Presidents
was the first president of the United States, was also a Founding Father, and he also served during the American Revulution.
George Washington
Was an American Abolitionist, born into slavery, she escaped and helped over 70,000 slaves escape with her creation of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to the mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada.
Underground Railroad
was a series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle regional disagreements over the state of American slavery.
Compromise of 1850.
the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
Scott v. Sandford
Was the 2nd President of the United States, before his presidency he was a leader of the American Revolution.
John Adams
Was an American Abolitionist, after he escaped slavery his self, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
Fredrick Douglas
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.
Manifest Destiny
was a federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.
Missouri Compromise
A case that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land.
Worcester v. Georgia
Was the third President of the United States, he was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence .
Thomas Jefferson
was an American journalist, he helped and supported anti-slavery societies. He also was a abolitionist and a social reformer.
William Lloyd Garrison.
also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States.
Alien and Sedition
Was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, which was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution
Gibbons v odgen
Was the 4th president of the United States. He was hailed as the Father of the Constitution.
James Madison.
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave act.
was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
Trail of Tears
was a 19th century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions.
Jacksonian Democracy
was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Was the fifth President of the United states, was known for his negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase. And also known for the Monroe Doctrine.
James Monroe
the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840.
Industrial Revulution.
was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States.
Andrew Jackson