Colonization
Economy based on Agriculture, using the Plantation System and Slavery to grow cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Reform movement that fought against the abuse/consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Proved that our new government under the Constitution could enforce the laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
System where Andrew Jackson gave government jobs to his supporters; led to unqualified individuals in Government.
What is the Spoils System?
Set of laws passed in Southern States meant to restrict the Rights of Freedmen in the South.
What were the Black Codes?
Economy based on Agriculture, Ranching, and Mining for precious metals.
What is the Western Economy?
A refuge/ save place for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Fought for better Prison Reform and separate facilities for the Mentally Ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws Unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
Federal tax hated by the SOUTH as it made trading and goods more expensive.
helped the north and hurt the south.
Will lead to the Nullification Crisis.
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
Amendment that Abolished or ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Freedmen and Runaway slaves were at constant risk of being captured because of this act.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
1st Anti-Slavery group in the Colonies.
Who were the Quakers?
Group focused on ending slavery in the United States.
Who were Abolitionist?
Argued over how the United States should develop economically and the foundation of a National Bank?
(Two Individuals)
Who were Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?
Andrew Jackson hated this; he moved all its money into State Banks and did not renew its charter with the hopes of ending it.
What was the National Bank?
Group that took over Reconstruction; passed policies intended to help Freedmen in the South; also wanted to punish the South for the Civil War.
Who where the Radical Republicans?
Stated that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not use the courts to sue.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford Case?
Economic system that state that the colonies are there to serve the Mother Country and did not allow colonist the freedom to trade with others.
What was Mercantilism?
School that focused on painting Natural Landscapes.
What was the Hudson River School?
Prevented further trading with European Nations; intended to hurt them but hurt our own economy.
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?
Case that Andrew Jackson ignored and led to the removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Amendment that grants citizenship and equal protections through DUE PROCESS.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Kept the balance pf power between FREE and SLAVE States in Congress; established the 36' 30 Line; Missouri came in as a Slave State and Maine as a Free State.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
1st model of Representative Legislature in the Colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses (1619)?
Led to Social Reform, as individuals were inspired to improve themselves and society.
What was the 2nd Great Awakening?
Favored Strong Central government, and an economy based on Industry and manufacturing.
Who were the Federalist?
Signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830; intended to take land from Native Tribes and give it to the White Man for Agriculture and other needs.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The South was divided into 5 Military Districts for this reason.
What is, to protect the rights of Freedmen in the South?
Violence in the Kansas Territory over the issue of Slavery as both Pro and Anti Slavery groups fought to control the territory.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
Established by Roger Williams for Religious Toleration.
What is Rhode Island?
Book that told the Truths about slavery; will create greater tensions between Northerners and Southerners over slavery; written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Supreme Court Case that established that ONLY the Federal Government can regulate INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Issue of whether a state can declare a federal law unconstitutional.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
A system of labor that left Freedmen and poor whites in the South in an "Endless Cycle" of debt.
What was Sharecropping?
Agreement that brought in:
California as Free State
Ended the Slave Trade in Washington D.C.
Enforced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Colonies will develop Representative and Self-Governments due to this.
What is the Great Distance between the Colonies and Britain?
1st Women's Rights Convention that took place in New York; called for equality in all aspects of life and suffrage for women.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?
Stated that there would be "NO MORE EUROPEAN COLONIZATION OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE".
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Increased suffrage/voting and participation by the Common Man in politics happened during Jackson's Presidency.
This was known as.
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Freedmen are able to bring the Republican Party into power in the South because of this Amendment?
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, gave people in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories this over the issue of slavery.
What is "Popular Sovereignty"?