Leaders of the Early Nation
Issues with Immigration
Native Americans
Foreign Policy
100

First president of the United States

George Washington

100

These people believed in protecting American culture and jobs from mass immigration

Nativists

100

The Native Americans sided with this country during the French American War

France

100

Maintained neutrality of the United States in an ongoing French and British conflict, in the year 1793

Proclamation of Neutrality 1793

200

President during the Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson

200

First legislation that restricted immigration into the United States

Chinese Exclusion Act

200

The forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homes further west

The Trails of Tears

200

Warning to European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Americas

Monroe Doctrine

300

Founded the first Bank of America

Alexander Hamilton

300

Irish were migrating to the United States to escape this ongoing problem in Ireland

Potato Famine

300

Native Americans were restricted to designated plots of land in this system

The Reservation System

300

Treaty that ended the Mexican American War

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

This president gave a speech called the Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

400

Parts of cities with high concentrations of minority groups because of political, social, religious, environmental, or economic pressure

Ghettos

400

Forcing Native Americans to go to schools and practice American culture are examples of

Assimilation

400

Treaty that ended the American Revolution

Treaty of Paris 1783

500

President during the Era of Good Feelings

James Monroe

500
Idea that people became powerful in society because they were innately better, stemming from ideas of natural selection

Social Darwinism

500

This act divided Native American reservation land to be given to individual families

The Dawes Act

500

Prohibited American trade with France and Britain

Non-Intercouse Act