Reformers
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education who created a public school system
Horace Mann
was a leading advocate against slavery and supporter of women’s rights
famously delivered the speech “Ain’t I a Woman”
Sojourner Truth
Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review. This means that the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws passed by Congress unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison
How did the United States acquire the piece of land from France known as the Louisiana Territory?
$15 Million
Treaty
President who died 32 days into office.
He was an 1811 hero from the Battle of Tippecanoe.
William Henry Harrison
social reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833
published The Liberator, a widely-read abolitionist newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison
ruled that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land
Worcester v. Georgia
How did the United States acquire the piece of land known as the Mexican Cession in 1848?
Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
To Mexico: $30 million and forgave $3 million in debt
Restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States following the XYZ Affair.
Increased the requirements to seek citizenship and allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens
Alien and Sedition Acts
a leader of the women’s suffrage movement who worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which portrayed slaves as humans
Harriet Beecher Stowe
upheld slavery in United States territories
denied the legality of black citizenship in America
declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional
declared slaves to be property
Dred Scott v. Sanford
1846
What did the British and Americans decide to do about the boundary of Oregon?
Extend the 49th parallel line already separating British Canada and the US
River boundary between Louisiana and Texas
Sabine River
Authors of the Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
an escaped slave from Maryland
escaped slave
one of the most prominent African American abolitionists
published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper
Frederick Douglass
ruled that the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, including navigation, under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, thus invalidating a New York state law that granted a monopoly on steamboat navigation
Gibbons v. Ogden
1819
How did the United States acquire Florida, the "heel" and the "toe" of the Louisiana "boot".
Adams- Onis Treaty
First governor of Louisiana (the state)
American journalist, editor, writer, literary critic, and women's rights advocate; associated with Transcendentalist Movement
Margaret Fuller
valued peace, women's rights, and opposed slavery.
first religious movement to condemn slavery and would not allow their members to own slaves
helped fugitive slaves reach freedom through the Underground Railroad
Quakers
Established the supremacy of the federal government over the states
The court ruled that Congress has the power to create a national bank and that states cannot tax the federal government
McCulloch v. Maryland
1853
What was the small piece of land acquired by the United States for $10 million dollars in order to continue a railroad in the south?
Gadsden Purchase
What did Amendments 13, 14 and 15 accomplish.
State what each one did.
14th Amendment (1868):Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
15th Amendment (1870):Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, aiming to enfranchise African American men.