Leaders of the early nation
The first president of the U.S
Who is George Washington?
Led by planter Nathaniel Bacon. Initially in response to governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect them from Indian attacks.
What is the Bacon's rebellion?
Established in 1862. Law that gave acres for a cheap price to help land be accessible to hundreds of Westward moving settlers.
What is the Homestead act?
Set of wars between American Indian tribes and the US.
What are the American Indian wars?
Signed by two countries to end the revolutionary war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The president who fired everyone in office and replaced them with his friends.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Involved women and their right to vote in elections.
What is the Women Suffrage movement?
Nativist political party started by Lewis Charles Levin in the 1850's. Disliked immigrants and emerged in response to the arrival of large amounts of immigrants. Originally started as a secret society.
What is the Know-Nothing party?
Established boundaries for the territory of each tribe. Designated boundaries to Native American tribes of the west.
What is the Reservation System?
Prevented war between the United states and an European country. Resolved many issues including moving their soldiers out of the Western frontier.
What is Jay's Treaty?
He established a three part system to help improve American economy.
Who is Henry Clay?
The uprise of more than 50 South Carolina blacks along the Stono River. Also known as the Stono Rebellion.
What is the South Carolina slave revolt?
Forced migration of 15,000 Cherokee Indians from Georgia and Alabama to Indian territory.
What is the Trail of tears?
Passed by congress providing the migration of all Indian tribes East of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian removal act?
Reopened trade with all nations of the world, except Britain and France.
What is the non-intercourse act?
Known for being responsible for the peace between France and the U.S.
Who is John Adams?
This social movement dedicated to promoting moderation and eventually the abstinence of the consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
Group of people who were against immigrants entering the country.
What are Nativists?
Dissolved many tribes as legal entities and wiped out tribal ownership of land. If Indians behaved as "good white settlers", they could get full title to their holdings, as well as citizenship.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
Signed in Paris, an agreement to formally dissolve the U.S. treaty with France.
What is the convention of 1800?
Former Chief Justice of the United States. One of the most influential justices to ever sit on the Supreme Court.
Who is John Marshall?
Where movements such as those for public schools and abolition emerged.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The first attempt to stop mass migration to the West Coast.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Series of clashes in Illinois and Wisconsin between American forces and an Indian Chief who unsuccessfully tried to reclaim territory lost under the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
What is the Black Hawk war of 1832?
This document proclaimed the governments official neutrality in the widening conflict between France and Great Britain.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation?