The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Ireland and Germany
What was the main result of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
This industrial tycoon used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry.
John Rockefeller (Standard Oil)
The first permanent colony established by the British
Jamestown
What was first Constitution of the United States called?
Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)
Which political party believed in a "loose" interpretation of the Constitution?
Federalist Party
Bill included California entering the Union as a free state, defining Texas's border in return for debt relief, establishing New Mexico and Utah as official territories, and finally banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia in exchange for a new fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
Which supreme court case established the principle of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established proportional representation of the states in the House of Representatives but equal representation in the Senate. Solved the dispute over the adoption of the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan.
The Great Compromise
1820 legislation admitted ____ as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36ยบ 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
Missouri Compromise
Reconstruction amendment that guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Example of a law the federal government passed that encouraged westward expansion (multiple answers accepted)
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Middle Colonies
Idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
Republican Motherhood
This invention reflected the technological progression of the market revolution, as automated machinery made the production of a certain cash crop more profitable- ultimately leading to the expansion of slavery
Cotton Gin
As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Kansas and Nebraska voters were allowed to decide for themselves whether to become free or slave states, also known as this
Popular Sovereignty
Political party established in 1892 that advocated for agrarian and industrial reform, outlined in their agenda "Omaha Platform"
a violent conflict between Native American tribes, and English colonists in New England from 1675 to 1676, fueled by growing tensions over land encroachment and the colonists' expanding settlements
King Phillip's War
Thomas Jefferson controversially signed the ________ and __________ Resolutions in which he argued that states had the power to nullify laws that were harmful to them
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
This state's attempt to nullify a federal tariff in 1832 exposed the growing tensions between states rights and federal power
South Carolina
Supreme Court decision (1857) that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and legally defined African Americans as second-class citizens
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Policy that allowed the government to divide up land on reservations for private ownership, an attempt to assimilate Native American Tribes
Dawe's Act
Colonial uprising in Virginia in 1676 where disgruntled frontier settlers, including many former indentured servants, rebelled against the colonial government; this rebellion highlighted the growing social tensions and led to reliance on slave labor
Bacon's Rebellion