Key Terms
Great Awakening?
Spiritual, and religious revival within the 13 colonies.
George Washington
The first U.S President and general of the army.
McCulloch V Marland
Strengthened Federal Authority and upheld the conditionality of the U.S bank, Maryland did not have the power to tax the bank.
Tripolitan War
Four-year conflict between U.S navy and North African Nation , tripelo over piracy.
Seneca Falls Convention
1st women rights convention launched women rights suffarage.
Boston Tea Party
Protest against East Indian British Company by dumping tea in the Boston harbor.
Fredrick Douglass(1818-1895)
Black abolitionist, and writer, wrote the autobiography, Narrative life of Fredrick Douglass.
Manbury V. Madison
Supreme Court has the final say in constitutionality
Treaty of Guadalupe-higalgo
A treaty between U.S. and Mexico, ended the war by Mexico giving land from texas to Oregon for 18.25 million.
Missouri Compromise
Allowed Missouri as a slave state but prohibited any territories from the Lousiana Purchase to be slave states.
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's pamphlet urged colonists to declare independence ane make a republican government.
Stone Wall Jackson
Confederate General, led troops to win Bull Run, Protected Virginia's Shenandoah from Union, died by friendly fire.
Hudson River School
American Artists Movement that produced romantic renditions of local landscapes.
The hatred of immigrants in U.S
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Distillers mad at excise tax, put down by the new central government.
Articles of Confederation
Booker T Washington
Advocated for vocational education for African Americans who were not economically stable.
Slave Narratives
18th and 19th-century accounts of former slaves, during the great depression, the works progress administration recorded oral histories of slaves.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned Chinese Immigration.
Wilmot Proviso
Amendment that prohibits slavery from the land gained by Mexico, which failed.
Neutrality Proclamation
Issued by George Washington in response to the British and France Conflict.
Ida B Wells
African American Journalist who initiated the anti-lynching campaign and woman suffrage.
Dred Scott V Sandford
U.S supreme court case that ruled that African-Americans were not citizens of the U.S
Big Sister Policy
Foreign Policy that rallied latin american nations under American leadership to open latin markets.
Jim Crow
System of racial segregation, equal but separate ideals for whites and Blacks.