Constitiution
1st Amendment
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery, African Americans were free to move wherever they wanted
Manifest Destiny
The US desire to own land from coast to coast, James K Polk, causes: 1. land=wealth, 2. population boom
Intolerable Acts
The British response to the Boston Tea Party, increased tension between the colonists and British
Citizens must serve on juries to determine the verdict and vote in elections
Citizen Responsibilities
Articles of Confederation
first government, Congress can declare war and negotiate treaties, no executive branch (no president)
Union capture of Mississippi River during the Civil War- divided the Confederacy in half
Vicksburg
Transcontinental Railroad
encouraged settlement of the West, opened new markets to sell goods to price of products decreased, Irish and Chinese Immigrants built it
Mercantilism
British controlled colonial trade and angered colonists
Free Enterprise
Economy driven by profit and competition
Northwest Ordinance
Law establishing a way for admitting new states to the US, territories govern themselves
Ruled slaves were property and not citizens, later the 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all African Americans
Dred Scott Vs Stanford
land US acquired after the US-Mexican War as stated in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Proclamation of 1763
law forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mts and angered colonists
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Established National Bank, Pay off war debt, pass whiskey tax, protective tariff
checks and balances
each branch of government has some power over the other two branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy
Nullification Crisis
problem overt if the state of South Carolina had the right to nullify (overturn) a federal law, argument over states rights vs federal rights
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness- established in the Declaration of Independence
Unalienable Rights
Quakers
1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania
6th amendment
Geography caused the country to divide economically-
North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the civil war
Sectionalism
Took control after Lincoln's death, punished Confederate leaders and southerners for Civil War
Radical Republicans
Turning point of the American Revolution- France joined with Patriots/colonists
Saratoga
people who worked to end slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas