Period 3 (Events and Documents)
Thomas Paine wrote this in hopes to bring more colonists and loyalists to the revolutionist cause.
Common Sense
Compromise at the Constitutional Convention regarding how to elect the president. They cast votes as representatives of their state.
Electoral College
This law provided for the immediate forced resettlement of American Indians living in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and present-day Illinois.
Indian Removal Act
During the Era of Good Feelings, the Democratic-Republicans fragmented and became this party that supported Jackson.
Democratic Party
An assembly of delegates from across the Thirteen colonies. It passed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
Second Continental Congress
A 1795 treaty in which 12 American Indian tribes ceded vast areas of the Old Northwest to the federal government, including most of what is now Indiana and Ohio.
Treaty of Greenville
This group was initially against the 1878 Constitution with a lack of a Bill of Rights.
The Anti-Federalists
1803 ruling stated Congress cannot pass laws that are contrary to the Constitution, and that it is the judicial system’s job to interpret what the Constitution permits.
Marbury v. Madison
The supporter of a political figure or cause, to the point that it biases their actions.
Partisan
A Virginian and Democratic-Republican, they helped secure the Louisiana Purchase and during the War of 1812, and served as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War.
James Monroe
The Quartering Act and The Boston Port Bill were 2 acts included in which term used to describe the acts from British Parliament, starting in 1774.
The Intolerable Acts
Founding Father, co-author of the Federalist Papers, First Secretary of the Treasury. They set out to repair the nation’s credit and overall financial health.
Alexander Hamilton
To prevent cheap British goods from flooding the market and injuring American manufacturing, Congress passed this and was the first of its kind.
Tariff of 1816
They pushed for a spoils system to reward supporters, opposed abolitionism, killed the Second Bank of the United States, and forcefully quashed South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis.
Andrew Jackson
Advocates for ending slavery.
Abolitionists
Laws passed by Congress in 1789. The Alien Acts increased the residency requirement for citizenship from 5 to 14 years and gave the president power to detain and/or deport enemy aliens during wartime.
Alien and Sedition Acts
New Jersey statesman, a Supreme Court Justice, and signer of the United States Constitution.
William Paterson
Following unsuccessful economic sanctions under the Jefferson administration, the Monroe administration was pressured into declaring war by Congressional War Hawks against Britain known as this.
War of 1812
Founding Father, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and cemented the concept of judicial review, making the judicial branch coequal to the executive and legislative.
John Marshall
A major political scandal. Agents of French Foreign Minister demanded a large sum of money as a loan and an additional bribe from an American diplomatic delegation.
XYZ Affair
Justified the raising of a professional colonial military force and urged King George III a second time to consider colonial grievances.
Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms
A Founding Father, President of the Second Continental Congress, First Chief Justice, and early leader of Federalist Party.
John Jay
The United States had enjoyed the right of deposit at the Port of New Orleans under this 1795 treaty with Spain, but in 1798 the Spanish revoked the treaty.
Pinckney's Treaty
Born out of opposition to Jacksonian Democrats. Favored economic nationalism, a strong central government, and rechartering the national bank.
Whig Party
A conservative wing of the Democratic-Republican party that wished to restrict the role of the federal government.
Quid Party