Early America
The British Parliament imposed the first direct tax on the colonists with this act. The act required payment of a tax on each use of parchment or vellum, such as licenses, publications, and legal papers.
What is the Stamp Act?
An armed uprising in western Massachussetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions in early 1787.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
Wrote a collection of essays known as the Federalist Papers in order to persuade New York voters to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787–1788. James Madison and John Jay also contributed.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
What is a Chimera?
The colonists considered themselves citizens in this empire after the French and Indian War.
What is the British Empire?
Congress did not have the power to tax.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Leader of the Democratic-Republican party who believed in representing farmers and the "common man".
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
National power, trade, resources, new technologies
What are positive effects of the impact of Manifest Destiny?
The decision in this Supreme Court Case established the right of the courts to determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Boycotts, newsletters, songs, pamphlets, civil disobedience, petitions, and propaganda are all examples of. . .
How did colonists resist new taxes imposed on by the British?
The legislative branch has the ability to create laws. The president has the power to eliminate that law.
What is a veto?
Won the Election of 1844. He heavily supported the idea of Manifest Destiny.
Who was James K. Polk?
Violent displacement, cultural loss, death of Native Americans, expansion of slavery, sectionalism, and the Civil War.
What are negative effects of Manifest Destiny?
This event paved the way for so many other important events, from the expansion and dispossession of indigenous people, the California Gold Rush, and American Civil War. It added the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming to the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This region was known for having a warm climate, fertile soil, and long growing seasons, fostering a plantation economy focused on cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo. Labor was heavily reliant on enslaved labor.
What were the Southern colonies?
In order for the Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, representatives from the Constitutional Convention needed to seek approval from their respectives states.
What is ratification?
This person was one of the "Midnight Judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office.
Who was William Marbury?
Issued during a revolution against the Mexican government that began in October 1835 following a series of government edicts including the dissolution of state legislatures, disarmament of state militias, and abolition of the Constitution of 1824.
What is Texas independence?
This legislation admitted Missouri 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 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
This region was known for immense cultural and religious diversity, a "breadbasket" economy based on wheat farming, and a, moderate, temperate climate.
What were the Middle Colonies?
It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States. And it specifies that “the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
What is the Bill of Rights?
Oversaw the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Editor and columnist who articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the transition to democracy.
John O'Sullivan
This act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What is the Indian Removal Act?