid on harpers ferry?
Which President ran on the platform of expansion and brought the US into a war with Mexico? (Mexican-American War)
President Polk
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This outlawed trade with all foreign countries to try and pressure Britain.
What is the Embargo of 1807?
1832-1833. Resulted from the passage of the "Tariff of Abominations" in 1828. South Carolina ordered customs officials to stop collection taxes at the Port of Charleston. Andrew Jackson, in turn,
issued a Force Bill giving him the power to use federal troops to collect taxes
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Sported a long list of demands that included the free coinage of silver, government ownership of the railroads, telegraphs, and telephone lines, a graduated income tax, the direct election of U.S. senators, and the use of initiative, referendum, and recall.
What is the Populism?
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1921. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secured the transfer of several naval oil reserves to his jurisdiction.
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
This is a representation of the peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democrat-Republicans.
What is the Revolution/Election of 1800?
This group supported a stronger national government and ratifying the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
The failure of the Turner revolt led to the passage of stricter these by many slave state legislatures
What are slave codes?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
sentiment that revered women as homemakers, the cultivators of good republican values in young citizens
What is Republican motherhood?
the creation of the Proclamation Line of
1763, which prohibited white settlements to the west of the Appalachian Mountains created this rebellion
What is Pontiac's Rebellon?
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She led the movement to Stop the ERA amendment in the 1970's
Phillis Schafly
These group of writers were disillusioned with the consumerism and materialism
What is the Lost Generation?